Vainglorious V

"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, and so it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
Now let's observe a minute of silence while you imagine my facial expression when 10 minutes into the film "V for Vendetta", our beloved V starts giving his wonderful V speech, and there weren't even any coherent chinese subtitles for me to comprehend whatever he's said.
I mean, you'll have to applaud the scriptwriters, the Wachowski Brothers who gave us Matrix Trilogy, for writing this type of speech, I imagine them sitting in front of the dictonary and tearing the Alphabet V segment for reference. When they sleep, it's not ZzZzzZ, it's VvvVvvV.
I admire Hugo Weaving aka Agent Smith now known as V, who can actually deliver such a long paragraph of speech and not be strangled by his own tongue.Also, he, the man behind the mask, actually acts like the mask is his face. He added expressions and emotions to the Guy Fawkes mask just by talking. His voice conveys everything V wanted. *drowns*
Oh and did I mention the original actor to act as V was not Weaving? The original guy dropped out after a week because he couldnt act behind a mask throughout the film and Weaving was called in last minute, and he was brilliant.

The film was the best Freedom Fighting film I've even seen. I especially love the part when Evey (Natalie Portman) was "imprisoned" and her sole reason and strength to survive and fight was a short autobiography by a lesbian prisoner called Valerie. The autobiography was writen on single sheets of toilet paper with tiny handwriting, telling the story of how Valerie, beautiful and brave about being a lesbian and was hence caught under the terrible government then. It ended with, "whoever you are, I love you" and it touched me.
Evey later realised it was V who captured her and imprisoned her and tortured her to "help her overcome her fears". She was, naturally, angry and felt cheated. She wanted to return the sheets of toilet paper containing the autobiography to V, who then told her it was real. The autobiography was given to him when he was a prisoner years ago and Valerie was just beside his cell. Hence he was called V, for Vengeance, Vendetta, Valerie. He represented their fight for freedon.

There were bits of love in the show too. A certain scene Evey kissed V on the lips on the mask when he wanted to go and meet his maker. He paused for a milisecond, said "I can't" and walked away. By the time he came back after the fight he was soaked in blood and here's the best bit:
Evey: I don't want you to die.
V: That is the most beautiful thing you could have given me.
Then he died. *saddened*

After watching the film the impact is still not that great. It's after watching and you sit back and think about whatever messages the film is trying to convey and you think about the scenes and you felt all shaken, touched, changed. It's a beautiful, brave, meaningful film. I guess only the Wachowski Brothers can make me feel like this all over again.