Great interview with Alan Moore

This was one of the things I objected to in the recent film, where it seems to be, from the script that I read, sort of recasting it as current American neo-conservatism vs. current American liberalism. There wasn't a mention of anarchy as far as I could see. The fascism had been completely defanged. I mean, I think that any references to racial purity had been excised, whereas actually, fascists are quite big on racial purity.

He's mostly right here, and I wish I'd gotten into that a little more in my review. The film flinches away from making V a proper anarchist, but in a way the echoes of the current political situation make it more challening. It's not like the fascism it presents isn't thoroughly nasty, either, and there's quite a bit of talk about getting rid of Muslims and the absence of non-white people in the films speaks for itself. Anyway, Moore's full of challenging ideas, as always. And he gets more fascinatingly bitter as the years go by.