i worry that love is violence
citizen illegal, josé olivarez / angel of small death & the codeine scene, hozier / black iris, leah raeder/ r.d. laing / the tale of despereaux, kate dicamillo / litany in which certain things are crossed out, richard siken / blue lily, lily blue, maggie stiefvater / john my beloved, sufjan stevens / litany in which certain things are crossed out, richard siken / mockingjay, suzanne collins
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Hugo Weaving in V for Vendetta (James McTeigue, 2005)
Cast: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Rupert Graves, Roger Allam, Ben Miles, Sinéad Cusack. Screenplay: Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, based on a graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Cinematography: Adrian Biddle. Production design: Owen Paterson. Film editing: Martin Walsh. Music: Dario Marianelli.
I'm not sure how Guy Fawkes became a hero and his plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament an admirable political act, but V for Vendetta certainly seems to endorse both of them. (The latter seems especially odd in a movie made only four years after the 9/11 attacks.) The film bears the stamp of many adaptations from graphic novel/comic book sources: an assumption that the viewer will accept the movie's milieu on its own terms, without trying to haul in real-world plausibility. It's easier to do that if you have a cast capable of playing almost anything from Shakespeare to soap opera. So the presence of actors like Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry, John Hurt, Tim Piggott-Smith, Rupert Graves, and Sinéad Cusack goes a long way to keeping V for Vendetta alive. I particularly liked Roger Allam as a rabble-rousing news commentator in the mold of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. I was less impressed with Natalie Portman, whose British accent came and went fitfully and who generally seemed at sea. It may be that the script by Lilly and Lana Wachowski called for her character, Evey, to be off-balance through most of the film, but I failed to connect with her performance, which since she is meant to be the audience's point-of-view character is something of a fatal flaw.
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