A questing work, eloquently and with an enormous symbolic power, historical depth and context, a brand present in Alan Moore work

Rating: 8/10 (13 September 2016)

When Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady, came to power in England, it was the trigger for that Alan Moore created a comic in a futuristic reality where a totalitarian power takes charge of the country using tactics of censorship, repression, based violence torture, persecution, and have full control of the media, especially television, and also the military. In the comics, the story was defined as a conflict between a fascist state and anarchism, as the story of the film was changed by the Wachowski sisters to fit in the modern political context
As in the original work, the political bias that permeates the whole plot has never been so high and the current before the communist and oppressive governments with his people, as we see in North Korea under Kim Jong-un command, or Cuba dominated ago long by the Castro family, or the government of Nicolas Maduro, leader of the successor populist Hugo Chavez in Venezuela.
James McTeigue works with the script and can also extract good performances from his cast, even if at times the film accelerates and leaves little time for the performances stand out. Hugo Weaving is impeccable. V is a mysterious man of great culture and is moved by two feelings: vengeance - acquired from an experiment that is being revealed gradually - and freedom from the oppressors. His mask even refers to another "terrorist" English Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up the English Parliament in 1605. Even without showing his face even once throughout the film, the actor, after standing out as Agent Smith in Matrix trilogy, V embodies masterfully. With no chance to show their facial expressions, Weaving shows a repertoire of body language and vocal intonations used in full measure. The powerful voice can pass all the feelings of the character, even without seeing their real expression behind the mask. The actor makes it a more romantic character that the graphic and gives credibility to inevitable attraction between him and Evey.
Natalie Portman as Evey Hammond, who developed both the English accent as the character itself, is at first of innocence and fragility to even the heaviest scenes of torture in certain evident moment of the film. It's an interesting character who undergoes a real transformation over the year that goes the plot of the story. On a fragile girl to a strong woman ready to fight against tyranny established in his country. John Hurt as Adam Sutler, the high chancellor, brings us the perfect figure of a dictator, clearly inspired by Hitler. His speeches full of hatred, intolerance and who is willing to have more and more power in society, combating all to think of opposing their government reveal all its instability and intolerance - even only seen via video, its strength and They can pass the necessary threat.
Another point we should highlight is the visual composition of the film. The photographer Adrian Biddle knows transmit a Darkest weather, gloomy, using more monochromatic palettes, through the idea of ​​a nation dominated, trapped and suffering from the domain of an austere government. This climate also won all the appropriate treatment on the soundtrack to Dario Marianelli. His music is present almost all the time and know how to grow in moments of tension and excitement.
A government that imprisons, tortures and kills blacks and homosexuals; eliminates any trace of culture, such as music, film and visual arts; and manipulates the people through the media. References to Hitler and the Nazi regime are not coincidental. "V for Vendetta" is clearly a government oppression of allegory, not only in societies of fascist / communist governments, but also in governments societies regarded as democratic, that use democracy as a mere instrument for the seizure of power. Are governments with communist characteristics that wish to impose political censorship and opinions, who want to end the freedom of the press, imposing control of the internet and media in general, and not abdicate of being in power, not accepting the democratic alternation of power. And above all, governments are urging the speech separatist hatred and class struggle, inciting the poor against the rich, us against them, black against white, civilians against military and so on.
"V for Vendetta" does not shy when dealing with controversial issues, such as homosexuality, pedophilia enter the Catholic Church, totalitarianism, Islamophobia and terrorism. His controversial story and the themes have been the target of criticism and praise from sociopolitical groups. Libertarians use the film's ideas as a conservative statement against government intervention in the lives of citizens. Anarchists propagate political theory of anarchism.
McTeigue is keen not to highlight the spectacular action. There are enough scenes of this nature throughout the film, all very well choreographed and impressive. Especially the fast and precise movements V, especially by showing a skilled wielder knives. However, some scenes are very exaggerated, as the struggle of the masked hero against the men of Creedy. The scenes of the explosion of parliament and the invasion of TV station also worth mentioning, as well as the torture scenes, especially those that told the letter of Valerie, through sensitive and poetic scenes that demonstrate the persecution and repression of homosexuals in general.
Note easily in this work that "V for Vendetta" is much more than a simple adaptation of a comic book to film. It is a questing work, eloquently and with an enormous symbolic power, historical depth and context, a brand present in the works of Alan Moore. The film knows how to offer the highest quality entertainment, able to combine entertainment, ideas and reflection to fully satisfactorily. The mask used by V has become a symbol, but it is even necessary to mask we cause a revolution? To what extent the society we live in has traces of that oppressive government of his people?