Self-Realization
Apr. 15th, 2007 02:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
talkingsoupCheck out the icon I made. I love V for Vendetta and I love Pink Floyd, and the two go together quite nicely.
Also made
though I'm not sure which one I like better.
So! I came to a series of realizations today and last night. The big, life-changing type that are worth calling my brother at 5 AM to tell him about, since he was the only one I could really go to then. It's been weird, but talking about it made me feel a lot better (I finally got to sleep). Epiphanies like this are good, despite their also being terrible and strange. And I still don't know entirely what I'm going to do. Either way, it means change.
Saw V for Vendetta with Pat on Friday. Excellent movie.
Holy crap, England has become a theocratic dictatorship and the US has fallen into UTTER RUIN!!! Woot!
This is an amazing movie. I liked it a lot more than I thought I was going to, I have to admit. Pretty much, the movie is about a dystopian future in England, where the country is run by an oppressive, theocratic dictator and pretty much everything's fucked up. Kind of like a mix of Children of Men and 1984. Evey is your average girl until, stepping out one night past curfew, she's attacked by police and rescued by a man wearing a black cape and strange mask who introduces himself as V. After that, she gets sucked into his plot to overthrow the government, both for his own vendetta (XOMG the title!) and to give the country back to its people.
Okay, let me just say right now, characters? Casting? Perfect. I really like Natalie Portman, and she was excellent as Evey. Evey herself was so incredibly realistic as a person oppressed by this government--scared, but angry. She knows that something is wrong, she just doesn't know what to do about it, and can't. As for V, holy crap. They could not have picked a better person to be his voice--the guy who was Agent Smith and Elrond. That voice just...I dunno, it was absolutely perfect. And V himself was such a character another one of those like Timothy Treadwell, Sally Bowles and the others. When he first meets Evey he spouts off this monologue that consists almost entirely of V words. A-fucking-mazing. Just because of him, this movie becomes so incredibly quotable.
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Obviously this movie comes as a statement for our times, but it doesn't smack you in the face with it, mostly because there's a lot else going on in the movie. Plus it's just so fun, so despite its themes of justice, freedom, oppression and whatnot, it doesn't come off as preachy or pretentious. I think it's because V himself is so incredibly crazy and zany and amazing. A character like I said.
The way they connect everything is so well done too, past to present. V's past and how it ties to his present and future, and how it connects to Evey. The Chancellor's past and how it connects to V. The people and how they connect to the future. At one point one of the characters comments on how he had a feeling that he was able to see everything that had been and everything that was going to happen, and that's the sense the movie gives you. It's truly amazing.
And the camera work was incredible. Some of the scenes were just so incredibly well done, but that's to be expected from the guys who did the Matrix. You could definitely see their touch. There's also a really good job of using color and lighting to give presence to people or events.
Overall, an absolutely wonderful movie that I'm totally going to buy eventually.
Score: 9 out of 10
Today feels like Sunday and I don't really know why. It turns out I have a major presentation this Monday that I thought was going to be due way at the end of the semester, but oh well. Pretty much all I have to do is put together a powerpoint and find a little bit more information. But I also have a fanfic chapter to write between now and the end of Sunday. I'm a few pages in--I'm gonna try to finish it tonight.
Oh, we officially have a Garden. 27-38. Kitchen. Spiral staircase. Living room. View of the lake. Next year is going to be so fucking much fun.
Also made
though I'm not sure which one I like better.
So! I came to a series of realizations today and last night. The big, life-changing type that are worth calling my brother at 5 AM to tell him about, since he was the only one I could really go to then. It's been weird, but talking about it made me feel a lot better (I finally got to sleep). Epiphanies like this are good, despite their also being terrible and strange. And I still don't know entirely what I'm going to do. Either way, it means change.
Saw V for Vendetta with Pat on Friday. Excellent movie.
Holy crap, England has become a theocratic dictatorship and the US has fallen into UTTER RUIN!!! Woot!
This is an amazing movie. I liked it a lot more than I thought I was going to, I have to admit. Pretty much, the movie is about a dystopian future in England, where the country is run by an oppressive, theocratic dictator and pretty much everything's fucked up. Kind of like a mix of Children of Men and 1984. Evey is your average girl until, stepping out one night past curfew, she's attacked by police and rescued by a man wearing a black cape and strange mask who introduces himself as V. After that, she gets sucked into his plot to overthrow the government, both for his own vendetta (XOMG the title!) and to give the country back to its people.
Okay, let me just say right now, characters? Casting? Perfect. I really like Natalie Portman, and she was excellent as Evey. Evey herself was so incredibly realistic as a person oppressed by this government--scared, but angry. She knows that something is wrong, she just doesn't know what to do about it, and can't. As for V, holy crap. They could not have picked a better person to be his voice--the guy who was Agent Smith and Elrond. That voice just...I dunno, it was absolutely perfect. And V himself was such a character another one of those like Timothy Treadwell, Sally Bowles and the others. When he first meets Evey he spouts off this monologue that consists almost entirely of V words. A-fucking-mazing. Just because of him, this movie becomes so incredibly quotable.
People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Obviously this movie comes as a statement for our times, but it doesn't smack you in the face with it, mostly because there's a lot else going on in the movie. Plus it's just so fun, so despite its themes of justice, freedom, oppression and whatnot, it doesn't come off as preachy or pretentious. I think it's because V himself is so incredibly crazy and zany and amazing. A character like I said.
The way they connect everything is so well done too, past to present. V's past and how it ties to his present and future, and how it connects to Evey. The Chancellor's past and how it connects to V. The people and how they connect to the future. At one point one of the characters comments on how he had a feeling that he was able to see everything that had been and everything that was going to happen, and that's the sense the movie gives you. It's truly amazing.
And the camera work was incredible. Some of the scenes were just so incredibly well done, but that's to be expected from the guys who did the Matrix. You could definitely see their touch. There's also a really good job of using color and lighting to give presence to people or events.
Overall, an absolutely wonderful movie that I'm totally going to buy eventually.
Score: 9 out of 10
Today feels like Sunday and I don't really know why. It turns out I have a major presentation this Monday that I thought was going to be due way at the end of the semester, but oh well. Pretty much all I have to do is put together a powerpoint and find a little bit more information. But I also have a fanfic chapter to write between now and the end of Sunday. I'm a few pages in--I'm gonna try to finish it tonight.
Oh, we officially have a Garden. 27-38. Kitchen. Spiral staircase. Living room. View of the lake. Next year is going to be so fucking much fun.
