V review

[cascadianista]

jwz had this to say about V for Vendetta a while back and I keep thinking about it so I might as well repost it and say I agree, despite never having read the comics, er, graphic novels, and having no interest in doing so:"I think the biggest mis-step the adaptation made was to make Evie [sic] basically lower-middle-class. The comic had a real Handmaid's Tale feel to it, where women were essentially property, and it opens with Evie's first night as a prostitute. By starting her off with a corporate job, they took a lot of the desperation out of her. Likewise, I thought they didn't really sell why the people were ready for revolution. All we ever see of the regular citizens is them complacently sitting in the pub or living room watching TV. What made them get up and march? The comic handled this with the destruction of the surveilance network, and the resultant crackdown with government thugs in the streets; the movie only barely hinted at that."
(It's Evey. WHAT A LOVELY BABY NAME.)