One of the great things about art is that it is seen in context. I just saw V for Vendetta. I’ve read many comments on it, and I gather many are considering this movie in light of the current war and administration–incidentally I love the idiots on IMDB message boards claiming it can’t be about Bush because it’s based on an earlier graphic novel and set in England.

And I sat today in a movie theater in a nation with the adopted slogan, “Evolution not Revolution.” A nation in which people attacked the opposition candidate for President with bricks because they didn’t want him to cause instability. Whose neighbors, and close kin, underwent a revolution last year which when the smoke cleared was apparently one group of powermongers swapping places with another, and letting the criminals gain even more control. Where people stormed the Office of the President and lay waste to it, while the President just disappeared and let them. And there was chaos for a few days and no one knew what was happening, rumors spread, fear was visible and even now people are afraid to go there.

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