Vini, Vici and Natalie Portman
Apr. 7th, 2006 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eumeliaYes, I saw "V for Vendetta".
And I very much enjoyed it.
Hugo Weaving is a master.
Natalie Portman is her usual pretty, charming, self.
And we must all -
"Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot..."
England has a bloody history.
It is extra bloody because it is a long history and it interlocks heavily on almost the entire worlds history.
"V for Vendetta" is the story of a dystopia brought down with the help of its history.
When Alan Moore wrote the Graphic Novel, it was in the midst of the Thatcher admin. which was a notoriously political conservative period in GB.
The novel was a reaction to that admin. and it fit with the times.
Throughout the movie I couldn't help but compare it to "1984" and a "Brave New World", but the inevitable comparison was to Nazi Germany, with it's own Gestapo ("Finger-men" so called because they are the Fingers of God") and it's own Furor (the High Chancellor). The country's motto is "Power through unity, unity through faith", meaning basically, that just like in every other totalitarian government the Different was Undesired.
All through the movie we are shown Holocaust scenes and Mengale-like laboratories, which were disturbing in the fact that they were so sanitized (unlike in other WW2 movies, where we get the feeling of filth where the prisoners are kept).
The meaning of the movie, however, is not the meaning of the graphic novel, in that we are living in a post 911, war on Afghanistan, war on Iraq era, not a post Thatcher era.
And it was presented as such, not to mention that the producers and directors are American and the mindset of the Brits is not that of the Yanks!
All in all it was a good movie, the special effects were superb, the acting was great with many a marvelous actors - Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt and lots and lots more.
This movie better win a few awards on that alone!
It could have been better, but it was damn good Comic Book Movie (unlike Spiderman two, which the only good thing there was Alfred Molina!).
And I very much enjoyed it.
Hugo Weaving is a master.
Natalie Portman is her usual pretty, charming, self.
And we must all -
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot..."
England has a bloody history.
It is extra bloody because it is a long history and it interlocks heavily on almost the entire worlds history.
"V for Vendetta" is the story of a dystopia brought down with the help of its history.
When Alan Moore wrote the Graphic Novel, it was in the midst of the Thatcher admin. which was a notoriously political conservative period in GB.
The novel was a reaction to that admin. and it fit with the times.
Throughout the movie I couldn't help but compare it to "1984" and a "Brave New World", but the inevitable comparison was to Nazi Germany, with it's own Gestapo ("Finger-men" so called because they are the Fingers of God") and it's own Furor (the High Chancellor). The country's motto is "Power through unity, unity through faith", meaning basically, that just like in every other totalitarian government the Different was Undesired.
All through the movie we are shown Holocaust scenes and Mengale-like laboratories, which were disturbing in the fact that they were so sanitized (unlike in other WW2 movies, where we get the feeling of filth where the prisoners are kept).
The meaning of the movie, however, is not the meaning of the graphic novel, in that we are living in a post 911, war on Afghanistan, war on Iraq era, not a post Thatcher era.
And it was presented as such, not to mention that the producers and directors are American and the mindset of the Brits is not that of the Yanks!
All in all it was a good movie, the special effects were superb, the acting was great with many a marvelous actors - Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt and lots and lots more.
This movie better win a few awards on that alone!
It could have been better, but it was damn good Comic Book Movie (unlike Spiderman two, which the only good thing there was Alfred Molina!).
