3/17/2006

in

V for Vendetta ensures we'll remember, remember, the Fifth of November.

David Pepose

The film adaptation of "V" for Vendetta, Alan Moore's dystopian graphic novel chronicling the year-long exploits of the arch-terrorist-revolutionary V, opened in theatres today. While the film was disowned by writer Moore, who has had similar problems with adaptations of his other works ("From Hell," and "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"), the Wachowski Brothers (of "The Matrix" fame) have apparently redeemed themselves after their last two video game-esque box office flops. The movie opens in a totalitarian London that is shaken to its very core by V (Hugo Weaving, "The Matrix"), a genetically-modified psychotic genius revolutionary, whose leering Guy Fawkes mask is quickly loosening the government's iron grip on the populace. After kidnapping Evey (Natalie Portman, "Closer"), he spends one year converting her to his cause, while simultaneously gearing up for a mass strike on the Powers That Be, stating that "people should not be afraid of their governments-governments should be afraid of their people."