Comments on: Remember, remember… http://www.jpuddy.net/2006/03/18/remember-remember/ Home of DJ and technophile Jonathan Puddle (aka DJ J Puddy) Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:35:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: dawL http://www.jpuddy.net/2006/03/18/remember-remember/#comment-160 dawL Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:29:37 +0000 http://www.jpuddy.net/blog/2006/03/remember-remember/#comment-160 haha.. i agree yup hawt (soundtraK)+ movie!!!! i gotta see it again to absorb it all... and take noteS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! haha.... this post makes me loti haha.. i agree

yup hawt (soundtraK)+ movie!!!!

i gotta see it again to absorb it all… and take noteS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

haha…. this post makes me loti

]]> By: Matthew http://www.jpuddy.net/2006/03/18/remember-remember/#comment-142 Matthew Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:35:03 +0000 http://www.jpuddy.net/blog/2006/03/remember-remember/#comment-142 just saw it today-like you, I tend to really fall in love with a film right after seeing it. I've thought about it a bit since then, and I have one big nit (and some smaller ones), but not big enough to nit me out of loving it and possibly even buying it. What I got out of it was that this is neoconservatism to its final conclusion. If countries such as the U.S. keep going down this path, it will ultimately lead (power corrupts) to a dictatorship of man in the name of Christ. This will most surely force the (largely) Atheist left to eventually take up arms and overthrown the government, leaving in my mind an equally detestable situation: anarchy (or at the very least, blatant libertarianism). As Jon mentioned, people in power are often quick to discard the ladder they climbed up on, and this is pretty much a law of history, most clearly in France in the 19th century. So we either end up with anarchy, libertarianism, or most likely yet another dictatorship. The people then revolt, and repeat cycle. However, the film's great strength comes from other things, namely, the question of good violence vs. bad violence raised a great point (which I didn't really notice until Jon pointed it out), the "freedom from fear" theme was excellent, the whole thing of looking at the people behind the idea/movement, and I think most importantly the message that the Church of Jesus Christ has really got to get out of this paralytic muscle-lock we call neoconservatism that we seem think has the number on righteousness and really just start loving people. So see it-be challenged. It's what the filmmakers want and its what I want-I have a slight inkling that its what God wants too. just saw it today-like you, I tend to really fall in love with a film right after seeing it. I’ve thought about it a bit since then, and I have one big nit (and some smaller ones), but not big enough to nit me out of loving it and possibly even buying it.

What I got out of it was that this is neoconservatism to its final conclusion. If countries such as the U.S. keep going down this path, it will ultimately lead (power corrupts) to a dictatorship of man in the name of Christ. This will most surely force the (largely) Atheist left to eventually take up arms and overthrown the government, leaving in my mind an equally detestable situation: anarchy (or at the very least, blatant libertarianism). As Jon mentioned, people in power are often quick to discard the ladder they climbed up on, and this is pretty much a law of history, most clearly in France in the 19th century. So we either end up with anarchy, libertarianism, or most likely yet another dictatorship. The people then revolt, and repeat cycle.

However, the film’s great strength comes from other things, namely, the question of good violence vs. bad violence raised a great point (which I didn’t really notice until Jon pointed it out), the “freedom from fear” theme was excellent, the whole thing of looking at the people behind the idea/movement, and I think most importantly the message that the Church of Jesus Christ has really got to get out of this paralytic muscle-lock we call neoconservatism that we seem think has the number on righteousness and really just start loving people.

So see it-be challenged. It’s what the filmmakers want and its what I want-I have a slight inkling that its what God wants too.

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.jpuddy.net/2006/03/18/remember-remember/#comment-136 Jonathan Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:13:46 +0000 http://www.jpuddy.net/blog/2006/03/remember-remember/#comment-136 Interesting stuff Haze. I looked through Amazon at the books that guy's written. I might pick that Violence one up some time. Cheers! Interesting stuff Haze. I looked through Amazon at the books that guy’s written. I might pick that Violence one up some time.

Cheers!

]]> By: sgt steve http://www.jpuddy.net/2006/03/18/remember-remember/#comment-135 sgt steve Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:57:57 +0000 http://www.jpuddy.net/blog/2006/03/remember-remember/#comment-135 ya, i want to see that flic bad! ya, i want to see that flic bad!

]]> By: hazey http://www.jpuddy.net/2006/03/18/remember-remember/#comment-134 hazey Mon, 20 Mar 2006 18:33:38 +0000 http://www.jpuddy.net/blog/2006/03/remember-remember/#comment-134 "What’s the difference between good violence and bad violence?" I found on line text, of the book I was trying to tell you about before (as Pavel, but the cat's out of the bag so yeah, that was me) <a href="http://www.religion-online.org/showbook.asp?title=573" rel="nofollow">Violence: Reflections from a Christian Perspective by Jacques Ellul</a> interesting thoughts in conection to V, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul" rel="nofollow">Ellul</a> is (or at least he was, he died a few years back) an anarchist, and fought against the nazis as a member of the french resistance. (though that was in his younger years, he might have still been a marxist at that time) “What’s the difference between good violence and bad violence?”

I found on line text, of the book I was trying to tell you about before (as Pavel, but the cat’s out of the bag so yeah, that was me)

Violence: Reflections from a Christian Perspective by Jacques Ellul

interesting thoughts in conection to V, Ellul is (or at least he was, he died a few years back) an anarchist, and fought against the nazis as a member of the french resistance. (though that was in his younger years, he might have still been a marxist at that time)

]]> By: Chris Cole http://www.jpuddy.net/2006/03/18/remember-remember/#comment-133 Chris Cole Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:19:44 +0000 http://www.jpuddy.net/blog/2006/03/remember-remember/#comment-133 didn't know elrond was agent smith, thought never crossed my mind. can see why he had this dark and sinister edge now....wooo. my subconscious was playing tricks on me. sounds good, will have to see it sometime...when it comes out in uk. didn’t know elrond was agent smith, thought never crossed my mind. can see why he had this dark and sinister edge now….wooo. my subconscious was playing tricks on me. sounds good, will have to see it sometime…when it comes out in uk.

]]> By: Pavel http://www.jpuddy.net/2006/03/18/remember-remember/#comment-132 Pavel Sun, 19 Mar 2006 04:50:04 +0000 http://www.jpuddy.net/blog/2006/03/remember-remember/#comment-132 Perhaps this film will require some greater <a href="http://www.bluelikejazz.co.uk/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=42&func=view&id=2079&catid=4" rel="nofollow">freedom of speach</a>, than will be afforded elsewhere? Perhaps this film will require some greater freedom of speach, than will be afforded elsewhere?

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