Excellent movie. Excellent. Excellent. Wow! The Wachowski Brothers are my heroes now.
The best blow-up movie I have ever seen, and the clearest and easiest case for a LightShed 10 on this website. I saw it Friday night and I shall remember March 17! You will not believe the gay content. Just brilliant.
In the movie, Hugo Weaving's character, V (it's better than Cher, all he needs is one letter), seeks revenge and to overthrow a totalitarian regime. Yay, right? He finds a friend, played by Natalie Portman. The movie gives us a loud wake up call with respect to the seeds, read hatred of certain minorities, being planted in various countries today, particularly in the US, and the ugly tree that may spring out of it. Basically, the totalitarian regime occurs in future England (at that point the US has already fallen to chaos), and the dictator there, played by John Hurt, instills fear in the population in order to control the country. The original story was published between 1982 and 1985, but the disastrous government portrayed in the movie seems eerily familiar, doesn't it? A government playing politics with certain groups in order to remain in control (in the movie, Muslims and Gays are targeted). And the message of the movie will hit you like a stampede. If you want to look for one to blame, just look in the mirror. You must see this movie in a large screen. Go to an IMAX if you can.
The soundtrack
And you needed to see the audience in the theater. I went to the big screen here in town (it wasn't on one of the IMAX screens for some reason), and there were tons of straighties. Just the crowd who needs to see this movie. Lots of them wearing St. Patrick's Day attire. John Dunleavy, whom I'll be calling Homophobe No. 1 for a while, must see this movie.
Really well done. I believe movies like V can help prevent this type of homophobia from happening. Excellent movie, outstanding gay content. The movie keeps telling us "Remember, remember the 5th of November." I'll remember March 17, the day this movie opened. Really, get out now. Go see the movie.
As I was saying, our gay content is powerful, and present throughout the movie. Now, I will talk about much of the gay content of the movie, but I'll be far from revealing the end, but if you like to be in a little bit of suspense for the movie, you may wish to stop reading now. Continue reading later.
In the beginning of the movie this British general turned TV host mentions that America has fallen into chaos because of godlessness, because it wasn't harsher on Muslims and homosexuals. That TV host is portrayed in the worst light possible, so the insult works for us, not against us. I thought that would be it, which would have warranted a LightShed score already. But the very likable character played by Stephen Fry turns out to be a closet case. He is also a British TV host, he has an entertainment show and at one point complains to Nathalie Portman that he is locked in the closet because of the government, but wished things were different. He turns out to be later targeted and black-bagged by the government in front of Natalie Portman, this was a very important and powerful scene. And it is not over, now comes the best part, the part I cried and all. It deserves a special paragraph. I get emotional even talking about it.
At one point, Natalie Portman is locked up and she starts to receive a biography written on toilet paper. The autobiography is being written by lesbian Valerie, played by Natasha Wightman. She tells us about knowing she was a lesbian since her early teenage years, falling in love again and again, and the traumatic coming out to her parents (this is where I cried first). Gays were being persecuted for being gay, and she and the love of her life were put in prison for that reason. They both died because of the persecution. I really cried here. Natalie Portman kisses the last piece of the autobiography, crying. Love her.
In terms of a good movie it had flaws, the good bits however have now made me a gay and lesbian rights groupie! This movie is not far from the truth and i say "fuck the straight people who hate us"
Posted by: katia | Aug 23, 2006 at 09:56 PM
Proceed at Your Own Risk (check Queer Beacon's blogroll) just sent me a link to an article indicating V bashing started strong already. It's on bitches. Bring it.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49340
Posted by: Queer Beacon | Mar 19, 2006 at 05:25 PM
William, you are right. I just included a link to the original story as well. Keep on reading.
Posted by: Queer Beacon | Mar 19, 2006 at 01:56 PM
Your link to the 'book' of V For Vendetta is actually to the novelisation of the film by Stephen Moore and not the original graphic novel by Alan Moore & Dave Lloyd.
(incase it wasn't intentional)
Posted by: William | Mar 19, 2006 at 11:29 AM