V For Vendetta, From A to V
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V For Vendetta is a provocative, beautiful, exciting, moving, funny, disturbing and stylish film adapted from the comic strips written by Alan Moore and drawn by David Lloyd in the 1980s. The comics were an outraged response to the repression, racism and homophobia that Moore saw in the Thatcher government. Featuring a Guy Fawkes-masked super-anti-hero who wipes out the senior figures in a fascist dictatorship, as well as recruiting an apolitical teenager and converting her to his cause.
V For Vendetta set in a London of a not too distant future, where xenophobic reactionaries have seized control of Britain to stomp out homosexuals, Muslims, the diseased and other “undesirables.” Individual rights and personal freedom are sacrificed for severe law and order, and people are subject to the whims of a vicious secret police that can haul them off to “reclamation” facilities on a whim.
V For Vendetta follows the campaign of terrorist anti-hero ‘V’ (Hugo Weaving), a man in a Guy Fawkes mask planning to succeed where Fawkes failed in blowing up the Houses of Parliament as a blow to Adam Sutler’s (Hurt) totalitarian government. Meanwhile, he also aims to complete a personal vendetta against the people who turned him into the crusader he has become. In rescuing a young woman (Portman) from a trio of would-be rapists one night, V finds a new ally and disciple.
It’s set in the near future, when the government is poisoning its people, both literally and figuratively. The movie asks whether they should just take it or whether they should do what the French did when they got tired of making Marie Antoinette’s cakes, Americans did when they grew sick of redcoats and Russians did when they couldn’t stand kowtowing to a bunch of inbred creeps who worshipped Faberge eggs.
Evey (Portman), a go-fer for the state-censored television service, is saved from ravagement at the hands of the police by V, who from behind his Fawkes mask and black cape flamboyantly spouts Shakespeare and carries out a one-man campaign of terrorism against the government.
Portman is at the center of some disturbing sequences whose images recall the Holocaust. The movie strikes an uneasy nerve. This is a story where you’re clearly rooting for the terrorist, and the closing images are both horrific in a post-Sept. 11 world - and perversely exhilarating.
Instead of being a politically-based swashbuckler as the publicity may have us believe, V For Vendetta is more a ponderous thought-provoking political thriller. Keeping the explosions and flying daggers to a minimum, V is more concerned in an examination of freedoms of speech, information, religion and sexuality. These potentially dry issues are wrapped up in an enthralling storyline as small tidbits of the lead character’s history and motivations are revealed.
“I like to think that I’m always involved with cool movies,†says producer Joel Silver (“The Matrix,†“Die Hard,†“Lethal Weaponâ€). “I’m not sure what makes some movies cool, but in this case, we just followed the material.â€
A major difference between “The Matrix†and “V for Vendetta,†however, is in the main character. Neo was a sympathetic hero; V is not always so lovable.
It also gives plenty of weight to a cheap, tacked-on love story, and tiresome fight scenes proving that The Matrix ruined action movies as surely as the Farrelly Brothers killed comedy. These are among the more ridiculous elements that have been inserted to try and tear college males away from March Madness on Sports Center and pump up opening bos office receipts. First-time director James McTeigue handles some of the material awkwardly, eliminating much of Moore artistry and poetry and pacing things a little too quickly. This is especially problematic in the film’s first act, where the terrorist attacks begin too quickly for us to get a feel of the world we’re supposed to want to see destroyed.
The movie is bound to be controversial, since V’s justifications for his methods aren’t much different than the reasoning of murderers who have shot up abortion clinics, for instance. But if audiences come away from “V for Vendetta” thinking it advocates murdering world leaders, they are missing the point. V and his actions are a metaphor (the guy wears a mask, for crying out loud) for the idea that sometimes institutions get so twisted and evil, the only way to fix them is to tear them down and start fresh.
As for the cast, they’re all fairly capable, especially Stephen Rea, who despite looking tired and confused by not being in a Neil Jordan movie, manages to almost distract from Nathalie Portman’s terrible British accent. Overall, though V for Vendetta is bound to upset purists and probably Alan Moore himself, it serves its purpose and delivers its message effectively, and entertainingly.
This futuristic terrorist thriller V For Vendetta blew up its rivals at the weekend box office in North America, according to studio estimates. The film’s distributor Warner Bros Pictures, said the opening was broadly in line with expectations. Hugo Weaving stars as the masked man, V, and Natalie Portman as his sidekick.
V For Vendetta sold about tickets worth some $US26.1 million ($A35.43 million) across the United States and Canada in the three days beginning March 17 and become tops US box office.
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