Another one of those don't take no bullshit from the government movies. The Wachowski brothers know how to play with the emotions of the audience, and they got back Hugo Weaving for V, almost a reprise of his Agent Smith role. He talks in the same hateful voice. Not that I recognized it when I saw it, but I do now that I know who the masked guy was.
The story is pretty straightforward... V is a freak of the government's messed up nature, formed mostly by a hitlerish fascist ruler and a bunch of hitlerish fascist ruler wannabes. V topples it by blowing a couple of buildings up and killing everyone he dislikes in the government. Evee and a couple of other blokes who thinks the government is mostly "bollocks" help him/ are manipulated by him. The grand finale is the parliament building blowing up, replicating the Guy Fawkes attempt.
Remember, remember, the fifth of November, The gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.
Funny how many such movies are coming up. Even in India, watched Yuva only this morning, and Rang De Basanti was another example. All these films represent the real political scenario... as Evee father would put it,
artists use lies to show the truth, while politicians use lies to cover it.
Not all dialogues are good however, there is a good measure of
A revolution without dancing is a revolution not worth having.
The good thing about Vendetta is that although it shows the future, the technology is not in your face like Minority Report. The focus is on the people and how some of them abuse technology. Pretty realistic portrayal actually.
V never removes his mask, although he comes close to doing it at least twice. One guy I was watching the movie with hated the movie for that. Like not showing the face of a masked guy is stupid, he thought. This was more or less as laughable as people who were expecting Nana Patekar to hear till the very end of Khamoshi... That was probably why Bhansali drove home the point of Rani Mukherjee's disabilities in Black over and over and over again.
Clever use of the mask... The focus was on the vendetta, and how one person brought it about, but this one person could be an anonymous anybody. In fact, he was the combined personification of everyone in the film resenting the government and finally speaking out and doing something. They even say this indirectly towards the end.
This one has to be given a thumbs up... Ideas ARE immortal.
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