Trumping Victory
It’s not a review per se, well… nothing much I do is not that per se. While I was watching it and V was broadcasting his message from TV channel, dad was commenting ‘Anniyan Avatharithuvitan’. True. I feel that we are currently in revolution mode, we are on verge of something new, verge on breaking the shackles. I don’t know whether we are fed up with whatever happening or whether it’s because of boredom. People want to break free.
Now that TASMACs in highways are being closed, people associated with it are trying out new means to open it like having a long barricade more than 500 meters, which would make it fall under the Supreme Court rules. I actually liked the clever thinking there but when I got to know that in my locality a local plot could be used as for opening TASMAC, that’s when I was agitated. My father highlighted few ladies who had broken a wall were TASMAC was supposed to be opened in a residential area. If it happens in my area I want to do that. So we revolt only if it happens to us right. So what should V for Vendetta be, R for Revenge or R for Revolution. As it eventually happens for a larger cause I feel it should be R for Revolution.
Wachowski’s are such great writers. Don’t know how much of action sequences they were involved because it had a certain ‘Matrix’ effect to it. In spite of being folks from US their writing really worked for UK premise. Excellent English. Even though I didn’t like the all ‘v’ dialogue, the other dialogues were really good. The ‘v’ dialogues looked like a bit overdone.
The opening of the film when the Voice of London, Lewis Prothero (Roger Allam) reminded me very much of Trump. May be they could predict the future. I loved the intentional/unintentional references of Hitler through Sutler. Hitler, Sutler, does it ring a bill. The camera angles, the way Sutler is positioned on stage and the flag bore a lot of resemblance to the Nazi party.
Natalie Portman above all was an excellent choice. She has a very likeable face, a genuine smile where we’d feel that we should protect her. So when a girl with history gets affected we naturally would sympathize with her. That’s what happened here. We become ‘V’ for her.
I loved the scene where she goes as a little girl. I don’t know what was done to achieve that look, there was something different about the camera angles. She indeed looked like a little girl.
The symbol ‘V’ couldn’t have been more perfect, a man from cell five ‘V’, a story from Valerie and finally E’v’ey, a ‘V’ in making, all standing out for one ‘V’ – Victory.
In the TV station incident I felt that Hugo Weaving did pass through unmasked and another ‘V’ came – does that symbolize the quote “But who was he really? What was he like? We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I’ve witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I’ve seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them… but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it… ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love…”And what about the climax, we see everyone alive. What does that mean.
In a film filled by a number of quotes, my favorite was “People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.” What was yours?
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