a zealot at the cine

i'm a lucky bastard to have gotten sneak preview tickets to "V For Vendetta". yes it had the violence and bloodflow of a true DC comic, but this movie totally got to me. maybe it's the way the wachowskis did their thing. maybe it was weaving and portman's acting. i dunno. but i yearned to share the ZEAL that they shared. i craved it because it so motivated me. a zealous commitment to a cause can change history. i suppose it can also ruin your soul. maybe the latter happens more often. again, i wouldn't know. but certainly apathy and complacency are no better as alternatives. i think i can imagine some more revolutionary ways to approach a revolution than the "way of the zealot", but at this moment in time, i must admit i respect the zealots out there, for knowing what pushes them onward, for their willingness to give up their lives for (what they see to be) the greater good, and for taking the actual living of life seriously. whether or not i accept all their premises and follow their strategy, i'm indebted to the zealots of my time, and those of history, for from them i can/will summon courage, daring, passion, and resolve. i'm gonna try to continually think about all this...about what it takes to TRULY CHANGE the world we know. not with threat, or coercion, or compliance...but with the beckoning call of a dream.