(from my journal)
Saturday, March 18, 2006 B

"V is for Vendetta"
10:16pm

Just came back from seeing 'V for Vendetta'. I am still stunned. "This is not a reform, this is a revolution," the speaker intoned over the credits. I think it came from Malcolm X. This movie has touched me on so many levels, I don't think I can begin to describe them all.

It is an England, such as what the fundies would like to return America to. It's too easy to say it couldn't happen. It has, so many times before through out history. Elie Wiesel can tell you of a relatively rather recent episode in Germany. 'V' is a 'terrorist'. At first I think he is insane. But as I watch, I see it's the country that has gone insane.

It's like the screenwriter is telling me, "This revolution is for YOU." So many little elements of symbols. The red roses, which we learn the secret of later in the movie, reminds me the 'night blooming flower' that I saw in my mind's eye. When I tried to capture it, it came out blue. But I'd originally seen it as red. The red went into his hair.

This Flower Blooms For You

'Valerie', I sobbed while her story unfolded. I, there with Julia, sobbed. In this England, I could have been Valerie. "This revolution is for YOU." The rain, the cleansing rain, "God is in the rain," the movie quoted. And then it thundered, sign from Set who thunders. "V" is a rather Set like character, "God against the Gods", bringing the chaos to end the stasis which had claimed their freedom, their dignity, their honor, while the lies went on and on.

"This revolution is for YOU." I seemed to hear. I walked out of there shaken.

How do I explain a movie like that? How do I explain? The horror of it, but then the hope at the end. There is always the hope, that after a cycle of no freedom, of repression, the red bursts into the scene. But why does the red too often mean blood? I wish it didn't have to be like that. Could it not be like that? So many questions. The answers? Never simple. If they are simple, they are probably lies.

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