This movie rocks.

I don’t know if it’s because of (a) my love for Natalie Portman, (b) my love for mass transit systems, or (c) the witty script in this film, but I highly enjoyed this movie.

For once it’s a movie that I had high expections, and came out of the movie feeling satisfied.

Here’s a brief synopsis from IMDB:

The futuristic tale unfolds in a Great Britain that’s a fascist state. A freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally.

I have never encountered the graphic novels which inspired the movie, however, the plot is very similar to the classic novel, 1984, where a totaliarian society exists based on fear, oppression, propaganda.

What is great about this movie (aside from points A, B, and C) is that it reminds is to question our logic, question the things we hear in the media, question for government accountability (I sound like Stephen Harper) because seriously, the events that occurred in V for Vendetta, and even in 1984, is not far from reality and can happen.

On an unrelated topic, this movie, according to Jason, was postponed from release due to the attacks in the London Underground back last July.

Also, what I find funny, it was intended to be a futuristic film, however, there were nothing radical in terms of technology depicted in the film. I recall the reference “[something occurred] back in 2015.”

V for Vendetta- [imdb.com]