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Wonder who will be willing to be V for Valaysia? Or rather J for J...?

May I add on?
Some of the memorable quotes and scenes from the movie:

Remember, remember, the fifth of November. Remember, remember, the 'only hike' of the year?

The only verdict is vengeance. The vendetta.
The only verdict is scot-free. The blogger's vendetta none.

Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.
Beneath this blog there are more than words. There is thinking allowed, Mr. ? and thinking is aloud.

People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.

Fear became the ultimate tool of this government.

I want this country to realize that we stand on the edge of oblivion. I want everyone to remember *why* they need us!

...and not to mention several scenes of media spin-doctoring and witch-hunt.

Gosh, V'm vurprised vit vis vot vanned vin Valaysia! It could be easily used to brainwash the audience (for good, actually)!

It is good to point out 'mistakes' committed by a Government but at the same time it will be helpful if the accusers also outline some solutions to the problems being encountered. And to wish that Barisan Nasional should lose the next elections is also wishing that some fanatical religious groups like PAS come into power. Parti Keadilan is an American puppet & DAP is a criminal waste of political space (with the exception of a few of their leaders). Every leader makes mistakes but I guess without the support of the citizens, we make their task harder.

In response to bnaipal :-

To be very fair, i'm not to sure that the opposition parties have what it takes to run the entire country, and PAS does have rather obscure views at times.

However, what doesn need to happen is that BN needs to loose its 2/3 majority in Parliament asap. Our bills and laws aren't debated and challenged adequately to serve the rakyat well enough. Moreover, because they have such power in Parliament, the BN parliamentarians couldn't care less for their conduct and behaviour...don't beleive me....go read the Hansard....you'll find ....people shouting anjing kucing and the likes in Parliament.

Secondly, Keadilan looks like an American puppet because that is what the ruling coalition would want the rakyat to believe. When you don't give an opposition party adequate media coverage and freedom to communicate, how on earth is a political party supposed to garner strength and build its reputation ??

Members of the opposition are knackered to the bone, every single thing they do needs 4 times the amount of effort actually necessary to achieve.

Ditto to you Jeff, on the Critical thinking 101 :-) Sometimes even that is too much to ask in this country....sheer common sense is more than appreciated.... !!!!

We need a revolution to change the malaysian mindset !!

Cheers :-)

don't waste your ticket on K...he is just somebody's puppet. Puppets have no brains...they would just sit through the show like a block of wood....better give me the tickets..I can take my wife along...

B: "Actually I don't think the BN is doing too badly. The country is peaceful and the economy's moving. Sure, there are some problems, but which country doesn't have them? In our case, most of these problems pile up because there was scant attention paid to physical maintenance and distribution techniques. But, given time and will-power, and less detractors like your goodselves, I am sure we'll pull through somehow."

A: "Excuse me, woman, you may look like some stunning Korean tv actress, but try to exercise your brains here. Tell me you know what's happening right now. We're facing a crisis of confidence in governance. Let me make it plain. The people don't trust no more this government. And that includes most of those who had voted for them. So we have this otherwise comic situation of voters no longer trusting one word of a government they had placed their faith in without question not too long ago. Know the old saying? Nothing more dangerous than a woman scorned, eh?"

Neil: "A, i can empathise with your feelings. It's all from this fuel hike and revelations on Scomi, and before that the APs, Metromac judgement, the MRR2 father-son link, the earsquat fiasco, the scenic bridge brouhaha, Highlands Towers, the cityhall assessment rate rise, the JPA bumi-awards, the funeral parlour, the shah alam flood, the shah alam tap water, the public transportation 100-year cronyplan, the parliament chorus of cackles, the retirees food pension fund, the .."

B:"Neil, stop! what retirees food pension fund?"

Neil: "Oh, the one they'll have to cough up quick otherwise the retirees will starve."

B:"It can't be that bad, Neil! You must be exaggerating."

Neil: "try again, dear."

A:"Look, we have a problem, and i, wolfgang amadeus A, can trace it to its damn root. The answer is simple. This government is propagating denials because it has also been denying itself from truthfully seeing those denials. This government, or 'govern men tragically', simply cannot see itself from outside itself. It has a blind spot. It has no 20/20 vision. This myopia has to stop, and that must start from the top. Why? that's the fastest way to effect change for a behemoth that's almost a million men and women. Some our kakak and adiks."

B:"ok, i can live with that. But you must also admit this government has been exercising some wisdom."

Neil:"pray tell, we are all ears. (and some)."

B: "it has given scholarships to bumis so that they will come back more open to what's open for Malaysia. It has given time for DBP and our national-language champions to malayise the national medium so that a common communication can be forged. It has created the national service to make it easier for youths of all races to come together. It has solved the asian crisis and created engines of growth by spending our way out of recession."

A:"Excuse me, woman. Have you been drinking? Let me take you up on them, one by one. Heh-heh.

Scholarships for bumis? And how many of them actually return to change the mindsets that was the reason why they were sent? How many have become subservient, instead, to their own coterie of daily needs? How many of them carry one iota of consideration and commiseration translated into real action that the privileges they had enjoyed were given them over the heads and cries of others who had achieved more but remain in the pits because of their names and colours of their skin? And how many of them stayed away to not pay back loans on the reason there's lack of suitable high posts for them on silver platters when they return? And how many of them are not cronies now? How many of them have stood up and told the funders these words -'we can't do things like this anymore, our Chinese and Indians and other brethrens also deserve support; they sacrificed their rights as brothers so that we can have a better life; we must give them no less than what you have given us. Otherwise our sense of justice and principles of faith and liberal education make a mockery of us and will taint us for the rest of our lives.' And you know what, last year this time the JPA head said they will review the criteria after the public outburst. What has come out of that statement? Let me answer for you - NOtHinG! Only a cockamamie aspersion by the DPM. Why can't they just spell out the criteria? Something to hide? Afraid the public can't swallow it? After 49 years, fear should be the last thing. Confidence is needed. And this goment ain't got that.

And this malayising the national medium thing. Where are we now in this matter? Ok, i admit it wasn't a bad thing - which country won't want to defend its own national language?"

B: "you see the wisdom?"

A: " yes, i do. The gomen did allow for anti-globalists to sentimentalise on the national language. But then , let me hasten to add, at the expense of national mental and knowledge growth. Now we pay the price multiplied by other factors for being too late too little to embrace change for our youths. I look at the textbooks in some other countries. They're way ahead in content and coverage while our focus seems to be regressing in both standards and content.

The national service? Let me cut the chase. Wait until the participants grow up to have their own families and then get a taste of the real life of affirmative policies resulting in inequitable denials. All the muhibbaba will vanish. Then where will we be but for the million megabucks that have gone into the pockets of the promoters?"

Neil: "perhaps that's too sensational, no?"

A: " step aside, Neil. I ain't finished yet.

Engine of growth by spending the way to kingdom come? Do you know how many credit card accounts are on the verge of being suspended? 150,000. What do you think will happen to these people come April when the bill collectors hit the doorbell? Common sense tells us we can only depend so much on this economic romanticism when there are real engines of growth. Too dependent are we on oil and natural gas, says Yoda. All this while, what this gomen been doing? Oiling the hands of its own cronies with APs, junket trips, kickbacks. And when the rakyat plea for sanity, they hurl back insults with otak binatang, racist, resign!

Come on, make my day, give me sensible retorts."

B: "A, calm down. Not good for your health.

A: "B, yesterday, the guy of some association of public accounts said that the town council accounts are confidential because the law says so. What an unhelpful statement! The very reason the rakyat are asking for the details is that they want to know how the money has been spent and on whom. What have they to hide? That they've been using the money to buy defense shields? Saying something that can be changed but won't be changed only makes idiots of the sayers.

I am tired, my friends."

Neil: "me too, old friend."

B: "i should have kept my mouth shut. Please don't feel too bad about it."

A: "the only endlosung - final solution? use more condoms."

Neil: "erhhhh?"

B:

A: "that way you won't procreate future generations which have to suffer such shit in the very land they shouldn't be born in."

Neil:

B: "let me take both of you to a movie instead. How about V for Vendetta?"

A: "let me know when V for Viagra hits town."

Hahahaha.... Bravo Neil!

Jeff, can I copy this and forward it to my ALL friends?

I've seen the film. It's very good - thought provoking and fast-paced. I enjoyed it thoroughly. I love the witty dialogues in this show - something which is missing from so many films these days.

As for howsy's pondering on why the govt did not ban this show, I think it could be due to any of the following:

1. The current govt is actually more liberal than the former.

2. Someone is slacking in his job at the censorship board, which is probably the one time the rakyat benefits from a govt servant sleeping on his job.

3. The govt can't ban this show because we can still read about it or download it from the net or buy it from Sg Wang, and thus banning this show will be admiting that the govt is tyrannical. (V for Vendetta is banned for slandering the Malaysian govt. Hehe.)

is it just me, or does v for vendetta really highlight some similarities with our malaysian environment (gov-controlled media, suppression of revolutionaries). A review at http://www.think.com.my/review.cfm?rev_ID=203 mentions some of the similarities