Advancing mankind

Rating: 10/10 (28 January 2007)

There will be other reviews commenting on the plot or the acting, both of which are excellent, but what I liked most about "V" was its clear opposition to the State. The hero did not call for bringing his tormentors to justice, he did not call for better people to take their place, he did not call for a return to constitutional rule. The State had an unblemished record of crime -- look at its record -- and living under its rule had become intolerable.
As Albert Jay Nock once wrote; "(State villainy) ought to be thrown at our public day after day, from every newspaper, periodical, lecture platform, and radio station in the land; and it ought to be backed up by a simple appeal to history, a simple invitation to look at the record."
"V" throws it at us from the big screen. Congratulations to those who made it happen.
George Ford Smith