Sunday, April 16, 2006

V for Vendetta
Warning this is just my cynical opinion and little facts actually reside within this post, but hey what else is new.
I went and seen V for Vendetta the other day and I absolutely loved it. Ok so there was some romance in it that is totally against my beliefs but it wasn’t shoved down your throat like normally happens and they had the potential to make it really corny but seemed to take the high road. The best part was the political theme that the film centred around, and better yet was the fact that he never removes his mask for her even when she asks him.
I heard a review from a critic that absolutely hated the film, which normally makes me laugh or I just ignore. But this particular review was just too pathetic to ignore, they stated that the political themes within the film were so relevant to today’s situations that the film needed to be viewed by everyone. Although due to the way in which the film was portrayed it will never reach the wide audience that it should have therefore making less of a social impact than it should have. I haven’t read the novel but from what I heard the director toned down parts of to make it, and in order to reach a wider audience, and I don’t know how financially successful it was although I’ve seen it on the front page of a major magazine so I gathered that it was reasonably successful.

Now while I think its great that they believe that the film should be viewed by a wide audience I think its unrealistic for that to be achieved while actually having everyone grasp the depth of the film. The director already changed parts and to achieve what the critic is asking I think to many changes would have had to be made, therefore losing the absolute impact that it now has. Ok look at society these days, while there is an increased awareness amongst people about the larger things in life either not everyone is really ready for a full assault, or the contrast of the fact that the others are subjected to the overexposure to violence that they face everyday has inturn desensitised them. So I may sound like I’m putting the average person down but hey that’s just what my experiences have taught me, the average person does not really live outside their box, they either believe every damn thing fed to them or they just don’t give a damn if it doesn’t directly affect them. Although I must admit that their boxes are obviously stretching they aren’t really making any significant achievements, and its not until people start living outside these boxes that the real statement in this film will be appreciated and understood for what it is by a much wider audience.
I know I must be sounding like a broken record by now, but I still believe that directors are creating for profit rather than art. And even though this film was a blockbuster creation, the fact that it stemmed from an art and dared to question only emphasises the rarity of art in the film industry that is not fully appreciated by this desensitised society.

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