Good Movie-- hampered by political propaganda

Rating: 7/10 (5 November 2006)

What astounds me about people who "define" totalitarian governments is that there is always a connotation that totalitarian governments are usually conservative because they support a strong national defense. This is always false, as totalitarian governments usually arise out of socialist/liberal governments. Think the Soviet Union, Nazism, African dictatorships, all of those governments arise out of workers complaints. In fact the only conservative government I can think of at all that was totalitarian was apartheid South Africa. The goal of conservatism is to eliminate government from life as much as possible, hardly a tenet of totalitarianism. The one job that conservatives do believe the federal government does have is to protect people with a strong national defense. Also, the assumption that Christians want to outlaw homosexuality and other religions and rule the government is absolutely ridiculous, and why is it that Christianity gets bashed but Islam gets a free ride? Remember, it isn't Christians who are forcing women to wear barquas and performing female circumcision on them. It isn't Christians who are murdering people who refuse to convert to their religion. I understand that there are Christians who have no grace and mercy, and who do nothing put point their fingers from their pulpits into cameras and broadcast that image across the world as the face of Christianity, but that's not a real picture of a Christian. Vandetta portrays Christianity as doing this to people, and that's not true at all. It's sympathetic view of homosexuality and the gay movement is a pure sob story for the gay left. If people choose to live that lifestyle, that's their business, but it's hard to think that this is an accurate view of homosexuality, especially when results regarding questions of the monogamy in their relationships are concerned.
Indeed, V for Vandetta is an excellent adaptation of Alan Moore's graphic novel based upon the fears of the Maggie Thatcher government. It has a unique balance of action, excitement and even some romance. Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman give excellent performances and we feel for both characters. Well done. Bravo... Brilliant anti-conservative propaganda packaged in a bow of a nice movie!