Yesterday, I decided to treat myself to a movie and went to the local multiplex where I saw V for Vendetta starring Natalie Portman. I have been wanting to see it for a while, which I mentioned before. Natalie recently impressed me with her skills as a rapper, so I decided to forgive her for the Amidala thing.

Vendetta is great, in a big-budget-studio-flick kind of way. Natalie plays Evey Hammond, the damsel in distress, saved by a masked man named "V" who has a lot to say and even more things to blow up. The film calls for a revolution: "Governments should be afraid of their people." In reaction to the State of Fear that rules over the population. Vendetta has quite a bit of "queer" content, which was surprising. Not "queer" like cowboys getting it on in a tent, or trannies on a cross-country trip, but "queer" as in: a future in which being gay is a crime, amongst many other things that could land you in a concentration camp. The philosophical ideas in this film are grand and confusing, but it nonetheless remains interesting and entertaining. Personally, I like the "Phantom of the Opera"/"Beauty and the Beast" theme and here it is in full Camp effect. Yeah, there are a few holes in the plot and the extended lesbian flashback sequence was sort of naive, but the intentions of the Wachowski Brothers (who wrote the script) are good, so it's okay. Alan Moore, who wrote the source material comic book, took his name off the film, which means little, since he takes his name off of every movie that is based on his comics.