V for Vendetta

[elfs]

So, last night lisakit and I went out to see V for Vendetta. It was an okay flick, and yes, the tagline, "People should not be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people," was quite effective. It has a signature Wachowski momement (too signature, in my opinion, it detracted from the whole film). I will say the actor who played V did a fabulous job of communicating emotion strictly with his hands and body language, almost a mime routine. And his introductory patter is nifty, but really, that's about it. Unfortunately, it sags a bit in the middle, which isn't terribly rare for a movie like this.

All in all, a nice time. I was glad to have some time to go to a movie with a friend. I don't have that very often.

Comments

[kenshardik]

What they got right in the film (Rose's inerrogation, V confronting the doctor in her bedroom) they got very right. What they got wrong (Evie's job, the ending of the film, Prothero) they got wrong enough to bother me. I think it's fine as a "modernized" re-telling of the V story, but not as an adaptation of the original. I felt the LotR trilogy found the right balance between staying faithful to the original, changing things that work in the book but not in film, and modernizations to make the film accessible to today's audiences (e.g. Arwen).