But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, killed and forgotten. But 400 years later an idea can still change the world. I have witnessed firsthand the power of ideas. I’ve seen people kill in the name of them and die defending them. But you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it or hold it. Ideas do not bleed. They do not feel pain. They do not love. And it is not an idea that I miss. It is a man. A man that made me remember the fifth of November. A man that I will never forget. – V for Vendetta.
since 2009, i’ve watched v for vendetta on the 5th of november. i just finished 2017′s re-watching and i’m nauseous at how much closer the world is to the film now than it has been in previous years: all the talk of the impact of words, dehumanizing people instantly by branding them “terrorist”, the rise of the alt-right via a man with no regard for political process, linking anything “bad” to a specific group to foster compliance from a scared public and its terrifying cos vfv isn’t even the first cautionary speculative fiction out there. there’s at least 100 years worth of history and fiction dealing with all this and alt-right conservatives read and see the same fictions and history and see themselves as the heroes. finch in vfv was right: we are part of and trapped by our own history unless we step up and burn it to the ground
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