V for Vendetta ...

Chronicling...

Year 2009, and what's left of it, is almost to its end. I never watched a single movie let alone go near a theatre. I’ve forgotten the ambiance and the atmosphere of the ‘cinema’ Olympics. It’s been a long time I last braved a movie. Nowadays, Hollywood churns out movies not like the ones in yesteryears and the movie industry of Hollywood had turned wooden somewhat... {at least to me that is}

A hundred like movies; all screened; all the same time; people queueing up to grab the best seats to the various cinema halls within a compressed time and auditorium. Kinda makes it a rush. But, having the wisdom of near-extended families who thrive on DVDs I was in for some real movie fiesta as I borrowed some DVDs some fortnights ago.

Amongst one of those I watched was " V for Vendetta." Now, here’s a movie I was totally unprepared for. On the hindsight, I didn't know how I could have missed this movie in the cinemas. Even the synopsis escaped my reading. I suppose it must have been my ‘blissed’ ignorance or never wanting to tread near cinemas and the crowd.

V for Vendetta – Hmmm! I was blown away by its prose and verbal genre. Many would stand to differ against my petite opinion but are they to be blamed? I think not. I do have a right to my opinion.

The problem is, gone are the days when I use to watch movies with loud boisterous action with swashbuckling sword fights and espionage car chases and try to figure out how a damn particular scene would have been filmed. Nowadays, that kinda genre has mellowed and has become saliently silent. So, why watch V?

V for Vendetta was the answer. It handed me that one moment in time when I really really glued myself to the volume and hear the characters prose out their lines. V's lines were beyond exceptional. I was mesmerised by the character played by Hugo Weaving. Tho’ dark and somewhat sombre, the movie is a reminder of the book ‘1984’ by George Orwell; The Big Brother.

What hit me most was the crisp script lines by V. Something unprepared for. English at its finest, prose, eloquent, smooth-spoken and mind catching.

I'm thinkin about getting the original DVD as a rare collection. And I DO KNOW MOST OF YOU WOULD STILL NOT AGREE WITH ME on that as well. :-)

To quell and quench my thirst, here are some lines delivered by the character V - the opener.


“Remember remember the fifth of November, the gunpowder treaty and treason.”

“Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm merely remarking upon the paradox
of asking a masked man who he is.”

“But on this most auspicious of nights permit me then, in lieu of the more commonplace sobriquet to suggest the character of this dramatis persona.”

And of course, the all famous V V V V lines By V.
{ a tongue-twister almost in one single breath }

“In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance, a vendetta held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose.”

Superb.