Steady entertainment -- keeps moving -- brilliant film

Rating: Null/10 (6 August 2011)

Such deep characters, so beautifully written, so much symbolism, we have typical beauty and the beast heroes set in a film so relevant to our times that it's almost painful to watch. Some beautiful turns of phrase – so much so that it's worth watching over and over again – that the hero is masked lets us both not identify with him on a personal level and yet totally identify with him on a much larger symbolic level and at one point his turn of phrase implies I am more than a face - at another, he states that beneath the mask is more than face there are ideas (which is why he can't die - symbolically) – the masks again, later in the film disguise individuals acting in concert for one idea – a really great use of a dramatic symbol -- watch for the falling dominoes and remember "they will fall one domino at a time" --- this is almost always true of chaotic fundamentalist groups, politicians and nations.
Watch for the references to a recent presidential administration (that impliedly led to the situation at hand in the film) – watch for the symbolism in Creedy's closing statement to V you have nothing  we have guns – even without the intense play on symbolism the storyline Is beautiful Wonderfully filmed at angles that best portray the feelings the writers want to evoke – a lot of ground level filming lots of intense close ups – watch for amazing slow mo of the knives near the end (beware not for small kids) but the filming, the cinematography is wonderful.
Beautifully acted – so much power behind a voice and mask that you don't even need facial expressions from Weaving and a fabulous portrayal of Evey by Natalie Portman – Stephen Frye shines as always – what a lovable character he comes off with (ditto for his psychiatrist role in NCIS) just a super good guy always characterizing an amazing sense of humor- This is now an "old" film but so worth watching if we can take something from it – there is power in numbers - we CAN change the world and what we are currently doing has us on a path for certain destruction – this was Parliament but could so have been the Whitehouse, Congress, a representation of oppressive political power in the world.
I love this film and if it has a cult following, I am a cult member!