V for Vendetta this controversial movie still makes people think
In the west the political point of the movie didn't have a strong impact like the one in the East ,our near middle East ,in our middle Country between the Eastern Arab World and Western Arab World a.k.a Egypt
After roaming around in the INTERNET from blogs to news sites to religious sites ,I found out that some westerns look to it as the pro-gay movie , the best propaganda made for the homosexual and guess what a pro-Islam movie too !! oh boy I found this too provoking and humiliating
I watched the movie with my aunt from few weeks and we were the only two Egyptians in the Galaxy Cinema in Manial with two foreigners only as on that day from 6 pm to 9 pm El-Ahly football was playing a match and the whole country seemed to be deserted the same way it was on the day of the finale of The African Nations Cup
Both me and my aunt are considered to be religious yet open minded , and as we live in our beautiful Mubarak's Egypt of today we didn't see it as a pro-gay movie with all the gay characters and sympathy in the film ,more it is a movie about our conditions in Egypt
Guys for real omit Future England the country where the story goes and put instead our present Egypt and you will find small difference ,concerning the homosexuals only , yet in every aspect you will find our present Egypt whether the media or the security forces or prisons and torture
I remember my aunt asking me in the end "How did Ali Abu Shady the head of the censorship in Egypt let this movie to be shown ??" , I ignored all the pro-gay stuff in it as I found much more important parts not to be ignored in it , this movie simply warns the people from regimes like in the movie the totalitarian ones ,to give up for it as it happened otherwise their future will be like future England or even worst like present day Egypt
in the movie the totalitarian regime reminded of Bush's administration in his war about terrorism , using it as the plea, the enemies of the nation , the enemies of the Lord and the enemies of people ironically they are the ones who made those enemies !!
I see why some western consider this movie as a pro-gay pro-Islam one , simply because in the West most of them live in Democratic society these totalitarian big brother military societies they don't know except from fiction books, fiction movies and following the news of countries like ours . And so they saw only the gay parts
While we , who live in totalitarian oppressed countries ignore these parts from the overall idea ,from the lost freedom , if you are a member in DVD4Arab forum and read the memebers' review about the movie ,you will know what I mean
Bottom-line Watch the movie and ignore Pro-gay parts , after all it is a movie people want and regimes don't :)
Ironically when we returned home ,my aunt advised me to download the movie from the INTERNET so my mom and my grand ma can see
Good point there zainab, but..
ReplyDeletein fact zainab, not all the west see it as a pro-gay movie. the movie came as a reaction and a prediction of what is going to happen if the nations continued to give up their freedom and rights for the sake of a “Holy War” against an imaginary enemy. that’s what’s going now in USA and UK –scene stage of the movie- and many other places.
They r afraid and concerned too. they fought hard for the live style they r living in now. i guess that’s why the movie was made in first place. and about the homosexuality issue, although it’s running for years now in the USA – specially after Bush attempts to pass an amendment that bans same-sex marriage – but I guess it’s a symbol for the real issue, civilian rights.
very glad u recovered from esthesia, zeinobia.
also good coverage of the amendment story is found here:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13211744/
and here also:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13132716/
search for more related topics if u need. enjoy :)
yes not all the west indeed I remember I read an article before the movie release in the Times magazine
ReplyDeleteIt was a discussion about the ethical point of using terrorism in fighting dictatorship !! they called V , the crazy terrorist in the mask
and yes after the 9/11 some of the americans are scared from the big brother system that Bush brought to fight the so-called terrorism , I will call them some because still the majority doesn't understand Bush and his adminstration game
The gays right in the movie was there in the graphic novel which the movie is based upon , here it is symbol for minority right there was no Islam hints in the book , already it was written in 1970s in UK and Islam wasn't obvious as it is now
in 1970s and 1980s there was some called Homophobia , the fear from homosexual ,it is still but they regarded as Nazi radical religious act
Now there is the Islamphobia after 9/11
anyway , the movie made lots of talk , and this is positive among those who think in the world ,yet it didn't have an impact on the movie fans of Spider man and co.
I read from two week in El-Dostor something related to V , that this movie shows the future of Egypt if we give up to the regime
sorry this is the present of Egypt
I will write about it soon an independent post
about the Bush amendment well it is nice try for him to raise his popularity in the conservative base
Do you know that Chenny's daughter is a Lesiban !? Mary, Lisa' sister ,Lisa who wants our education systems to be changed !!