Freedom Forever!
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished; a vital voice once venerated, now vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation now stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violent, vicious, and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta, held as votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and virtuous. Yet verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my great honor to meet you, and you may call me V."
Love! Love that it was a great movie. Love that it's a good adaptation of the comic. Love, love, just love! The scenes' sequences were altered from comic to screen, but it works. The alterations works!
Natalie Portman was spot on, Hugo Weaving acting with just his voice and body language was the cake. I am now convinced that actors with heavy injections of botox can act if they have the same chops as Weaving :P. Making Gordon gay was efficient for storytelling. And yes, the movie can be felt to be criticizing the Bush administration without subtlety, despite the setting being in England, but guess what, Bush deserves it. Because his administration is threatening the freedom that is the basis of what America is supposed to be about. At least from what I've read in classes. The flashback scenes with Valerie and Ruth was beautiful, and I nearly shed a tear. Nearly. The girl being shot while wearing the Guy Fawkes mask was an appropriate trigger for people standing up against the Fingermen. And the ending, with the soldiers vs the mass in Guy Fawkes' masks was a big bang to end the movie. Well, of course moving the blowing up of the Parliament building as the end and catalyst of the Chancellor's rezim ending was also effective. I really want to watch the movie again. Too bad I'm still broke, heh.
And... I really enjoyed this movie more than Crash, which I also watched last weekend. Crash, despite it's excellent photography, editing and sequencing, was a Lifetime movie with a bigger budget, bigger actors and better promotion. The many coincidences are manipulative tearjerkers.
Love! Love that it was a great movie. Love that it's a good adaptation of the comic. Love, love, just love! The scenes' sequences were altered from comic to screen, but it works. The alterations works!
Natalie Portman was spot on, Hugo Weaving acting with just his voice and body language was the cake. I am now convinced that actors with heavy injections of botox can act if they have the same chops as Weaving :P. Making Gordon gay was efficient for storytelling. And yes, the movie can be felt to be criticizing the Bush administration without subtlety, despite the setting being in England, but guess what, Bush deserves it. Because his administration is threatening the freedom that is the basis of what America is supposed to be about. At least from what I've read in classes. The flashback scenes with Valerie and Ruth was beautiful, and I nearly shed a tear. Nearly. The girl being shot while wearing the Guy Fawkes mask was an appropriate trigger for people standing up against the Fingermen. And the ending, with the soldiers vs the mass in Guy Fawkes' masks was a big bang to end the movie. Well, of course moving the blowing up of the Parliament building as the end and catalyst of the Chancellor's rezim ending was also effective. I really want to watch the movie again. Too bad I'm still broke, heh.
And... I really enjoyed this movie more than Crash, which I also watched last weekend. Crash, despite it's excellent photography, editing and sequencing, was a Lifetime movie with a bigger budget, bigger actors and better promotion. The many coincidences are manipulative tearjerkers.