I love this film. I’ve wasted most of my weekend watching it (and re-watching it). Has anyone else seen it?
If you haven't heard about it... it's adapted by the Wachowski Brothers (The Matrix) and set in a Totalitarian-London where one man tries to do what Guy Fawkes failed to do and blow up Parliament.
It's quite political and I suppose it's about a battle between freedom and the state and it's quite un-nerving seeing what could happen if we gave the government our total obedience and the ideas are probably not that far-fetched any more! (Think ID cards etc…)
Anyway, go watch it for yourself and make up your own mind.
Naturally it has some kick-ass fight scenes, Natalie Portman has an unbelievably sexy English accent (even if it really is not that convincing) and Hugo Weaving as V is brilliant!
It's got some pretty interesting dialogue in it as well:
Voilà ! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.