Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
From the rubble
Good movie, but terribly confused. It's too talky and political for an action flick, and some of the action -- especially the ridiculous knife-contrail sequence -- loses it credibility as a serious work. It fails as an adaptation by throwing out the original's intended meaning: Moore's criticisms of the limply-gesturing politics can't be denied. And its relentless specificity makes it less generally applicable as a political statement.
To my mind, it's most interesting as the successor to the Matrix, or at least the unsatisfactory hints at Baudrillard therein (e.g., Neo's hollowed-out copy of Simulacra and Simulation). Sutler appears only as an image on a screen even to his closest subordinates; V is even worse, a masked man with no memory, apparently trained as killer -- and avenger -- by re-runs of Robert Donat in The Count of Monte Cristo. One hollow image conquering another hollow image, torturing Evey in a false interrogation (a prison no less real for its falseness), etc. Fascinating stuff.
Definitely worth seeing.