Awesome movie — one of two I saw over break (the other one was 16 Blocks, another good movie). I didn’t get that much sense of the “near future” that it tries to portray (although it does contain references to ‘America’s War’ and the Avian Flu), but everything else is really well done. Throughout various points in the movie, I kept feeling like it was trying to tell me something about where our society is heading and what the consequences were if we proceeded in the wrong direction. Of course it was somewhat obvious from the trailer and the tagline: “An uncompromising vision of the future”, but there were lots of references to things we have seen/currently see in our everyday lives. It definitely is a much more exaggerated environment — it takes place in a post-nuclear-war Britain, when a repressive government has taken power. I got a sense that it wasn’t trying to draw an analogy with any kind of government in the world today, but it definitely makes you think about some common stereotypes we have of history (who are the protagonists/antagonists?).
There are many movies out there that depict citizens struggling under a Nazi-like government, but this one starts you off in a state of complacency in the beginning — sure, everything is fake, but life isn’t hard… as the movie continues, you start to question the roles of characters and who is in the right/wrong. That itself makes it a powerful movie — in the end you realize the ideal that V stands for, and how a simple movie can change your way of thinking. Anyways, go see it. If nothing else, it was produced by the creators of the Matrix.
