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Old 09-15-2008, 06:08 PM   #97
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Originally Posted by NetSlut View Post
It's probably just me, I can't get the memory of Elrond out of my head no matter how I try.
I have to say, he played a grumpier Elrond than I could possibly have imagined.

Not having seen the entire movie nor read the book (V again), I can't pass judgment on the moral. But it does seem to me that a movie or book can portray the acts of desperate people (even sympathetically) without necessarily justifying them.

On the other hand, one can always play the "what if?" game-- if your response wouldn't be V's (or whoever-- fill in your movie character of choice here), what would it be? What would be more appropriate, more just, more effective, etc.?

I don't know what I would do if trapped in a totalitarian society. I'd like to think that my actions would more resemble those of the Quakers in Nazi Germany than V's, but how can I know how I would react to torture or the abduction of my loved ones?
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