Mind-expanding

Rating: 10/10 (5 April 2006)

I thought "V for Vendetta" was an eye-opening experience. People have said that the movie is just a platform for making terrorism look good, but I beg to differ. "V"'s acts of terrorism are almost justified compared to what the movie's government did to him and others. "V for Vendetta" showed me that terrorism is an ideal, and one open to interpretation. To quote V himself: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". If you go see this movie, and I strongly suggest that you do, I beg you to do so with that epithet in mind, please. It doesn't necessarily point to any specific group and say that they are to blame. Rather, the movie tries to remind us that any government has the chance of becoming a dictatorship, and in the face of such a government, terrorism takes on a new meaning.