V for Vendetta completely eclipsed anything else that may have ever been important. My entire life is now bound to that movie, to that idea, to that concept--to the memory of V.
No movie I have ever seen even comes close to measuring up to V. It filled me with hope--something I avoid feeling--for humanity, that maybe we'll survive. Maybe the impending doom of totalitarianism will not crush our spirits, wink out our flames, one by one by one by one.
It was set in England but speaks so clearly of what could happen to America in the very near future. There were scenes that sent chills down my spine for the very present truth shown in them.
And Hugo Weaving is such an amazing actor that I could sense his facial expressions even though all you see of him is a mask.
I will go back to see it again and and again and again and again until I run out of money, and then then when it is out I will need it so fiercely, so wholly, that I would not be complete without it.
I would sell my soul for this film.
Phantom restored my faith in filmmaking. V restored my faith.
