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V For Vendetta
IMDB
My Rate: 4/5

"I think all the boundaries of music have been discovered, from classical music to complete noise music. All you need to do is making genuine hybrids. That's all about progressive music, a band like King Crimson is influenced by classical avant-garde music as by Beatles...", Steven Wilson said in an interview.

V For Vendetta is a hybrid. It's influenced by a classic story like Jesus sacrificing for the sins of human , or a hero saving people like Zorro, as by a modern story like Fincher's Fight Club. It's also highly influenced by 1984. But it's not all. There are also some over context points in the film:

- John Hurt, the chancellor in this film, plays the extreme opposite role he did in 1984. The chancellor seems the B.B. of 1984, now is played by the worker who was tortured to death to recover his faith to B.B. and the revolution!

- Hugo Weaving, the V himself, is the one who changes human fate, by sacrificing himself. He plays the extreme opposite role he did in The Matrix series as Agent Smith, the vicious character.

- Natalie Portman, Evey, they shave her head as a torture, and the result is an activist who is damn alike Sinead O'Connor! She's an Irish activist, you know.

- In Fight Club, Tyler Durden blowed up the sky scrappers, a totem of modernity, in this film V blows up the parliament and every "old" symbols.

- More to add?

- Yes there's more. the challenges of good ol' US of A are the future's crises. They are: Homosexualism, Islam, and Terrorism!

- I can't recall any black or coloured or eastern character in this movie, of course it may has a reason, the ruling government is racist, maybe they have done some racial genocide.