V for Vendetta morning after
example · film: V for Vendetta ·
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In the final scene of V for Vendetta thousands of unarmed Londoners march on parliament and the people take over; Žižek says he would sell his mother into slavery to see Part 2, what happens the day after the victory.
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“I am ready to sell my mother into slavery in order to see V for Vendetta part 2”
“I would sell my mother into slavery to see another film V for Vendetta part two what happens then the next day”
“I'm ready to sell my mother into slavery to see a movie called V for Vendetta Part 2: What Did They Do the Next Day?”
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In the final scene of V for Vendetta thousands of unarmed Londoners march on parliament and the people take over; Žižek says he would sell his mother into slavery to see Part 2, what happens the day after the victory., illustrating the morning after,revolution-violence
The film ends with jubilant people storming parliament. Žižek wants to see Part 2: what happens the next day? The film refuses this question because the ecstatic moment is the entire political vision., illustrating the morning after,boring revolution,limits of spectacular politics
V for Vendetta ends with crowds storming parliament, 'The End.' Žižek says he would sell his mother into slavery to see V for Vendetta Part 2: What Did They Do the Next Day? The left fetishizes the ecstatic rupture without addressing the day after., illustrating the day after,the left's strategic impasse,fidelity to the event
At the end of V for Vendetta, the crowd storms Parliament, but Žižek would sell his (dead) mother to see a sequel called 'V for Vendetta Part 2: What Will They Do Next Day?', representing the left's failure to think beyond spectacular revolt., illustrating left and revolutionary enthusiasm,the morning after
Žižek mocks the movie V for Vendetta for ending with the 'morning after', people breaking into parliament, without showing the boring, necessary work of governing, which he argues is what true social change requires., illustrating organization of what to do after an alcoholic evening
The film ends with a triumphant crowd storming Parliament, but Žižek says he would sell his mother into slavery to see Part 2, what happens the morning after. The film exemplifies false transgression: ecstatic revolt with no structural follow-through., illustrating false transgression,the morning after revolt,carnival and return to normal