man, that V guy is a jerk
Feb. 22nd, 2006 04:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gmonkey42So I looked up V for Vendetta on Wikipedia and there's a summary of the entire series. I want to read it, it looks like the artwork is pretty cool. But check out this part:
When Gordon is murdered by a gangster in Creedy's employ, Evey attempts revenge but is arrested, detained, and tortured. In her cell, Evey finds the memoir of a former inmate, Valerie, an actress who was imprisoned for being a lesbian. Evey's interrogator gives her a choice of collaboration or death; inspired by Valerie's defiance, she refuses to give in, and is told she is free. To her shock, Evey learns that her imprisonment was a hoax constructed by V, to put her through a spiritual ordeal like the one that shaped him. He reveals that Valerie was another Larkhill prisoner, who died in the cell next to his; the memoir that Evey read is exactly the same one that V read. Evey's anger gives way to acceptance of her identity and freedom.
What an asshole. He couldn't just, like, tell her about his experience? He didn't give her enough credit to think she'd understand without actually being arrested and tortured and all that?
Also, after reading the summary, one thing struck me: V never takes off his mask. Therefore Hugo Weaving had to film the entire movie wearing a mask, which appears to lack eye-holes, in every single scene. That must've sucked.
When Gordon is murdered by a gangster in Creedy's employ, Evey attempts revenge but is arrested, detained, and tortured. In her cell, Evey finds the memoir of a former inmate, Valerie, an actress who was imprisoned for being a lesbian. Evey's interrogator gives her a choice of collaboration or death; inspired by Valerie's defiance, she refuses to give in, and is told she is free. To her shock, Evey learns that her imprisonment was a hoax constructed by V, to put her through a spiritual ordeal like the one that shaped him. He reveals that Valerie was another Larkhill prisoner, who died in the cell next to his; the memoir that Evey read is exactly the same one that V read. Evey's anger gives way to acceptance of her identity and freedom.
What an asshole. He couldn't just, like, tell her about his experience? He didn't give her enough credit to think she'd understand without actually being arrested and tortured and all that?
Also, after reading the summary, one thing struck me: V never takes off his mask. Therefore Hugo Weaving had to film the entire movie wearing a mask, which appears to lack eye-holes, in every single scene. That must've sucked.
