I just re-watched v for vendetta cause it's the 5th of November. I haven't watched it in a decade. I remembered it as a good movie. I was wrong. It reminded me that the woke propaganda started way earlier than the 2010s. The idiocy was already there in the mid 2000's.
In this 2006 movie, there's a homo honoring the Quran (more or less). The villains are conservative Christians who are against immigration. There's a big emphasis on the victimization of gays. The only female villain is excused for her crime and given an honorable death. Honestly, the only thing missing would be more POC and then this could easily pass up as a modern movie. It was made by the Wachowski after all so it was to be expected. Surprise! Both turned into trannies like the bots that they are (one as early as 2008).
Ironically, the plot revolved around a government that used the release of a man-made virus to take over the country and restrict freedom. They control the police, the media, etc. Basically modern day bs but with the roles of oppressors/oppressed reversed.
The average Millennial and Gen Xer has been slowly brainwashed by narratives like this for years so it's no wonder now that when they came into power, they attacked who they've been told is the enemy. They turned themselves into the mindless villains along the way because the message of V is not to bring justice and restore order but to punish and virtue signal in the hope that someone else will fix it. Blow up the parliament, sure, but what do you do after is what's supposed to be important. Don't persecute the lgbtq and let them speak sure...but what if what they had to say wasn't worth hearing. What if in fact it was detrimental to the rest of the nation. What if it was so loud that what anyone else said wasn't heard anymore..so loud that it buried reason itself. Here we are.
Isn't V more of an anti-hero anyway?
Yeah, he is. OP missed this...somehow.
It's akin to watchmen, in which nobody is 'good', but they all have massive flaws they're trying to deal with in pursuit of their goals, and rorscach is beloved because of them, even though the book tries to tell you he's an awful person (and he is pretty fucked up) who nobody should trust/want around. Despite his massive issues, people like him because he's willing to uphold his principles until death, and he refuses to compromise on them.
I mean OP is correct that V for Vendetta is a subversive piece of media like almost everything that Hollywood has ever produced. But in 2005 the world was a very different place as well. It wasn't anywhere as woke as it was today.
I meant the OP of this thread, not the topic. Sorry for not being more clear.
I understood that. I just wanted to add that the OP gives the movie more credit than it is due while also missing that V is an anti-hero. It's not particularly woke nor is it pushing something that most people weren't already agreeing with at the time anyway. Unlike today.
Can I remind everyone that OP is the original poster. In tree comments like this is appropriate to refer to parents and grandparents.
the foundations of woke were already well installed, but the targets of woke were different. It seems "less" woke only because many of the assumptions in media that you take for granted were baked in wokeness from before you were born
The world was less woke in 2005. Even in 2010 it was less woke. At that time Tumblr was considered a pit of insanity. Today their insanity is mainstream. If we go by your logic then the world was already woke in the 1700s because the French Revolution started the path to wokeness. And the subversion of European culture started even earlier.