Movie Review Monday

I saw a cool one this past Thursday night... V for Vendetta. Definitely worth seeing. Not so much for the way V brutally lays the smack down on the British government (although that was WAYYY cool), but to watch the transformation of Evie's character, played brilliantly by Natalie Portman. She undergoes a character morph through the course of the movie akin to that of Edward Norton's unnamed character in the movie "Fight Club"; sort of a liberation from fear.

There is a bit of a liberalistic message woven into the film that is not so subtle. The tyrannical British government, with it's curfews, quarantines, corruption; with it's laws against free religion, speech, and privacy, is shown as a product of what would happen if the "religious right" were to have their way and completely take over. Homosexuals and Muslims are dubbed as society's "undesireables" and are jailed. They are used for testing chemical agents and otherwise treated as the scum of the earth. The government has completely taken over everything. Granted most of this storytelling is meant to make you hate the evil empire government so you will shake your fist at the screen and go "YEAH" when V comes in and literally puts everyone in their place (which I did), you could tell that an agenda was being pushed. Still, watching V infiltrate the system was cool. Kind of like The Punisher, but cooler.

Cool flick! I was entertained.