V for Vendetta

I was slightly rattled by 'V for Vendetta' -- a lovely love story, really, and a complicated morality tale ...

Perhaps it is the love story within the morality tale that packs the wallop -- less so the compensatory violence ...

The masked crusader ('V') seems at once the Romantic highwayman (yes, he steals what he requires) and the messianic scourge of the post-apocalyptic Britain lightly covering the references to post-9/11 America ... As ode to revolutionary violence, the film hides its actual (true) coordinates, which remain unnamed (though mentioned, poetically) -- viz., paratactical, metaphysical 'fire' ...

The film closes with 'structure' taking to the streets (to witness the demolition of Parliament), while the credits roll against the Stones' 'Street Fighting Man' ...

The cruel 'intermezzo' is the harrowing of Hell ... Or, when Natalie Portman is locked away in a cell and periodically interrogated by mostly-unseen, 'dark' inquisitors ...

Along the way of the saga, the horror of the 'state of emergency' imposed unfolds -- retrospectively … As always, this ‘cooked past’ is a faked history in service to a repressive ‘present’ ...

GK (03/24/06)

MIRROR-WRITING - "Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici" ("By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe") --Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (c.1590) ...

ACCESSORIES BEFORE/AFTER THE FACT
Negri - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/philosophy_aesthetics.html#negri
Bush/Cheney - http://www.geocities.com/ateliermp/no_war2.html
V for Vendetta - http://vforvendetta.warnerbros.com/