V for...Oh, I can't be bothered.

A man whom I read, though sometimes don't understand because I don't have a doctorate in Philosophy, K-Punk, has joined the circus on V for Vendetta. He's criticizing, and he's not the first, the "watered down" content of the film.

The filmmakers, it's true, seem to have favoured a kind of catch-all liberalism instead of the comic's, presumably more "controversial", militant Anarchism.

The main criticism being that it's rather unclear what the terrorist known as 'V' is actually fighting for. We know he's fighting against the fascist regime, but what he's looking to replace it with is never discussed in the movie.

The Anarchists are, as usual, up in arms, decrying the Hollywood machine for corrupting the purity of Moore's original piece.

For what it's worth, I enjoyed the movie as a piece of entertainment. It didn't contain any especially radical or novel political content in my estimation - nothing you haven't seen in endless 'dystopian future' movies. Except, of course, for that ending - which is just about the most radical thing you're likely to see in a Hollywood movie.

Mark also elaborates on other things he's written, particularly on the difference between us rather docile British students and our raucous cousins in France.

And on the political possibilities of a radical nihilism.

Oh, and he fucking hates the Artic Monkeys - which can only be a good thing.