Bad News: I watched V for Vendetta last night. I understand that the movie took great liberties with the comic, but sending the message that a torturer is doing you a favor is NOT OKAY. My reaction was visceral. I don’t know anything about the Wachowski Brothers or their background, but using that sort of crap as an intellectual exercise clearly shows they lack a certain empathy for those of us who have been victims.
In the original, I understand, V is an anarchist, and Evie is not drawn to him, and I suppose the whole things comes off as horrific, but more acceptable. But the movie, it’s just messed up. Gah.
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Good News: I just sent off my last student loan payment after 10 years. My PhD is now paid for. My entire education is paid for. For those of you who have been in grad school, you know this is huge.
I guess I should celebrate. Maybe throw a party in a library or something.
Back to the salt mines.
Catherine
Woohoo! Free and clear. Now nobody can reposes the PhD. Congrates, Catherine, on paying it off so quickly.
My take on the V torture of Evie was it was a part of the story to remind us V is not “the good guy.” It was a trciky gambit that had the equivalent effect of people throwing the book against the wall. I think what set me off was then the over-reaction Evie had sending V’s body into the fire to blow up Parliment. Instead they played up the “sometimes you have to be bad for the greater good” angle. The problem came in that a lot of people wanted to support V and missed that he’s a psychopath and a sociopath, not to mention a terrorist.