: V for Vendetta
My pick for best film of the year so far (not that that’s hard this year). I really liked the casting, performances, plot, everything. The film stirred the political winds due to its terrorist themes, but that’s not what it’s about at all. It’s actually a relatively mild film, a 1984ish fantasty about rebellion. The violence, though real, is symbolic, and innocent people are not hurt. Natalie Portman, who I wasn’t sure was right for a role involving physical action, turned out to be great and doesn’t actually do any stunts or action sequences — instead she’s merely a cog in the plot, and she brings humanity to the story. V, on the other than hand, is pure outrageous fantasy, brilliantly done, but always distant and incomprehensible like most superheroes. He’s not always nice — witness his brilliant-yet-warped trick on Natalie’s character — but that’s part of the purposeful ambiguity of the story. I liked that there’s not that much to the story or plot. It’s a simple, elegant little plot, not overly complicated like so many of today’s pieces.
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