I’ve slowly but steadily been increasing my movie watching lately, and although I’ve seen quite a few these last days, I do not have the energy to write anything about any of them. That is, with the exception of V for Vendetta, which I saw yesterday. I had been looking forward to this for quite some time, and the wait was worth it… I guess. Though it really had too much of a Hollywoodesque flavor and production for me, I still couldn’t help but to let a smile grow across my face as I was watching it. Most of the credit for that should go to the main character appropriately named V, I took an instant liking to him, and the way he was portrayed in the movie.

For those of you who might now know it, V for Vendetta takes place in a futuristic Great Britan, now a fascist state. Our masked crusader, if you want to call him that, holds a grudge against certain members of the government, after being subjected to biological experiments earlier in his life. He has assumed the identity known as V, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask (the closest you’d come to a terrorist during the 17th century), and executes terrorist attacks against the state. By doing so, he is slowly regaining the people’s will to live a proper life and makes them realise they can’t accept this totalitarian regime any longer.

Here’s a small clip that I extracted from the first few minutes of the movie when we are first introduced to V. In conclusion, a lovely enjoyment despite its Hollywood faults.

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