I saw this movie for the first time in America 6 months ago and I saw it again yesterday. Whatever the creators of the movie intended, I could not stop referring to Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience". It was published in 1849 and his famous quote "The best government is that which governs least" really makes you think. V for Vendetta is a movie and it should be separated from real life but it still scares me, what if the government has way more power than you know or could ever imagine.
According to Thoreau you should do what you think is right, if you do not agree with the government you should not just go with it and obey. And when he says obey he means paying taxes, follow the law, vote and so on. You should break loose from the restraints you're born with. In his essay he wrote "Under a government which imprisons unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.… " wich pretty much engulfs his whole theory.
When I read his essay I thought to myself; WOW, if everyone did what Thoreau did, it would work, there would be no injustice! But then I thought about it, everyone is not like Thoreau, justice lies in the mind of the beholder, justice is not the same for everyone. Unfortunately.. chaos would break out.
In V for Vendetta all of London stood up against the government and the government falls, THE END. What happens next? What happens when there is no government, no laws, no injustice? What type of leadership will emerge? Because one will, it is in the nature of the human race to seek a leader, a greater force to rely on. This is the tricky part...
This is why I both agree and disagree with Thoreau. Or I'm just too closeminded to understand his thoughts fully.
I end this blog with a quote from Henry David Thoreau, think about it.
"If the alternative is to keep all just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible."
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