V for Vendetta
From the very beginning, I liked this movie. I mean, what is there not to like: It met every single of my expectations of a better Hollywood movie. The main characters were engaging, it was very easy to follow the story quickly and swiftly and most of all, it was an engaging yet relaxing thing to do on my trip to university. That was all that I wanted, and I found myself very interested in what is going to happen next by 1/3 of the movie, the time when I arrived at university.
I am done with the film by now and have never seen a movie that started so high and fell so low in my esteem. (In fact, it didn’t reach the very bottom: If “JSA” is a 10 and “A Good Lawyer’s Wife” is a 1, then “V for Vendetta” is still a 7 on that scale.)
While it started off in quite a stylish and sophisticated fashion, with V quoting some good books and giving off the air of perfectly knowing what he does, the film showed more and more of its silliness through its course. This all cumulated in this incredibly silly last scene in which those soldiers didn’t even shoot – aaahhhh! It’s probably the point when I realized that the whole film is a little too unrealistic for its own good, and it’s the only mass demonstration scene I have seen in my life that did not move me in any way.
So, this horrible scene aside, I see that the film has its merits. I think that it had a good story to tell, and if it inspired young people to delve deeper into the subject and, say, read “1984” because of that – great. Apart from that, I have found the film to be at least equally gripping as “The Dark Knight” was, and I am glad that it was more about content, dialogue and storytelling than action scenes in which it is actually only important who dies. Would I recommend this movie then? Oh yes I would. It’s extremely stylish, a whole lot of fun to watch as long as you don’t take it for serious and it stars La Loliportman in a nice role.