While watching this movie I kept feeling like it was missing something. I wondered why we never got to know any details about this dystopian country or about this tyrannical government we were seeing. We knew the surface-level gist of it, but we knew nothing indistinguishable about them. Same thing for V; we knew nothing about him. Who was he? What was his mindset? What was his exact history? What was his true driving force? We never get to know any of this. And that bothered me. It still kind of does, but after some reflection I did realise that this whole "not-knowing" thing was the exact point of the movie.
This movie is not about one particular kind of evil government or one particular type of censored country or even about any particular man. V was merely an idea and this country and its government were a mere proxy for any country or government the watchers want to apply it to in real life. The one and only theme of the movie is anarchy and revolution, and so nothing could overshadow that: V is the idea of revolution, the country is those that need to ensure revolution and the government are those that need to be revolutionized. No more, no less.
Which is all a very cool and interesting concept but made the viewing experience itself a little bit dull and lifeless for me. After all, it is hard to connect with a world or with characters who aren't meant to BE anything but a mere representation of an idea.
This movie is not about one particular kind of evil government or one particular type of censored country or even about any particular man. V was merely an idea and this country and its government were a mere proxy for any country or government the watchers want to apply it to in real life. The one and only theme of the movie is anarchy and revolution, and so nothing could overshadow that: V is the idea of revolution, the country is those that need to ensure revolution and the government are those that need to be revolutionized. No more, no less.
Which is all a very cool and interesting concept but made the viewing experience itself a little bit dull and lifeless for me. After all, it is hard to connect with a world or with characters who aren't meant to BE anything but a mere representation of an idea.