More "Vendetta"
Dr. Strauss provides comments on this celebration of anarchy on Stop The Spirit Of Zossen : The original's anarchist view (the V and the 1980s “A” for anarchy not accidentally similar) is and was self indulgently childish — especially when the reality Moore railed against is now so much more immediate than his overcooked imaginings just twenty years ago. Apropos "A" for Anarchy check out the "A" is for Anarchy in the Wall Street Journal . It's an interesting review/history of the anarchist movement by Todd Seavey. What Seavey and others fail to point out is that "V" is not fighting against a middle class liberal democratic regime but against a Fascist dictatorhsip. Would he label the partisans fighting against the Vichy regime in France as "anarchists?" And it's not surprising that the Tory Anarchist aka Daniel McCarthy gave it "V for … Very Good, Actually:" Glamourized sadism is an apt description of the Wachowkis’ last ...