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Last Updated: May 30th, 2008 - 11:49:13 |
Whatever you think of the Wachowski Brothers, credit them with not backing away from big issues and ideas in their movies. In “V for Vendetta,” the first major film from the brothers since “The Matrix,” a masked avenging hero is determined to rouse the public to stand up against a British government that has morphed into a military dictatorship.
Headed by a once charismatic and religion-rooted leader, Adam Sutler, who addresses his subjects like Big Brother on a big screen, the government spies on its citizens, arrests and tortures dissidents, and controls the mass media. Most intriguingly, this engrossing film speculates about the extent to which government uses fear, the threat of terrorism—and even commits acts of terror against its own people—to keep the populace cowering and obedient.
Even though we don’t see his face throughout the film, actor Hugo Weaving uses body language and a suave voice to keep us entranced with his character, who makes us question what is a terrorist versus a revolutionary. Natalie Portman comes up strong in the role of Evey, a woman who V saves from an attack and learns to love, even as he plans assassinations and bombings.
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