V for Vendetta…are we there yet?
March 25th, 2006Part 1. Movie review of a sort
A really good movie to watch. Worth watching it on big screen with surround sound. These are the first thoughts I had. Lots of action, character development and tight script…which is ALWAYS a foremost in my book. Story development through characters. That’s the way to do it, I think.
Over the top violence though and at some points I felt it was overly done. Violence did add to the whole movie experience and I could see why it may have been necessary; nevertheless, it also distracted me a little.
A superhero/villain that quotes Shakespear and other movies. And he loves Count of Montecristo, one of my favourites!
From the way my proses are laid out, by now you must have realized I either lack coffee or the movie simply blew me away.
Go see kaboom with loud music. Yay.
On the side note, Michelle found the phrase ‘former-US’ very funny and I could see how our society in general is approaching. Let’s talk about that for the moment.
Part 2. Off tracked rant
I recently watched a TV program–CBC’s Venture, I believe–that discussed identity theft through phishing emails pretending to be eBay or whatnot to get people’s information such as Name, Address, DOB, credit card information. In fact, there are quite a good number of people who have fallen for such things already as scammers get ‘creative.’
While government is increasing pressure on cyber regulation (1) and corporations try to dig deeper into one’s data (2), I can quite clearly foresee people who were duped once supporting such bills that might allow government to ‘protect’ people a little more intimately. As usual, unenlightened will fear and submit to government’s graceful action that might, in the short term, protect them from invisible hands trying to steal their cash.
Once such bill passes due to sheer number of backers, both powerful and rich as well as poor and fearful, everyone will be jumping around trying to find a secure way to browse, communicate and increase overall paranoia. After all, someone IS looking out–AND into your life–for you.
I know China does this already to some degree (3). Of course, any system has a loop hole and there are people inside China who do take advantage of that; it’s a very risky venture however and probably ignore for the moment since such loopholes are not abused by the masses.
But I really don’t care about how China does it’s business (4). I already don’t quite agree with their humanitarian efforts–or the lack thereof. As the movie (above) mentioned, “People shouldn’t fear their government. Governments should fear their people.” To some degrees China has it backward, although to be frank, not too many people really live in fear so it is not really that bad.
What I do care is how US will handle itself; US has big enough market on net that it could set a precedence. As well, Canada usually ends up being bullied to join and I rather not see that happen.
And because internet is becoming more and more part of our daily lives, censoring and government snooping personal data can significantly affect how we do our business in the future. Every item you buy online will be tracked. And while you may say ‘I am not doing anything illegal so I should not worry,’ it is the fact that such data exist I see as a potential harm. Give a data and enough time, there will always be someone to hack it out of government. And while government may be gathering all these to protect you, we are not talking one central location for hackers to jump in and feast. Not a pretty sight in my point of view.
Of course, once the second world-wide flood-like catastrophe hits the earth, all these worry may be a moot point. After all, we ARE living in a borrowed time.
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