Review of V for Vendetta (2006) by Pisforpropaganda — 21 Mar 2006

Visually seductive, this movie is about sending you the "other" message. Very 70's ish to me. Funny how Rolling Stone, Portland, and San Francisco newspapers all rate this so high...this is a movie for WTO rioters.

The movie is not bad, but it lacks examination of why those in power fear those they enslave. And why those who live and let live fail to maintain organized and safe societies. Why do people want tyrants, they obviously provide something and then degrade into something else.

Hippies had their day and it didn't work. Life is a balance like the left and right hemispheres of the brain. People need to stop fighting other people as much as they need to start discipling themselves.

This movie throws out a grand statement and then fails to get to the root of the truth...it blames others. Yawn. Still if you are smart enough to take a spoonful of what is said and displayed and realize this is just a graphic novel that requires large egos and bizarre material to keep you entertained then you can enjoy some of it.

To me this is kind of a weak Stanley Kubrick movie that tries to sell a bit of nonsense as truth.