So…re-watched #VforVendetta (2005) after almost 20 yrs & let's just say the Wachowski sisters-McTeigue adaptation of a Thatcher-era comic, swims in a sick miasma of #DejaVu, bolding how our current fascism was previewed by progressive/POC critics of Reagan, Thatcher, Bush(es). Set post-fascist takeover, w/a choleric Hitlerian dictator enriched by corruption & profit off a plague released to scapegoat "outsiders" & spread fear.
In the past twenty years or so this poem has gotten connected to and celebrated in the masterpiece V FOR VENDETTA written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd. It truly is one of the greatest graphic novels ever created.
If you've never read the book or have only seen the very good film version I highly recommend it. It is brilliant.
Remember, remember the 5th of November, the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot. #VforVendetta#November5th
If you have not seen this classic film (probably the best DC film ever!), then I suggest you take some time out during the weekend & watch V For Vendetta this weekend.
V For Vendetta highlights life under an authoritarian regime & is more relevant today than it was in 2005 when the film was released.
I believe what made V For Vendetta powerful was the fact that the movie reminded the masses that they had surrendered power to a centralized, authoritarian government & it was up to them to seize that power back.
Here you had a government promoting fear & chaos...
So the reveal party was like this. 5 of us (really 6, one person was also holding a 5-month-old) stood behind my son and daughter-in-law. We opened the envelope and then held up signs that signified what the gender was (they were two sided signs). A photographer took pictures and then snapped a picture with a Polaroid camera and handed them the picture. We then put the signs down while they waited for the picture to develop so we could watch then find out. What an awesome reveal method!
So it’s a girl and will be named Evelyn, named after the character from The Mummy, and they will be calling their daughter Evey (I’ve decided she’s actually named after Evey from V for Vendetta). FYI had it been a boy it would have been named Loki.
Either way I’d be happy, but I’d say I am quite pleased as this will be my first granddaughter as her cousins are all boys.