Ravenous... it convinced me to start eating people, and is the reason I still do today.

I second V for Vendetta, truly a film for our times - muchos kudos to the Wachowski Brothers for finally putting the real message of the Matrix over in a form that doesn't get lost in sci-fi action and iconography, that focusses on the issues of freedom of choice and diversity in a society of manipulation and repressive conformity.

I wept openly at Valerie's prison letter that Evie read in the detention cell, it was truly beautiful, convincingly and compassionately delivered by Natalie Portman. I roared with laughter at the Benny Hill-inspired bullet-chase scene in the spoof chat-show with the High Chancellor, and I cheered when the masses turned on their oppressors, the Fingermen, and marched on Parliament, all wearing their Guy Fawkes masks like V himself. Great performances too from Hugo Weaving as V and (as above) Natalie Portman, who I felt surpassed herself after her dismal and uninspired part in that Star Wars thing last year, with great support from a sympathetic and highly competent cast of British thespians, including a comedy turn from John Hurt and a convincing tragic part for Stephen Fry.

I didn't think it would be a patch on Alan Moore's graphic novels, but despite the plot and character changes, I thought it worked very well and was rather inspiring, as well as being an excellent warning against surrendering basic freedoms for an illusion of security. I'm not surprised it didn't fare too well in the US though, despite (or perhaps because of) the efforts to move the time frame of the plot from 1980's alternative history to post-Iraq 21st Century.





Edited by - The Great Moon Moth on 4/22/2006 8:31:27 PM