Yeeeeeee-ouch!
That, the noise that your intrepid reporter in the field made while opening his parcel, as he gave himself a paper cut. Under His Fingernail!
Agh, ooh %&@£! Oh you %&$%@#! $%#@ $%#@ity %$&#! Ooh, that smarts!
It was pretty much my own fault. Too much of a rush to get this open and in the DVD player. Was it worth it? Hell yes! I really love this film. It's built around a conspiracy and a question, and while you may spot the conspiracy quite early on, it's still wonderful to watch it all fall into place, like a domino rally. The question is one of the things that I find most interesting. Is a man who kills and bombs in retaliation against a government a terrorist, if the government he seeks to overthrow is itself corrupt and fascist and guilty of much worse sins?
My favourite quote was, is, and ever shall be: "No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I will no longer be standing, because if I am you will all be dead before you've reloaded."
But this film and a few others make me sad. It's yet another film that I initially saw knowing absolutely nothing about the source material, and I really enjoyed it. I felt the same way after watching Serenity (I watched Firefly afterwards). Makes me realise there must be hundreds and thousands of good stories out there in various formats that I haven't enjoyed and don't have time to go and find out about. Ach well. That's what reincarnation's for.
One word of warning: Buy the special edition, as the special features
Score: A++ for the film C+ for the special features.
OQ: I'll leave you with another cracking bit of dialogue from the film
Evey
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. '
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