V for Vicissitude - For using lies to tell the truth can be dangerous business

Rating: 9/10 (20 March 2006)

The Devil is in the details. Who can watch this film and not be moved? It is everything that true Art should be - I believe that a good movie makes you think. And this flick will bore into your brain...
Truth is found in the distinctions between fact and fiction, reality and our versions of it. While I thoroughly enjoyed the movie I feel that there was a debate raging in my mind while watching it, for I am a critical (in a good sense, as in "movie critic") and aware (I will not be taken for a ride and hosed at the same time) movie viewer.
So the questions we must ask of the Wachowski brother's and their film are thus:
Q: 1. Who is more likely in the near future of 2020 (about the time frame for the "present tense" of this film) to take over the government of a western power?
Note: The Wachowski chose to have the Totalitarians take over Britain which can hardly be considered a very powerful power right now, yet they currently serve as an intermediary between US (in the US) and Others. While the Utopian English Empire has homage (film referencing other film and art) to the works of 1984 and (more importantly) Brave New World et al. is nice. And the Brits have a historic place in the cause of freedom (Magna Carta, Moore and the Wachowski's own twisted major reference to Fawkes, The US Revolutionary War, WW II etc.) I believe that the writers choice was meant to divert attention from the US - so that they could take some shots in a backhanded way. Hey that is their prerogative and it makes for good drama...
A: As we are currently functioning under the dawn of modern terrorism in this world there is a greater likelihood that Islamic extremists will take over government power in the west than any other group, no matter their ambitions. I can back this up left and right - I guarantee it. If you are going to challenge this you are blind...
Q: 2. What is the greater lie, White Conservative Despots using religion to subvert an entire nation or ignoring the history of both White and all ethnic groups Progressive Socialistic Absolutist tendencies to torture and manipulation?
A: "Have you forgotten the hills of Verboten, where Auschwitz rests forever guests in chambers none would choose." The National Socialists were - yup socialists... and ATHEISTIC (please don't even try to promote some sick and twisted version of Hitler the Good Anti-Semite Catholic - that is garbage and you should know better)... I could go on, but I won't. The Wachowski's confidently forget these minor "details" in favor of a American is bad, Christianity is bad - down with the intolerants (because they don't agree with us) type of thinking. Hey, I'm not homosexual and I wouldn't promote it - but it is vile to portray haters of homosexuality as White Males when the Islamic terrorists who adhere to the Koran are the ones doing away with "infidels and their versions of sexuality" in these countries. These are harsh topics to come to terms with but if the Wachowski's can bring them up then we can sure as hell talk about them. Don't tread on me and don't shut me down... If you want to behave as you want then you must allow me to behave as I choose --- and where government exists is where the two shall meet and we can agree to disagree peaceably... This, is FREEDOM FOREVER, as we will know it here on earth.
This film portrays the freedom fighter well. I'd say I tend toward the Anarchist rather than the Totalitarian - because "people should not be afraid of their government, Government should be afraid of its people." See Constitution And. 2. While much of this movie flys in the face of reality "when you're a Buddhist..."
When you're a Buddhist You have the whole world before you When you've found the one The only one to love and adore you And when you learn the sigh of it The long of it, the cry of it Life begins when EVERYONE wins And you're a Buddhist and no one cares...
My apologies Brown / Victor Schertzinger / Andrew Acquarulo Ackers - and Ms. Billie Holiday.