In fairness, most holidays get movies : PAnd I agree that freedom, liberty and justice are all great ideals....which are all, in my opinion, completely at odds with religiously justified assassination attempts. The movie V for Vendetta is, in a vacuum, not bad, but it so wildly diverges from the graphic novel and has no basis in reality that I kinda hate that it makes everyone go "yay Guy Fawkes!!". The character V is not and should not be mistaken for Guy Fawkes.. Full stop. Bonfire night is about celebrating the failure of a treasonous attempt on the lives of King James and parliament, not celebrating alliteration and civil disobedience.
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Date: 2012-11-06 02:37 pm (UTC)