So, I finally got out to see V For Vendetta over the weekend and was pleasantly surprised. I’d say that it’s definitely the best adaptation of an Alan Moore book thus far. (Of course the previous attempts didn’t exactly set the bar too terribly high.) The B plot with the detectives felt a little tacked on and the some of the political commentary felt a bit confused and/or pedestrian, but none of it got in the way of the overall story and essential message.
Of course the timing of the film is made all the more… disturbing, maybe? – by the immigration marches in the U.S. and labor protests in France. Not that I would make any hyperbolic equations, but unrest is unrest.
I was actually very nearly run over by one of the marches while I was out at lunch yesterday. I have a bad feeling that this whole mess is going to turn real ugly. I certainly can’t blame anyone for wanting to escape that corrupt third world oligarchy to our South, but on the other hand, no single country can absorb a mass migration without inviting serious consequences; that’s a simple lesson of history. And that’s the problem, we’re not dealing with “illegal immigration,” we’re dealing with a mass migration.
It seems to me that that this is the kind of situation the UN should be dealing with. Why aren’t arms being twisted within Mexico to bring some stability to that country? Theirs may not be considered an oppressive government, but it’s certainly wantonly unresponsive. There’s a pervasive, backwards “peasant and master” mentality that needs to end, lest it affect the entire hemisphere negatively.
Oh, there goes my little inner imperialist again…
But I remember once back in college I got into a conversation with another student from Mexico City. She was cute, seemingly intelligent and things were going well until she offhandedly referred to Mexican immigrants as “peasants.” To my nave American ears this sounded a step away from a racial slur… and in essence it was. She went on to basically laugh at America for taking in the people who the elite ruling class of her country had written off long ago. I would have thought this a relatively isolated view, but I encountered it a few more times afterward.
So yeah, that’s what concerns me: this isn’t just a question of “do they stay or do they go.” This is another case where our government refuses to deal with the reality of a situation – and they won’t! So long as the power players in D.C. and Wall Street are brokering “Free Trade” deals with their corrupt counterparts in Mexico, they’re not going to do one damn thing to help anybody on either side of the border.
Ya know, I really had planned on refraining from any rants today…
Oh well I guess I am what I am.
Of course the timing of the film is made all the more… disturbing, maybe? – by the immigration marches in the U.S. and labor protests in France. Not that I would make any hyperbolic equations, but unrest is unrest.
I was actually very nearly run over by one of the marches while I was out at lunch yesterday. I have a bad feeling that this whole mess is going to turn real ugly. I certainly can’t blame anyone for wanting to escape that corrupt third world oligarchy to our South, but on the other hand, no single country can absorb a mass migration without inviting serious consequences; that’s a simple lesson of history. And that’s the problem, we’re not dealing with “illegal immigration,” we’re dealing with a mass migration.
It seems to me that that this is the kind of situation the UN should be dealing with. Why aren’t arms being twisted within Mexico to bring some stability to that country? Theirs may not be considered an oppressive government, but it’s certainly wantonly unresponsive. There’s a pervasive, backwards “peasant and master” mentality that needs to end, lest it affect the entire hemisphere negatively.
Oh, there goes my little inner imperialist again…
But I remember once back in college I got into a conversation with another student from Mexico City. She was cute, seemingly intelligent and things were going well until she offhandedly referred to Mexican immigrants as “peasants.” To my nave American ears this sounded a step away from a racial slur… and in essence it was. She went on to basically laugh at America for taking in the people who the elite ruling class of her country had written off long ago. I would have thought this a relatively isolated view, but I encountered it a few more times afterward.
So yeah, that’s what concerns me: this isn’t just a question of “do they stay or do they go.” This is another case where our government refuses to deal with the reality of a situation – and they won’t! So long as the power players in D.C. and Wall Street are brokering “Free Trade” deals with their corrupt counterparts in Mexico, they’re not going to do one damn thing to help anybody on either side of the border.
Ya know, I really had planned on refraining from any rants today…
Oh well I guess I am what I am.