12:56 am

V for Vendetta


Just came back from viewing V for Vendetta.

I am impressed.
Goddamned impressed.
So impressed I may go see it again next week when time prevails.

The movie may have been done from a comic or graphic novel, but it is a powerful, powerful film. Natalie Portman was good as the tortured daughter who watched her family die. Hugo Weaving is incredible as the bitter, vengence-seeking V who ultimately learns what it's like to be human again : to feel, to love, to want and desire.


Lest you think this is like other comics transformed into a money-making spiel (think Xmen, gorgeous, a heady adventure from real life, but utterly unbelievable) I hasten to add that the film is dark, heady and very real. Almost like a satire.

It drew me in, it made me share the lives of the characters, felt their anguish, their pain, their passion for life. I haven't quite felt a movie touch me like this for a long long time.


Most excellent!


PS
Natalie Portman was really quite good. However did she end up in the horror that was Star Wars?

4 comments:

Greg said...

I have been wanting to go see this myself. When I can finally get up and about I am going to go see it. I am glad to hear you liked it and it was worth seeing a second time.

Peace

Fiona Kathleen Hogan said...

uh oh.
Finally get up and about?
heh. Your legion of fans want to see those legs of yours ;P

Anonymous said...

it was a decent movie, not great. star wars was way better.

Fiona Kathleen Hogan said...

erm.
superstar?
If you thought Star Wars was good then we most *definitely* have a difference in opinions.