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So I watched "V wie Vendetta" tonight. Minor spoilers ahead, perhaps, dunno what exactly I'll be rambling about.
I can't say what made this movie this good for me. Important is, I think, you had the right dose of everything in it, right dose fighting, talking, analyzing.... Time ran by and I didn't notice. I had never heard anything of this movie before and had no idea what the plot was about. Which was probably good, otherwise I might have objected watching this movie XD But I dunno.
You have that system, similar to the Third Reich, with some "brainwashing" included, the Party controlling everything and everyone. But there is this "terrorist" and the Party tries to cover it up and make up stories. But the people notice. And this "terrorist" only tries to wake the people and let them see, that they're not protected but caged. It only takes this one person (and some murders, okay) and some drastic actions and he really is able to wake the people. I think it's amazing, what he achieves. He lost everything before and went out to get his revenge, which, like a snowball, planned by him, causes the avalanche. Just this one person, out of selfish desire, freed the people. And in the end, which he doesn't even see, because the main actress, which he of course became attracted to after various meetings (which is not as cliche as it might sound right now, I really do hate cliche, but this is so not cliche (mainly), it's brilliant!) let him see, that he was only driven by his hatred. But he wasn't really cruel, like the Party for example, he didn't torture (...) and his "victims" weren't innocent at all. So he sacrificed himself in the end. In the meaning, he didn't see the "new world" which arose after his Final Attack, which was approved of by the people and even supported by it.
I loved watching the mass of people walking towards the Parliament Building, the military which was stationed there didn't stop them, because all the commander-in-chief had already been killed by V ("the terrorist"). Then the firework started.
I can't catch every thought and feeling and can't explain it to someone who didn't watch it, probably, though without writing... words always fail me *g* But this very moment I believed that people can change things. When the mass is in motion, nothing can stop it. And if well done, even a single person can do this. Problem is, it works both ways.
I watched the "Untergang" last week, so I have good comparison at the moment. The similarity just struck me, the thought that at any time the same can happen again. That the people makes history. So I'll think about this movie some more. ^^
I can't say what made this movie this good for me. Important is, I think, you had the right dose of everything in it, right dose fighting, talking, analyzing.... Time ran by and I didn't notice. I had never heard anything of this movie before and had no idea what the plot was about. Which was probably good, otherwise I might have objected watching this movie XD But I dunno.
You have that system, similar to the Third Reich, with some "brainwashing" included, the Party controlling everything and everyone. But there is this "terrorist" and the Party tries to cover it up and make up stories. But the people notice. And this "terrorist" only tries to wake the people and let them see, that they're not protected but caged. It only takes this one person (and some murders, okay) and some drastic actions and he really is able to wake the people. I think it's amazing, what he achieves. He lost everything before and went out to get his revenge, which, like a snowball, planned by him, causes the avalanche. Just this one person, out of selfish desire, freed the people. And in the end, which he doesn't even see, because the main actress, which he of course became attracted to after various meetings (which is not as cliche as it might sound right now, I really do hate cliche, but this is so not cliche (mainly), it's brilliant!) let him see, that he was only driven by his hatred. But he wasn't really cruel, like the Party for example, he didn't torture (...) and his "victims" weren't innocent at all. So he sacrificed himself in the end. In the meaning, he didn't see the "new world" which arose after his Final Attack, which was approved of by the people and even supported by it.
I loved watching the mass of people walking towards the Parliament Building, the military which was stationed there didn't stop them, because all the commander-in-chief had already been killed by V ("the terrorist"). Then the firework started.
I can't catch every thought and feeling and can't explain it to someone who didn't watch it, probably, though without writing... words always fail me *g* But this very moment I believed that people can change things. When the mass is in motion, nothing can stop it. And if well done, even a single person can do this. Problem is, it works both ways.
I watched the "Untergang" last week, so I have good comparison at the moment. The similarity just struck me, the thought that at any time the same can happen again. That the people makes history. So I'll think about this movie some more. ^^