I had the displeasure of contributing money to a pile of crap disguised as a film last Saturday night. Being a fan of the Matrix movie, I was curious to see the Wachowski brothers’ newest offering. Let’s just say I’m not a big fan of the Wachowski brothers any longer.
Although the movie is set in England predominately in the Year 2020, it is a (very) thinly-veiled allegory aimed squarely at the current political leadership of the United States. The Wachowski’s studiously borrowed from Leni Reifenstal’s Triumph of the Will, the Nazi propaganda film of 1934, to inform their depiction of Chancellor Sutler (John Hurt), a menacing, fear-mongering, gay-bashing, Islam-hating dictator (there’s even a scene showing a poster, presumably from a banned drama production, entitled “Coalition of the Willing” with a Nazi swastika as its centerpiece). Take a wild guess who the Chancellor is supposed to symbolize.
The film has all the endearing charm that we’ve come to expect from the extreme political left. The government planned and executed a genocidal attack on its own people (hey, did Charlie Sheen co-write this flick?) with biological weapons, killing 80,000 of its own people, including women and children, and blamed it on terrorists in order to scare the general population into giving up their civil rights in exchange for security.
Hmmm. Where have I heard that before?
The main religious figure is a high-ranking Catholic church official (bishop) who is, of course, an aggressive pedophile in bed with (so to speak) corrupt politicians. The filthy-mouthed TV commentator, Prothero (Roger Allam) is a former military leader and Orwellian boor who serves as the government’s spin doctor, lacing his appeals for “unity through strength” in Christian religious metaphors and imagery. Homosexuals, artists, and Muslims are oppressed, detained (would you believe they still use those Abu Ghraib hoods 15 years from now?), or outright murdered by Christian brownshirts (die Kristallnacht, anyone?). Secret files are kept on everyone (read: NSA surveillance program), unless those files are damaging to the government, at which time they are placed down the memory hole.
The only positive references to religion have to do with a Koran illegally possessed by its owner for its "beautiful poetry" (I think he was referring to the part about killing infidels) and some nonsensical reference to “God being in the rain” by Natalie Portman.
The protagonist is a terrorist who promises to bomb Parliament “to bring hope” back to the people. Seemingly all of England gratefully responds by donning the terrorist’s garb in a massive show of solidarity, which is a cinematic reminder by the film creators that everyone really thinks like they (leftists) do, except for the evil people in power and those who vote for them, who are either deceived or stupid (or both).
The Wachowski’s “final solution” for the Chancellor involves a faustian deal struck between “V” the terrorist, and the shadowy Dick Cheney character, Creedy (i.e. greedy), who kidnaps the Chancellor and delivers him to “V” groveling for his life before Creedy offs him.
The “moral” of the film (if you want to call it that): It’s okay to commit terrorist acts against an oppressive government (i.e. the United States) run by “Christian” Nazi fascists.
It was like sitting through a wet dream of the political left. Disgusting.
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