Wednesday, March 22, 2006
V for Victory
I'm ashamed to say that i postponed a movie-date with a friend all for the sake of my mountain-of-a workload, only to succumb to the temptation.Yep, if my friend is reading this (you know who you are), really sorry, but i couldn't resist! :P
And i'm glad my friend caught the movie on his own too, which, help alleviate a wee-bit of the guilt feeling.
I log onto MSN. By the looks of the nicks on msn, i gather that many have watched V for vendetta, and are, in a way, impressed, influenced or intellectually-stimulated by the movie. i have nicks quoting directly from V like 'People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people', and from the very first few lines of the movie, ' ..of gunpowder, treason and plot' that hints heavily of Guy Fwakes.
The Wachowski brothers just have this inherent ability, talent i would say, to make a movie so impresisonable, poignant and mind boggling (especially the wordplays) that it stays with you for the next few days. And for the next few days, you recall and recollect phrases from the movie, such as 'vi veri veniversum visus vici' which is latin. All i remember was that Evey was cleaning a mirror with these very same words engraved on the top of it. Don't bother asking me what it means. ^_^ I'm not even sure if i'd gotten the phrase right.
By a not so pure coincidence, as like V said , "there are no coincidences, only the illusion of coincidence", (now, we're getting too sucked up in this whole comic-movie fiasco), i caught the last two installments of the matrix triology for the nth time over the weekend as well. And, frankly, the first matrix installment is still my all-time favourite. The pseudo-intellectual storylines, well-written and developed background for the story, and great casting, not to mention the one of a kind, those signature fight scenes that make the whole movie much too enjoyable (for my own good).
I have no idea why i brought up the fact that i watched the matrix again during the weekend.
Perhaps i was just trying to bring up the point that it's these futuristic, sci-fi-ish, intellectual conversations that do one heck of a wordplay, and great actors that make a movie enjoyable, and stays pretty fresh in the mind even after you leave the cinema. Did a little (okay, not that little) googling on the movie, and yep, brought me to a few websites that expounded (some simply, others more cheem) on the graphic novel, the movie, the character V, evey, and other characters that were likened to V such as monte cristo (also featured in the movie) and Rorschach.
Personally, I'm not such a fan of the whole dystopian-terrorism-fascist based graphic novel. And i'm definitely not going to do any sort of in-depth analysis on the movie, dissecting every scene, movie, conversation and actions per se. Although, i would recommend this website to anyone who is just about as interested in the character V as I am. Just click on the hyperlink.
I love the whole word play going on in the novel or movie.
V for Victory, which was by the way, the slogan adopted during world war 2 against the nazis.
V for Vendetta, vendetta, revenge, blood-debt (literally).
V for Valerie. possibly the key influence behind V's vicious intent on getting back at the state and her government.
V for eVey.
V as the roman numeral for 5.
sarah at 4:05 pm