Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper pens a great article on why zealots like Drudge and Newsweek miss the boat on this movie, big time. I guess reading and researching aren't part of Republican-slanting publications.
Headline from Monday's Drudge Report: "In the Wachowskis' bizarre V FOR VENDETTA, the hero--yes, hero--wants to blow up London."
Technically accurate. Journalistically? Wildly misleading. Imagine that.
The Drudge headline is a link to a story/review posted on Time.com. The story has this lead-in:
"The directors of 'The Matrix' make a movie where the hero is a faceless terrorist trying to blow up London. Yes, you read that right."
A reviewer for Newsweek chimes in: "The film may spark interesting debates--about the nature of terrorism and governments, about the inalienable rights of artists to shock and provoke--but what we're dealing with is a lackluster comic-book movie that thinks 'terrorist' is a synonym for 'revolutionary.'"
The movie is actually a "what if" story: what the world would look like if Germany had won World War II.
What it's not is this "terrorism-supporting diatribe" that has most GOP mouthpieces foaming.
The story is of a hero who takes on an oppressive government who labels him a terrorist. Free speech, homosexuality, and artistic expression have been outlawed--citizens must abide by a curfew; and the streets are controlled by secret police.
I guess I could see where this movie would makes the Neo-cons a bit anxious. There's something strikingly familiar about it. I thought for a second that I was describing Bush's Republican-controlled America.
I guess I got the two confused. My mistake...just another case of life imitating art.
Tags: [V for Vendetta], [Drude Report], [movies that promote terrorism], [rebellion in movies]
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