Perspectives on terrorism (in film)

Imagine that you hear a story on the news: we catch a known terrorist, the police and FBI are integrating him. His known associates break into a building, kill 50 police, and blow up the bottom floor of the building. They steal a helicopter and break out their friend, killing anyone who gets in their way. They then proceed to crash the helicopter into a building, possibly killing hundreds. In the end, they get away. Sound familiar?

Flash forward to the future. London. A rogue solo bomber blows up the Old Bailey, (google it). Are there people inside? Unknown, we are still sifting through the rubble. This rogue terrorist then breaks into a news station, and proceeds to kill Innocent police. Guys that are probably just doing their job, and like the good benefits that a government job gives them. Instead, their kids will grow up with out a father. This bomber then gets on the television, and rants about some tyrannical government. Whether he is right or not, he is still a criminal who blows up buildings and kills government workers. How well are you going to listen to him?
Going back to the first group of terrorists, you are in The Matrix. You are not some holy warrior, working with the human resistance, doing crazy flips and shooting guns. You are just a father of three working at subway, trying to make ends meet. Little do you know, that you are just a battery in some machine’s power source somewhere. But you don’t know that, you are just living your life and wanting some one to do something about people getting killed. You don’t really understand why these people in black trench coats keep killing people. When they kill an agent, a person dies. All that is left of them is the person the agent downloaded into.
You live in London, and the government sucks. They kill people and arrest people for no reason. How did it get to this point? Oh, that’s right, you were scared about some virus killing everyone, so you gave government tons of power to sort it out. But wait! You’re still a democracy, right? You elected a dictator? That doesn’t make much sense. Your country has been a democracy for a long time. How did it get to this point? By not going to protest or give a crap that your vote got taken away. In that case, you deserve to be ruled. Sounds harsh, but in the movie V for Vendetta, that’s what it has come to.

When V blows up the building, you do not know whether there are people inside. That detail is just glossed over. It’s at night, granted, but are there security guards or janitors in there? These are the same people He is trying to free from the evil government.

These movies are both great, but in the end, I am thinking how other people who live in these universes would view what’s happening. Remember, you are not Natalie Portman, you don’t have V explaining everything to you. You’re just some random person. Now, this begs the question, “do the Wachoski brothers like terrorists?” They wrote the screen plays for both these movies. The “V for Vendetta” graphic novel was written by Allen Moore. He is a great writer, but that dude is nuts. He seems to have it in for governments and corporations. The Wachoski’s still choose to bring these movies to the masses. Seems like kind of a strong message when you look at it like that. Maybe they do not even know they are doing it, or I could be blowing this out of proportion, but I think it’s fun to think about.