Marvelous!

Rating: 9/10 (31 March 2006)

I would like to say a few words about the movie i saw a couple of hours ago. V for Vendetta. At first i would like to emphasize the fact that i am a huge fan of Natalie Portman. I think that she will live to become one of the best actresses of her, and thank god mine, time. So don't get me wrong if i am a bit over-thrilled about this movie and not objective at all. I was too with Leon The Professional and she was only 14 years old. Back to my story then, i don't want to tire you with my obsessions.
I think the movie is about ideas. About the liberty we people have to express our opinions freely nowadays. It's about hope for good things to come in all dire circumstances. When all hope had faded..I found many parallelisms in the movie with our world today. There were scenes when the Chancellor made speeches, that looked awful familiar with Hitler. Same colors, same passion combined with insanity, same intensity in the man's face, same rush for power. The destruction of the parliament, besides it's historic reference to England was in some way similar to the destruction of 9th of September. The fear that is brooding in the minds of the people of this world today, is the same fear that is being harvested in the minds of the people in the movie. I believe that everybody could and found that parallelism in the theater today. It was quite clear at that point that the director wanted to say something more than the comic was trying to accomplish. "Hope is a good thing, probably the best of things"(Tim Robins - Shawshank Redemption). A line in the movie moved me, i think it moved a lot of people. "People should not be afraid of the power of their government, the government should be afraid of the power of their people." We see in the face of the redeemer (Hugo Weaving) a man, who is trying to wake his fellow citizens from the hibernation of their minds. To change things as they once were. He does it not only for his personal revenge, but to shake the others around him. To make a difference. Hugo says in the movie: "I am wearing the mask for so long, i no longer remember who's beneath it." A government that is feeding fear to it's people with misinformation, a perfect brooding machine whose crops will benefit only little. It's all about control. People with power will become more powerful, only to produce more fear over the weak-minded. I cried when William Wallace yelled Freedom in Braveheart. One person CAN change things. But it is not the person who changes things, it's the idea that he carries within. I wish i could say more about V, but i have already tired you. Maybe i'm just wrong and this was a movie about kniVes and it should have more fight scenes and more Natalie Portman.
But that's just me. What difference can one man make?