Remember, remember the 5th of November

I saw a movie last night that was truly an incredible adventure. So seeping was it with Wachowski-ism, it was rife with enjoyment. Those friends in the world that loved the Matrix (and subsequently, it's two sequels) will truly enjoy this tale of a countryman choosing to take his opportunity to avenge an ideal long forgotten in the midst of "Haymaker Politics", as I like to call it.

In al it's glory, there is still room for contempt and judgement on the film. It is adventure, it is in the future, it is pooling from several great films of yore (1984, Equilibrium, Resident Evil, any number of Japanese anime films) and lends itself to inconsistency. But yet, if I am to rebutte to those claims, I'd have to recall that in spite of the unbelieveablity of some of the film, it was visually beautiful and Owen Patterson created a world that is colorful, intense, real and fearful. I was given world that was easy to feel like I was a part of, meaning it was easy to sit and watch and not find a thousand things wrong. Before I had time to look for things, I was caught up. And my mind was so engaged throughout that it was not even possible to mentally detach myself and start nitpicking.

I know the ideas in the film are considered "terrorists-like" and "anarchist", but if i can quote from two other films that very heavily dance and interact with government ideals, I shall:

"You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's standing center-stage and advocating at the top of his lungs that which you would spend a lifetime opposing at the top of yours. You want to claim this land as the land of the free? Then the symbol of your country cannot just be a flag. The symbol also has to be one of its citizens exercising his right to burn that flag in protest. Now show me that, defend that, celebrate that in your classrooms. Then, you can stand up and sing about the land of the free."
-President Andrew Shepherd, addressing the press in response to character attacks on himself in The American President-

"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security."
-Benjamin Gates, reading the Declaration of Independence in National Treasure-

So then, what? We've never been put in a position like this movie tells, so don't think that it's grounds for an upheaval of national or international proportions. If you think I'm blowing smoke, think about Farenheit 911.
Michael Moore slams Bush on nearly every front and what does American do? They elect him again.