Yes, it's an excuse to use a picture of Ms Portman
The movie stars Hugo Weaving, that's Agent Smith or the guy who looks like Sam Neil to the rest of us and Natalie Portman in a totalitarian-state England of the near future. The producers say that the movie, which is an adaptation of Alan Moore & David Lloyd's seminal graphic "is going to make people think". While I doubt that very much I wish we could avoid this scramble to ban anything that has anything remote resemble some horror that has gone on in the world recently even if, as it does at present, it's something on a own doorstep with 7/7.
There was a similar clamber after 9/11, when a scene in Spiderman was cut. It featured Spiderman moving between the two towers. I thought it was wrong to remove that and I think this is wrong now.
It sounds cheesy, but really it's just another blow for the Islamofascists or their fellow travellers. There shouldn't be an editing of our culture whatever it might be.
If people don't want to go and see it. They have a choice, which is kind of the point.
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