this is going to be a post-y day

[verbicide]

Because I do not want to be at work, still. So distractable. I'm starting to look at WebTrends, but it is a brain-suck.

So I will write about my weekend, briefly.

Friday: cleaning frenzy and book-reading
Saturday: Buffy: Season 1 and knitting with Jeanne
Sunday: Lunch and V is for Vendetta and Dinner with Sarah

Book: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. I loved it. For some reason this book really returned me to my love of reading. I felt, and I know this sounds cheesy, like I could bask in it. It felt nourishing. I ripped through it in a few nights, and spent a very happy Saturday afternoon on the couch, just reading. I haven't done that in ages, and it felt so damn good. I'm also finally out of the jungle in Locas, so that's exciting. I'm looking forward to more Maggie and Hopey.

Movie: I was surprised by how much I enjoyed V. Natalie Portman did a great job, and Hugo Weaving is wonderful in all that I see him in (I did not watch the second, third Matrix movies, and I have no idea how he was in them).



I did struggle with some of the violence. Especially to people who had the misfortune to be in V's path--like the random cops, just doing their job. I also found his imprisonment of Evey unforgivable. I don't know that I would have come back to see him at the end of the year. Any movie is enriched by Stephen Fry's presence, and I found this no different. God, I love him.

The comparisons to our world were disturbing. The idea of giving up our rights for safety is one that hasn't appealed much to me, it doesn't seem like it should be a choice our government should ask us to make. But I think all the alarmist naysayers who are protesting this movie as the glorification of terrorism are missing the fucking point. While V is an ambiguous character (neither wholly good nor evil), the government is clearly the villain to me. And people should unite to protest, peacefully, as we still can, to prevent our world from disintegrating any further into such disrepair.

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I also found his imprisonment of Evey unforgivable.

Yes, that was my breaking point with V, too, when I read the comic, all those years ago. I never forgave him for it, either.

But I think all the alarmist naysayers who are protesting this movie as the glorification of terrorism are missing the fucking point. While V is an ambiguous character (neither wholly good nor evil), the government is clearly the villain to me. And people should unite to protest, peacefully, as we still can, to prevent our world from disintegrating any further into such disrepair.

Yes, I think that's precisely what I've been trying to find the words to say, ever since I saw the movie.

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I love the icon :)

And I have the book, too, and part of me is curious to read it, but it's a little far down on the never-ending list...