"[...]Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel
Which smoked with bloody execution,
Like valour's minion
Carved out his passage till he faced the slave,
Which ne'er shook hands nor bade farewell to him
Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops,
And fixed his head upon our battlements. - from Macbeth
3 comments:
I didnt find the dialouges cheesy at all. I think they were perfect. The protagonist is no ordinary Hollywood Hero. He is a Greek, with a mortal flaw moving towards his tragic ending every passing moment. Infact I loved the dilouge about ideas being bullet proof.
Think about it, we all owe our lives to the ideals we believe in, and we die for them. Even a non-accidental death adheres to them. Ideas dont die!
When I was walking out of the theatre I had goose bumps on my neck and arms and I had already decided to watch it again, and own it on a DVD.
Well, you have to realize that the movie is Anarchist vs. A Fascist govt. At the end the anarcy prevails. The mask was a symbol, hence we never see the face of Hugo W. V is very metaphoric; at sometimes it reminded me of neitzsche too. He is a romantic greek hero who is a master of fighting skills, a genius, a perfect planner, a visionary - basically an uberman.
A point to be noted however is that he was not the last domino; Evey was. Evey is a common man; a Burgeois, and so is every Brit who marches wearing that mask on that night. So V is everyone. V is an idea. Humans tend to fall in love with ideas. V fell in love with Evey, because he saw hope in the masses, which traditionally are just a herd of sheep.
Post a Comment