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V: for Vendetta or Vigilante
by Brad (movies profile)
Oct 10, 2007
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74 people found this review helpful
Somehow, in the end this film may have you itching to see London's Parliament building go up in flames. Now, that can't be a good thing... can it? Is our 'hero' the incarnation of justice, or Charles Bronson with a mask and a British accent? You decide.
Vendetta is based on the book, comic-book that is, of the '80s. Therein, a masked man (in the spirit of Guy Fawkes)named V comes to life and now threatens again to blow up London's house of Parliament as the Guy attempted centuries ago. You see, England in this post-plague time has fallen under a facist, Hitler-like rule where people are safe as long as they obey curfew and don't posses banned books. But V ain't gonna take it. To rally the sleepy populace out of their apathy, Parliament is going down!
V (and his agneda) crash into pretty young Evey (played nicely by Natalie Portman)and her reluctant (sorta) assoication with him grows, forcing her to make choices that will change everyone everything.
Here, "Vendetta" throws out many paralles between England then and now, and the current climate in America-- all thrown into one big mix. (Even our current Bird Flu is used tongue-in-cheek to keep the people's focus off their lack of civil liberties.)Its 9/11/2001, "1984", and 1945 all rolled into one.
"Vendetta" is well aware that we will compare the fall of Parliament to the fall of the Twin Towers. It then reminds us that this was the aim of the Guy, who is celebrated every November V in England. (Children in England celebrate by asking "Penny for the Guy!" the way they say "Trick-or-Treat" in America)...
So is V fact or fiction? past or future? Vigilante or Villian? The movie can provoke your thought, or you can just kick-back and enjoy watching him slice and dice with his knives and quote Shakespeare. The choices are all yours. |
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