down with genocidal nazi tory boys

Rating: 3/10 (18 July 2006)

According to this film the war on terror will be the catalyst for a fascist take-over by the conservative party who will take from us everything we hold dear namely our freedom and our lipstick lesbians (& not necessarily in that order). Britain is a mature democracy don't believe this guff. At the worst every now and then we read the daily mail and get worked up about immigration & paedophiles. To 'argue'  and this is a massively unsubtle polemic  that we would so easily be led down the road of fascism is both an insult to our capacity to think for ourselves and a distortion of the reality that the social changes /values this film seeks to defend and the war on terror it attacks have both been advanced by our current labour government (ok not true of the USA but the film isn't about USA).
Personally I think its dishonest and manipulative when writers try to shore up their own particular values & beliefs by trying to associate anything critical of those values / beliefs with a slide into totalitarianism & genocide. However they did get one thing right: in a country like Britain the only way you could achieve any kind of totalitarianism is through manipulation of the media. And exactly how conservative is the media in this country? I mean if you ask the question who exactly is controlling what we can and can't say, and therefore what we can and can't think well I'd say that honour belongs to the likes of the Warshawskis and the Islington set who made this film. So if you like being told what to think, and made what to feel, you'll enjoy this film and feel refreshed in your right-on credentials. But if you don't you'll be sure to hold up two fingers to V and his pointy beard.