V for Vacation from Reality
OK, here’s my problem with this movie.
So the guy starts this revolution by killing the government officials and getting the entire country of Great Britain to stand up to its government, yada yada.
And in the midst of this, he dies.
So there are a lot of newly independent thinkers, revolutionists who refuse to be taken advantage of and controlled by their government anymore, and now they have no government to be controlled by and no leaders to follow in creating a new form of people-ruled government.
No plans have been made to reconstruct the government, no “constitution” has been drawn, they are just suddenly and violently without a governing body. And the leader who gave them hope and who fueled the revolution is dead, leaving behind no leaders to guide the people in their restructuring of the country.
And yet the hope is that somehow this country pulls itself out of this predicament and establishes a new form of government while avoiding mass pandemonium, chaos and depression to become a successful, people-ruled republic.
Given the lack of success thus far in replacing a corrupt government with a democratic situation in Iraq, with a firm transition plan and the aid of outside assistance, I just don’t buy it.
I don’t think it’s really that possible for a country to successfully change its form of government overnight, particularly when trying to change from a system in which they are limited and repressed, into a system where the people rule themselves in a structured manner.
I think that in ending the movie with the celebration of Parliament’s end, the creators greatly neglected the inevitable TOMORROW. You can’t just kill everybody and expect a happy ending. Then your story becomes nothing more than a tale of vindictive violence.
Of course, there may have been some answer in there that I missed, as I was absent from a chunk of the movie in the middle. As it turns out, V’s little Vendetta was nothing compared to the havoc those cheese fries wreaked on my insides - so I got to spend some quality time observing other people’s shoes in the women’s restroom.
