The movie was good enough to remind me of the ideas I started to understand about 10 years ago when I read the book. At that time, the book had become a slow underground success, and when it started getting a lot of attention, the literary critics tended to bash it like they are bashing this movie. As a modern-day movie goer, I would like to have seen a more polished and better executed movie to portray these ideas, BUT it still reached me, and I was inspired again, even more than I was by the book because there has been time for these insights to gestate in me. Human evolution. Spiritual evolution. This movie is more about the insights than the story that encases them. So if you are interested in possibilities of the future human journey, you just might get what you are looking for in this film.
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V for Vendetta
(2005)
Disturbing, but worth it.
20 March 2006
Warning: Spoilers
The more I think about this movie, the more I like it. Yeah, it's hard to watch some of the actions in this movie, mainly because all the horrendous ones are not done by the obvious villains. V's agenda is disturbing, but more importantly, it can cause us to ask ourselves why it disturbs us. This is not a simple good vs. evil movie. We never see V's face, but Evy says, in effect, that he is all of us. There is always a part of us that will eventually destroy our rulers to regain our freedom. And yet, will we always let it come to that point? The point where the only way out is violent destruction. Are there any real innocents in this scenario? You can spot a few in this movie -- before they die. These are the kinds of significant questions this movie can cause us to ponder -- if you go beneath the surface and look for the ideas. I'd go see it again.
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