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Saturday I saw V for Vendetta. I loved it.

There is lit­tle I can say about this that I haven’t already heard:

Gay anar­chist ter­ror­ist blows shit up. Fascist gov­ern­ment born of con­ser­v­a­tive Christian death-cultism and a multi­na­tional phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal plot col­lapses. The dis­ap­peared have their day.

The movie is Rorschach, like Team America. What you say about it reveals yourself.

Alan Moore describes it as not rev­o­lu­tion­ary enough, hav­ing sur­gi­cally removed most of his novel’s Anarchism in favor of more vague ref­er­ences to peren­ni­ally neb­u­lous “freedom.”

Naturally, con­ser­v­a­tive, polit­i­cally active Christians push­ing vir­u­lently homo­pho­bic mes­sages seem to have a prob­lem with the movie. Go fig­ure. Perhaps most hilar­i­ous is the fact that today’s Tom Delay histri­on­ics were pretty directly inspired by V for Vendetta.

That alone makes it the best cor­po­rate movie of the last 7 years.