"Remember, remember the fifth of November."

*contains spoilers!*

V for Vendetta (Vengeance) was AWESOME. The Wachowski Brothers have done it again!

Memorable quotes:

Willy Fingerman: You might not be the sorriest arse in London, but by tomorrow you'll definitely have the sorest!

[when the 'Fingermen' (sort of CIA) were about to rape Evey]

Evey Hammond: Who are you?

V: "Who?" "Who" is but the form following the function of "what", and what I am is a man in a mask.

Evey Hammond: Well I can see that!

V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.

Evey Hammond: [short pause] Oh... right.

V: This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof. [upon getting asked why he "won't die" when Mr. Creedy kept on shooting]


Aren't they superb? I LOVE this movie. Dare I say it is better than The Matrix Trilogy? YES. It is a story about truth, beauty, freedom, and above all, love. Haha, 'cept it isn't the Bohemian Revolution this time. "V for Vendetta is a swift and smugly entertaining portrait of revolution of the people."

May I highlight, there was this one scene at the end, when the London people were all consecutively taking off the masks on their faces.. Well, Jacq Chua claims she spotted Hugh Laurie (House) in the crowd, and I think I saw bloomin' Orlando Bloom!
So I went to imdb to confirm my suspicious- clicked on the "Orlando Bloom cameo (spoilers)." in the message board- and saw this WHOLE bloody long thread on people purportedly seeing all these... people. It's crazy.

A few eg:

"I saw: John Wilkes Booth, Moses, Joan of Arc, Ghandi, Optimus Prime, Megatron, Mr. T, Vin Diesel, Chuck Norris, Godzilla, Batman, Captain America and the Avengers, the Cigarette Smoking Man from the X-files, George Washington, the Orc army from Lord of the Rings, Morpheous, Neo, and Trinity, the entire crew from The Thing, a Queen Alien and her hive, Predator, bears on unicycles, clowns, dancing elephants, and Bill Gates all take off their masks at the end."

"I think I saw Papa Smurf too!"

"I found Wally!"

"I saw Michael Jackson there and i think his son too but he didnt take his mask off... "

BUT of course they're all lying LAH. Someone even said they saw BUSH. The impt. people to look out for, however, are the dead oppressors - Evey's parents and comedian friend, the lesbian couple, and the little girl.. it supposedly meant that as all these people stood for an idea, like V said "Ideas are bulletproof"; they represent things like innocence (the child), homosexuality (the women), free speech (Evey's friend Gordon) etc. So in that way, the human persons were killed, but the idea they stood for, was not. =)

It was NC16 for the violence/mature themes- BUT it's EDITED! (the uncut version is M18) They also cut out this whole scene (from the graphic novel) when she actually unmasked V... when V dies in Evey's arms, she takes his mask off once, sees her father's face but then says to herself, "No, V was not my father." So Evey puts his mask back on and takes it off again and sees Gordon's face. Evey does the taking off and putting back on about 4 times untill she sees her own face, giving her the realization of what she has to do.

Oh my god, I can't stand it. I love this film. I thought it would be some political mumb-jumbo but hell, it's frickin entertaining. Before the movie, I was so scared that Aza would be so sian by it but whatdoyouknow, she cried 4 times in the movie! I'm gonna buy the DVD. Vicky said her friend's sis watched it three times in the cinema. Don't miss it! AIYOH I can't believe Chua said it was boring; but then again she said Walk the Line was bad.. then changed her mind mysteriously afterwards (after reading the reviews??) Don't believe her! Watch it!

- Lizzie

"Don't take life so seriously, nobody makes it out alive anyways!"