V for Vendetta...

[Half-Light]

The other day I rented the movie V for Vendetta and I have to say it is now my all-time favorite movie...I recommend anyone who hasn't seen it to either rent it or even buy it and I promise it won't disappoint you...I love this movie...the main character is a man named V who is out to get his revenge on parlament for what they did to him many years ago...He wears a Guy Foxx mask...and the other major character is a girl named Evey (Natalie Portman) who joins V in his plans to blow up the parlament building...
The movie tackles issues of government and how the government turns on its people and how the people let this happen...it also deals with the discrimination of homosexuals, who in the movie are chosen for experimentationand eventually killed...so if you havn't seen this movie, you should...and if you have seen it, I would like to hear your reaction to the movie and if any of you love it as much as I do....

Half-Light (Alex)

[step49x]

I haven't seen it, yet, but I know there are a ton of people at my college who saw it and really liked it.

My roommate even had a movie poster from it.

[three_wish35]

V Vendetta is my all time favorite movie as well. It's had a lasting impact on me since I first watched it. The plot is so thrilling. But more than that, it is based on history a lot more that you may realize.
"V" wears a Guy Fawkes mask, and is infamous for his attempt to blow up the British Parliament in the 17th century, if I am not mistaken. But the story is also based on the ideas of totalitarianism, censorship, and above all facism. These themes can be basically summed up by one man-- Adolf Hitler. Whether or not the movie was partly based on this notorious character, it did remind me of him and his history. If you didn't know, Hitler not only hated Jews, but "imperfect" humans as well (homosexuals, being one of them). Throughout the history of literature and the media, different plays on Hitler and the thematic elements he brings along have been made. V Vendetta is no exception. I love the movie for its wit. I'm glad you enjoyed it too.
Enough of that. (I can't really quote any sources, by the way. You may ask my old sophomore History teacher.)
In addition, the directors of the movie (they're brothers, I believe), were also the directors of The Matrix trilogy, a series that was based on a philosophical idea (Plato's theory of ideal forms and his Parable of The Cave). I mentioned this in case anyone was interested. I am such a dork.
The End.

[suburbs_of_sodom]

Haha, no worries, Plato's cave metaphor in The Republic has to be one of my all time favorite metaphors...mostly because I can refer to it and actually sound intelligent :icon_bigg. But it's interesting because, if I'm not mistaken, it was originally Socrates' parable, but his name rarely comes up in conjunction with it.

Ok, we need to start a nerd club.

I have yet to see V for Vandetta actually, though it's my best friend's all time favorite movie. She was quite upset when Guy Fawkes day fell on a Saturday this year, so she couldn't wear the mask into school :lol:.

[three_wish35]

I believe that Socrates is hardly ever mentioned because he never wrote down any of philosophical ideas, findings, et al. If I am correct, he parallelled the notion of submitting an idea onto paper with an orphan child, to convey his idea that even after he was long dead, his ideas could never be misinterpreted as long as they weren't given the chance to be misinterpreted (by being written). Jeez. That was a run-on sentence. I hope you guys get the idea though n_n'