Freedom

Rating: 8/10 (4 March 2009)

Freedom. Everyone wants freedom. Everybody wants to be free to do whatever he or she wants. And nobody wants to live when he or she is told what to do or even what to think. Because they know the difference. If you have lived all your life in a society like in "V for vendetta" (or twenty years ago in SSRS) it seems to be the way it should be. But there you go  one man comes and says that it's not the right way to live and begins to fight.
I've heard from my parents what it's like to live on the red side of the Berlin's wall. And, of course, I've heard about Nazis. So here you go, you see British people living like Germany seventy years ago. And it's OK to them. But! A masked man (Zoro? Batman?) comes and says NO! to the system. It's heroic but Not true and too true.
The girl, Evey (sound like V, wonder why) doesn't do anything against the system even if it has taken her parents. Until V shows. He opens her eyes and teach not to fear the system. And finally the girl understands who and what is real. Dances, laugh, old movies. Things which are forbidden. People are afraid of the system, but system is more afraid of people's consciousness.
V wakes the people, wakes Evey, but die in the end. This is very heroic. He frees the society and leaves, doesn't become a leader like the one he killed. It's good. The movie is also good. I can't help myself not to think about the country I'm living, Lithuania, twenty years ago. But the movie is really good.
And, just one more rhetorical question. What happened to the society when it got its freedom back? Did it know how to use it? Anyway, it's lot more easy to get the freedom back than to know the limits of using it.