tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14665637.post114382374021288609..comments2023-10-31T13:15:14.564-02:30Comments on An Ontarian in Newfoundland: Remember remember the Fifth of November ...Chris in NFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06064023598020493124noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14665637.post-23012861444932391852009-11-21T11:38:41.150-03:302009-11-21T11:38:41.150-03:30Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium? ...Who knows where to download XRumer 5.0 Palladium? <br />Help, please. All recommend this program to effectively advertise on the Internet, this is the best program!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14665637.post-1145174412292157792006-04-16T05:30:00.000-02:302006-04-16T05:30:00.000-02:30Hi, ChrisI enjoyed reading your thoughts on "V for...Hi, Chris<BR/><BR/>I enjoyed reading your thoughts on "V for Vendetta." I'd like to gently argue a couple points, however. :) <BR/><BR/>As for the film acting as a direct indictment of Bush, I would have to say that it did indeed do this. One of the beauties of "V" (the movie) was that it spared no one. <BR/><BR/>Just as you mention in your post, the *people* *allowed* themselves to be enslaved by such a regime, and it is precisely that which is happening in the U.S. right now. <BR/><BR/>Concentration camps? I found it fascinating that the film's makers used a person of Asian decent in those scenes. (Please correct me if I'm wrong on this; it's been a while since I've seen the movie.) <BR/><BR/>My first thought during those scenes was of the former U.S. internment of Japanese-American citizens during WWII. The suggestion of internment camps (in my opinion) served as a message to warn us (the audience) of the danger of allowing hysteria to guide our actions. "Throw off the fear," as you say. Yes!<BR/><BR/>*****<BR/><BR/>Interesting that you think of the Civil Rights movement in the U.S. as non-violent. <BR/><BR/>*****<BR/><BR/>Evey's torture meant something different to me, as well. It reinforced the idea that V's modus operandi was *not* the ideal way to bring about revolution/change. Through Evey, the film shows us how violent tactics hurt people - even the ones we love. <BR/><BR/>Also, please remember that *V*, not everyone, was the one who held Guy Fawkes as a hero and martyr, which once again emphasizes the mind-set of V. <BR/><BR/>The bottom line of it all was that the concepts of freedom, liberty, and justice will never die, despite the nature of the bearer of those concepts.<BR/><BR/>*****<BR/><BR/>When you say "language and symbols reified and emptied of referents in the service of power," I'd sure like to know to what you refer. Could you mean, for example, how the American flag has come to be a symbol of imperial power rather than liberty? Well, that could just be my biased thinking. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, if you'd like to discuss it further, I'm at <BR/>spongebarb451@msn.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com