Colombian girls watch V FOR VENDETTA for the first time

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  • Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
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    Hey everyone! Welcome to a very special reaction video where I’m joined by none other than my amazing editor Meli! 🎭 As I visit my hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia, we decided it was the perfect time for a movie night, and what better film to dive into than V for Vendetta?
    Join us as we explore this gripping tale of resistance and identity. This reaction is not only a first because it’s my first duo reaction on the channel, but also because it’s filmed right from my hometown with one of my closest collaborators!
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Комментарии • 298

  • @melissacalderonn
    @melissacalderonn 3 месяца назад +97

    Thank you Cristy for letting me be a part of this reaction! ❤️🎦

    • @bradleybradley4363
      @bradleybradley4363 3 месяца назад +8

      You did an awesome job, Meli!

    • @nordboya1656
      @nordboya1656 3 месяца назад +3

      Fantastic reaction from both of you, you should do more!

    • @hoon_sol
      @hoon_sol 3 месяца назад

      Anything you'd like to tell us about your past?
      *_«Melissa Margarita Calderón Ojeda (born August 12, 1984), also known as "La China", is a suspected Mexican drug trafficker, assassin and the ex leader of "Las Fuerzas Especiales de Los Dámaso", an enforcer group of the Sinaloa Cartel under the orders of Damaso Lopez Nuñez. Left after being replaced as leader. Starting Cartel California Sur With her then boyfriend El chino Lopez and unknown members of Southern California gangs. little else is known She is allegedly responsible for over 150 murders in Mexico and multiple outbreaks of violence in La Paz.»_*

    • @melissacalderonn
      @melissacalderonn 3 месяца назад +3

      @@hoon_sol 🤣that woman has certainly accomplished a lot. Not me though!

  • @steventhrasher3608
    @steventhrasher3608 3 месяца назад +36

    Something left out of the movie that I think adds good context to the story. Larkhill was basically a concentration camp for "undesirables" where they were medically experimented on. At Larkhill V was considered a model prisoner and docile. So much so that he was allowed pretty free reign to work in the garden there. He worked to bring Scarlett Carsons back from the brink of extinction (in honor of Valerie, the woman in room IV). He also used the fertilizer from the garden to fashion several bombs which lead to the explosions and fire that destroyed Larkhill and allowed his escape.

  • @adammcelroy8137
    @adammcelroy8137 3 месяца назад +53

    OK, you two have amazing chemistry. I had so much fun with this reaction! You need to do it again someday!

    • @CristyReacts
      @CristyReacts  3 месяца назад +9

      Thank you Adam!

    • @beebo5100
      @beebo5100 3 месяца назад +6

      2nd that

    • @cometgirl217
      @cometgirl217 3 месяца назад +8

      I couldn’t agree more!! It doesn’t hurt that you are both quite “camera-friendly” (aka pretty), but I actually *listened* to most of this reaction [it was next in my YT playlist and I’ve seen the movie enough times to recognize the scenes by audio alone] and thoroughly enjoyed it! I’ll “third” the above request that you do more reactions together in the future - just as long as the exquisite editing doesn’t suffer because y’all are busy having too much fun 😂

    • @philproffitt8363
      @philproffitt8363 3 месяца назад +2

      ​@@CristyReactsIf, by chance, you ladies have NOT seen Leon: The Proffessional...that would be right up ya alleys...super Portman debut and all 👌

  • @NoellaScott
    @NoellaScott 3 месяца назад +22

    "He lives through her"
    (awwww)
    "Yeahhh....but not really, he's not here"
    💀

  • @quieness
    @quieness 3 месяца назад +71

    My fav part of the whole movie is "You've got nothing, we have guns" speech and him replying with " NO, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I* no longer be standing, because if I am you'll all be dead before you've reloaded" OOOF

    • @blueroninstudios
      @blueroninstudios 3 месяца назад +9

      Batman: Hm.....Alfred where's my notepad, I gota write that one down.

  • @XinSonia
    @XinSonia 3 месяца назад +15

    "Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all that we really have. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch, we are free... An inch; it is small, and it is fragile, and it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away; we must never let them take it from us."

  • @MrSiriusAB
    @MrSiriusAB 3 месяца назад +29

    Remember, remember the 5th of November!

    • @orangewarm1
      @orangewarm1 3 месяца назад +2

      I'm not sure Americans really get that 🦁🦁🦁

    • @paulmartin2348
      @paulmartin2348 3 месяца назад

      @@orangewarm1 Americans as a whole are considerably more capable than the rest of the world. (there is a reason there is the US and then the rest of YOU) It's not even close.

  • @Paul_1971
    @Paul_1971 3 месяца назад +7

    One of my favourite movies of all time

  • @BlackStudies
    @BlackStudies 3 месяца назад

    12:25 "What if it's that guy from the beginning..?" It _is_ that guy from the beginning. "V" and "Guy Fawkes" were both played by the same actor -- Hugo Weaving.

  • @urborg74
    @urborg74 3 месяца назад +2

    In the end when Evie says "He was all of us" the possible takeaway is that in the real world V is not going to be one person. It takes a bunch of people, all contributing in different ways to drive a revolution.

  • @Drake844221
    @Drake844221 2 месяца назад

    The author, Alan Moore, is not the sentimental type in the stories he writes. Not that he is grim, he just doesn't shy away from the grim realities of what would happen within one of his stories, or the fact that there are people who will do horrible things because they feel that it is right. Don't get me wrong, I get where you are coming from, because it is different from the kinds of stories that we're used to getting. Still, you can't deny that it is powerful, and beautiful in a bittersweet way.

  • @ralflukas8469
    @ralflukas8469 3 месяца назад +1

    "V" was played by Hugo Weaving who also played Elrond in Lord of the Rings, Agent Smith in The Matrix and Tom Doss (Desmonds father) in Hacksaw Ridge.

  • @Heegaherger
    @Heegaherger 3 месяца назад

    The first Talkie Zorro movie (there was a silent film in the 1920's) was the 1940 Mark of Zorro staring Tyrone Power and Basil Wrathbone and is arguably one of the best of the Hollywood golden era of swashbuckling.

  • @KJGould
    @KJGould 3 месяца назад +1

    Great reaction. You two have great energy bouncing off eachother.

  • @jerodast
    @jerodast 3 месяца назад

    First of all, really impressed you had such ongoing banter but were keyed into every detail and calling a lot of the things as they happened!
    Also, "Love is Vlind, Season 6" is easily the best joke I've ever seen about a comic book film 😆😆

  • @Endgame_01
    @Endgame_01 3 месяца назад

    You guys make a very cute duo. This reaction felt more fun because you had a partner to bounce ideas off of

  • @spezzini
    @spezzini 3 месяца назад

    Hugo Weaving is V, who worked with the Wachowskis in The Matrix (Agent Smith) He’s also Elrond in Lord of the Rings. V originally was a different actor who quit or got fired and then Hugo came in, so there are some scenes that are with the other Actor but since he was wearing a mask no need to reshoot. This was a Maskter class in acting. Mask work is extremely hard but he was able to convoy so many different emotions not just from his lines but his mannerisms and movements. Re chevere tus reviews. New tattoo?

  • @s.oliver3687
    @s.oliver3687 3 месяца назад +1

    "V for Vendetta" is based on a graphic novel.

  • @michaelterry3885
    @michaelterry3885 3 месяца назад +1

    This movie is practically a historical documentary...

  • @dufflepod
    @dufflepod 3 месяца назад

    Fantastic film. Sooo underrated.

  • @unklebacon44
    @unklebacon44 3 месяца назад

    Point of reference. Natalie was born in Jerusalem. I believe her mom is American, and dad is Israeli.

  • @indade
    @indade 3 месяца назад

    13:46 Oh yeah! Kool Aid Man 😉

  • @Gerthebear1962
    @Gerthebear1962 3 месяца назад

    This movie is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore/David Lloyd

  • @strangebotwin-
    @strangebotwin- Месяц назад +1

    Poor girl had to hold that microphone for like 2 hours.

  • @juan3designer
    @juan3designer 3 месяца назад

    Cuuando dijo "la casa de papel" supe que era costeña jajajaj

  • @user-lv8us9dp8d
    @user-lv8us9dp8d Месяц назад

    The virus was not the goal. Just an added bonus.❤

  • @WilliamGreer
    @WilliamGreer 2 месяца назад

    This was nice.

  • @andrewsawyer1375
    @andrewsawyer1375 3 месяца назад +1

    Really good & and a message that can be overlooked.

  • @joegarcia3214
    @joegarcia3214 3 месяца назад +1

    And I thought cristy was funny when she reacted alone.

  • @kenmercer8112
    @kenmercer8112 3 месяца назад

    loved you girls watching this....arguing over the plot, better become a regular.

  • @innercircle341
    @innercircle341 3 месяца назад +1

    Regretting crimes against humanity, genocide and other vilness does not absolve the perpetrator.
    Those who collaborated and profited from the German regime in WW2 are forever damned as the souless scum of humanity.
    And the chatacters who did evil in this movie are just as bad.
    No mercy, no forgiveness and no redemption for such monsters.

  • @3dbadboy1
    @3dbadboy1 3 месяца назад

    At one time, I lived in Argentina. It's not quite Colombia. Do you forgive me, lol?

    • @CristyReacts
      @CristyReacts  3 месяца назад +1

      My brother lives in Argentina! I love Argentina!

  • @one1charlie643
    @one1charlie643 3 месяца назад

    this movie is a prophesy, we are seeing it play out before our very eyes

  • @boqndimitrov8693
    @boqndimitrov8693 3 месяца назад +38

    they say that the face is the most important tool of the actor. apparently not when that actor is Hugo Weaving!

    • @Ephem13
      @Ephem13 3 месяца назад +4

      He has had some of the most incredible roles imaginable and absolutely killed it in all of them.

    • @jerodast
      @jerodast 3 месяца назад +7

      Huge Weaving as V. Karl Urban as Judge Dredd. Two excellent faceless comic book performances.

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 3 месяца назад +43

    25:50 Surridge is different from V's other victims. Every _other_ victim V has, in this movie, when their moment comes, they plead with V to be spared, but not Delia.
    She finds out that V has injected her with something lethal and her first concern is whether it will be painful.
    He assures her that it won't be.
    Then she sighs, the fear dissipates, and sadness sets in. "Is it meaningless to apologize?"
    Suddenly, it's evident, somewhere along the line, it occurred to her the sheer _evil_ of what she'd been doing. You can be sure, at first, she was horrified. But then she was possessed of the need to make amends and her greatest fear has been that she would die before that happened.
    Does she ask to be spared? Does she plead with V to give her some kind of imagined antidote? No. She has resigned herself to her fate, and when she apologizes, it's clear, she's speaking from guilt, not fear.
    In this, she is redeemed.

  • @quieness
    @quieness 3 месяца назад +66

    "Cus we hate the goverment"
    "THIS.....GOVERMENT, THIS FAKE FAKE GOVERMENT" *looks at the camera nervously*
    JAJAJAJA 10/10

  • @alancrofoot
    @alancrofoot 3 месяца назад +41

    The confidence of a young actress to shave her head on camera is amazing. Natalie has been a top tier actress since the age of 11 in Leon - The Professional.

    • @blueroninstudios
      @blueroninstudios 3 месяца назад +5

      I think she said once in an interview "Well it is hair. No worries, it grows back!" Made me laugh and respect her even more as an actor, she has guts.

    • @blueroninstudios
      @blueroninstudios 3 месяца назад +1

      @@mateussoares3569 Im sure that was a factor in it, too! LOL

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 3 месяца назад +22

    23:41 "What does Irish... eh-eh... Ireland have to with it?"
    "I don't know."
    Historically, England and Ireland have had a discordant relationship. It doesn't really have good reasons behind it, especially nowadays, but if you're looking to sow seeds of suspicion and mistrust, they give you something to work with.

    • @maxducoudray
      @maxducoudray 3 месяца назад +6

      A huge part of it is the Catholic vs Protestant schism, especially since Britain’s identity is heavily wrapped up in reforming the doctrines of the Catholic Church.

    • @lazyperfectionist1
      @lazyperfectionist1 3 месяца назад +2

      @@maxducoudray That has, historically, been part of it, but the last few generations, both religions have been on the decline, and nowadays, both countries are getting along a lot better as a result.

  • @DavidStebbins
    @DavidStebbins 3 месяца назад +12

    V for Vendetta was a graphic novel started in a British anthology between 1982 and 1985 and completed by DC (which is why the DC logo appeared at the start of the film) in 1988-89. I loved the movie so much that I also bought an anniversary edition of the complete graphic novel to read that as well. The dystopia depicted in the movie/novel seems at once both impossible and also closer to reality every year.

    • @jamespfp
      @jamespfp 2 месяца назад +1

      See also Alan Moore who developed a long-term relationship with DC during the 1980s which eventually led to several film adaptations of his works, including "The Watchmen" and "From Hell".

  • @Mazecraft
    @Mazecraft 3 месяца назад +14

    The Valerie vignette hands down is one of the best stories ever told in a script, and directly pulled from the comic. Honestly the film was so important for our time! Loved your reactions! You should pair up again when you can!

  • @thaddeusskywalker5293
    @thaddeusskywalker5293 3 месяца назад +19

    Hugo Weaving's voice is so iconic!

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 3 месяца назад +24

    38:50 Consider the significance of this. V has built an exhibit to preserve the memory of his former inmate. She's gone but she lives on in his memory.

  • @SkullAngel002
    @SkullAngel002 3 месяца назад +8

    28:52 - V's powers were the result of the "anomalies" found in his blood. His body's reaction to the experiments was enhanced strength, stamina, reflexes, and pain tolerance.

  • @shanepye7078
    @shanepye7078 3 месяца назад +40

    V was an anti hero / necessary monster, and he knew that he must die with the “old world” that created him.
    “When on a quest for revenge, dig two graves”

    • @robling1937
      @robling1937 3 месяца назад +2

      V is a great example of an anti hero! I think a lot of people throw around that term and don't really understand it or use it correctly. V is a great example of an anti hero because he has a heroic goal (free the people from their oppressive government) but is going about it in an arguably un-heroic way (Killing and destroying).

  • @davidw3281
    @davidw3281 3 месяца назад +8

    Meli-“Do you think we get to see his face?”
    Evey- “He was all of us.”

  • @landonmonday8920
    @landonmonday8920 3 месяца назад +6

    Cristy said he doesn't get to see what he's building. There is a fantastic quote from Andor from another revolutionary "I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see."

  • @lazyperfectionist1
    @lazyperfectionist1 3 месяца назад +10

    36:23 "Maybe... Maybe it was V."
    Cristy, this guest of yours is _incredibly_ astute.

  • @jonlight670
    @jonlight670 3 месяца назад +3

    Watch “Children of Men” another dystopian view of the world

  • @orangewarm1
    @orangewarm1 3 месяца назад +2

    Ireland and England have a long adversarial relationship since 1542. Henry VIII wanted to bring Ireland under English control so the island would not become a base for rebellions or foreign invasions. Swift wrote about it (disguised) in Gullivers Travels. Unionists and loyalists are mostly Ulster Protestants. They want Northern Ireland to remain within the United Kingdom. Irish nationalists and republicans, who are mostly Irish Catholics, want Northern Ireland to leave the United Kingdom and join a united Ireland. The IRA was created to fight British rule. Irish people have been viewed with suspicion by Royalists ever since.

    • @wyterabitt2149
      @wyterabitt2149 3 месяца назад

      Or go further back, and Ireland was one of the major centres for slave trading - and took slaves from the British mainland to trade.
      "The IRA was created to fight British rule"
      Not any that has existed for a very, very long time. The terrorist nutjobs who bombed for decades had nothing to do with the actual IRA.

  • @eolair
    @eolair 3 месяца назад +26

    Its Hugo Weaving that plays V, it will probably blow your mind, but you know him as Elrond in Lord of the Rings, and Red Skull in Captain America. He also plays Agent Smith in The Matrix which is another Wachowski film.

    • @Smileybeeblevrox
      @Smileybeeblevrox 3 месяца назад +2

      Well, kind of. Actually he was hired at the last minute to redo most of the scenes, but some of the fighting scenes Hugo recalls not doing them so they kept some of the original actor scenes in this.

  • @phj223
    @phj223 3 месяца назад +6

    "This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of them!"
    gold star if you know the reference ;)

  • @tigqc
    @tigqc 3 месяца назад +4

    Meli definitely needs to do more reactions with you on here Cristy. You work great together.

  • @asaashara2592
    @asaashara2592 3 месяца назад +24

    The crazier they are the more women love them 😂

    • @torres3359
      @torres3359 3 месяца назад +7

      "I can fix him"

  • @Ecroartu
    @Ecroartu Месяц назад +1

    the thing in the end when they show all the people who dies- it was a "face reveal" moment. showing that, what Evey says, V- is everyone.

  • @SilverionX
    @SilverionX 3 месяца назад +1

    There are good movies, and then there are movies that change the way you view the world, even if it's just a little bit. V is that kind of movie for me. The other one I immediately think of is The Truman Show.

  • @Joe_77_
    @Joe_77_ 3 месяца назад +1

    "What is in his Body that he survive all of this?"
    PURE Venegance!

  • @qwaurk985
    @qwaurk985 3 месяца назад +5

    I noticed the wet ground in night scenes years and years ago. It has a specific term called a Wet Down and apparently it's just for appearance purposes.
    Movies are also almost always released on a Wednesday or Friday in theaters, and on Thursdays for DVD/Blu-Ray.

  • @JohnSmith-wl8ts
    @JohnSmith-wl8ts 3 месяца назад +2

    I've never seen people laugh and smile through some of the most heart breaking scenes. People getting tortured and murdered then thrown in pits. I don't see how thats funny/

    • @CristyReacts
      @CristyReacts  3 месяца назад

      Aw

    • @mamalannightshyaman
      @mamalannightshyaman Месяц назад

      Would you relax, they’re two friends watching a movie. I watched Texas chainsaw with my brothers when I was 7 and they were joking to break the stress. Don’t be so judgmental, it wasn’t something that actually happened

  • @scottedwards8895
    @scottedwards8895 3 месяца назад +1

    V is Hugo weaving you know him from The matrix

  • @grife3000
    @grife3000 3 месяца назад +3

    Great catch to see Valerie in the internment camp, you pretty much called out the reveal later that it was a note to V. Melissa had great insight into the movie. And a terrific smile.

  • @unionnet27
    @unionnet27 3 месяца назад +1

    23:36 The British have done some horrible things to the Irish people. There has been animosity for hundreds of years.

    • @wyterabitt2149
      @wyterabitt2149 3 месяца назад +1

      And Ireland was once a major centre for slave trading, and took British people from the mainland.
      And Rome once ruled over the UK many, many hundreds of years. And Germany once bombed England daily taking 43k people, injuring more, wiping out over a million homes (and of course over on the European mainland did what we all know). The list goes on.
      It's only Ireland who still whines in this way, they need to get over it.

  • @benadams6767
    @benadams6767 3 месяца назад +3

    People should not be afraid of their government, governments should be afraid of their people. Absolutely right.

  • @geoman8912
    @geoman8912 3 месяца назад +1

    Lo siento boss but she laughs her butt off when she watches you cry...it was written all over her laughing face.😂😂😂😂😂

  • @positivelynegative9149
    @positivelynegative9149 3 месяца назад +1

    9:20 Feeling the need to point out that they're talking about the government in the movie, and not the real government of any particular real country that shall go unnamed... 😬

  • @flexableferret
    @flexableferret Месяц назад

    32:43
    💖Was wondering if yall noticed the rat didn't want the food.🐀
    Love Cristy but also loved you two together. Yall should do long distance collab reactions sometimes like I see other reactors doing. Pretty sure others thouroughly enjoyed Meli's presence in this vid as well.💖
    Also, "hydration mug" cracked me up for some reason😂

  • @tylerwarren3809
    @tylerwarren3809 3 месяца назад +1

    Your editor is cute

  • @ericswanson411
    @ericswanson411 3 месяца назад +5

    Great reaction to a great movie. The truth being told in this movie is sadly being ignored by so many people today. I am glad that the two of you liked it.

  • @jonasfermefors
    @jonasfermefors Месяц назад

    This is the last part of a complex chain that started in with George Orwell's novel 1984 that came out in 1948. George Orwell's dystopian future UK that was made into a film in 1984 with John Hurt as the protagonist Winston Smith. Alan Moore wrote the V for Vendetta comics and took a lot of inspiration from the setting of the 1984 novel but turned the narrative in a different direction. Then the Wachowskis wrote the screen play for this movie - a screen play that took the plot from the comics but mixed it with the mood of the Orwell novel. To tie it all together John Hurt was cast in this one too but now as Chancellor Sutler.

  • @miorandmior
    @miorandmior 3 месяца назад

    This movie has more meaning if you actually know Guy Fawkes' story. The British celebrate guy fawkes day by burning bonfires 🙂. You couldn't tell by the first few minutes how that govt is? The incident in the alleyway ought to have made it clear. 😂. So is he a terrorist for fighting back? 😁. As for redemption , would you accept redemption for say Jeffrey dahmer? Hitler? Someone who embezzled from a pension scheme?

  • @Sidistic_Atheist
    @Sidistic_Atheist 3 месяца назад

    If you haven't ever watched *"EQUILIBRIUM"* it's another awesome dystopian movie, on a par with this movie.
    It stars, so many similarly awesome British actors like Christian Bale, Emily Watson and even Sean Bean.

  • @RustyRagesRegularly
    @RustyRagesRegularly 3 месяца назад

    Oh please watch more DC movies. I would recommend starting with 1978’s Superman: The Movie and go from there. And yes as others have said you two have amazing chemistry I’d like to see you guys collaborate on a reaction again someday. Edit: Hugo Weaving played V and I’m pretty sure he was under the mask the entire time like it was never a stand in/stunt double unless the scene called for a stunt that Hugo couldn’t or wouldn’t do, Nope correction to my own post certain scenes in the movie actually have James Purfoey as V (He was originally cast to play V before Hugo took over a few weeks into production)

  • @phaethonprime3790
    @phaethonprime3790 Месяц назад

    Having a bunch of beers with you 2, or lots of wine would be really fun. Weed might actually be even more entertaining. ;) Either way, I'm going to hit on your friend.

  • @TrevorJamesMcNeil
    @TrevorJamesMcNeil 27 дней назад

    You aren't supposed to know if he is good or bad. Alan Moore, who wrote the the original book, is basically an anarchists, who believes in the principle of "creative destruction" i.e. destroying the old to create a clean layer of rubble to build something new. As well as the notion that "the government should be afraid of the people" once opining in an interview that "I don't believe people need to be 'governed" most people, at most need an administration." Government, at its best, is little more than a wide-reaching administration and the politicians glorified managers.

  • @jamespfp
    @jamespfp 2 месяца назад

    10:19 -- RE: She's Not English! [ie. Nat Portman]; A: True, not British, but she's been acting "across the Pond" since she was a child, for directors like Luc Besson. Dollars to donuts she picked up a British accent long, long ago because she was living for months in Europe and more or less using London as home base.

  • @shadowfire_08
    @shadowfire_08 3 месяца назад +2

    my fav movie ever
    7:40 well, now you have to play Pokemon 😂
    yeah the roots of the England/Ireland division is also based in the Catholic/Protestant church reformations

  • @simonkapadia7582
    @simonkapadia7582 2 месяца назад

    You'd have to highlight two major themes here. The film does tend to go in for moral ambiguity, and the recontextualisation helps with that. V is a terrorist, he does kill people who are, in some cases, probably just ordinary members of the police. The film tends to portray most people as ignorant of how truly abhorrent the Government is, they aren't depicted as raving fascists, rather most of them are either cynical opportunists or just doing their best in a difficult situation.
    Even the voters, the general population was culpable, they allowed their country to become what it has become. Very few people are purely victims, and very few people are purely evil.
    Discovering what the coroner really did, and how she really thought at the time is important because you first see her being contrite, genuinely sorry for what she did, and that prepares you to feel conflicted when you see how extremely culpable she was in her contribution. There's a lot of value in them re-framing the impression you already have of her.
    You're meant to sometimes feel like V is the hero, and sometimes like he's a villain, because that's . . realistic, honestly. Terrorism is always abhorrent, but what about when you remove all legitimate avenues to address oppression, cruelty and worse? Sometimes terrible, unforgivable crimes are the only option available to people who have had every legitimate means taken away from them.
    The second thing, of course, is symbolism. V losing his memory of himself and his past is important. When he says that what they did created him, he doesn't just mean that it caused the damage to his body and mind, or that it set him on a path to revenge. He also meant that the letters he received were a formative experience. The symbols that helped to shape him as a person were those symbols. To him the message that he then forwarded on to Evie is at the heart of who he is, because it's the first mask he wore, before he adopted the one for which he is known. It's the first cloak he threw over his sense of self and personality.
    The destruction of Parliament, thus, is both things. It is a symbol, but he is also requiring her to take on agency. He will conduct the final killings, the final bloody acts of his life, but she has to choose to accept, and justify, and embrace his actions, his cause, even if she isn't complicit in the violence. The symbol and the moral ambiguity go together, because they must, he cannot simply be a scapegoat and take all the sins of the country onto himself. The people had to rise up, and while the army stood down and averted a massacre, people did die.
    There was no innocent way to escape the consequences of the sins of the past. And destroying the building was not an erasure of that past, it was a manifestation of an erasure that had already happened, a fall from grace, a destruction of what the buildings were "meant" to represent in the mind of the public. The Government was no longer even operating out of the building, it was purely symbolic.
    It's important not to think there is anything heroic at any stage in the story. If anything, it's about how hard it is to challenge the power structures that have formed, and to make the sacrifices required. Because it is not just a risk to yourself, your comfort, your status, your life, but also to your own sense of morality. When the worst, most violent people have taken control, there is no longer any way to remove them save to sacrifice your own morality, or to wait and hope, that it all falls apart, that some other power intercedes. Something.
    That's the paralysis in the film. They aren't in 1940s Germany, they aren't all full of hate and internalised ideology. Most of them know things are bad, but they're just getting on with doing their own job in their own lives as best they can, practicing their own private morality where possible. It's only the minority who are truly monstrous, and very few people know about what the leadership truly did, as we see via the police investigation, even very senior people are unaware of the truth.
    In that sense the moral ambiguity paints the characters kindly, it makes them passive perpetuators of the system, complicit in their inaction, but not actively bad people. When they are given the chance to end the tyranny they themselves voted for, they take it. We can't ever know how many people cheered for it, of course. As with the coroner, we only see that they aren't happy with it now, not how they behaved in the past.
    The actual Guy Fawkes, the historical figure, was essentially a somewhat reluctant terrorist. And the bonfire night which has commemorated that attempt down the centuries is a symbol that has taken on many meanings. To some it was about "anti-popery", to others it was simply about a failed attack, to still others it represented a kind of perverse celebration of the attack, the idea that Governments should fear their people (the civil war followed the Gunpowder plot a few decades later, but it was between Parliament and King, not "Government and people", the many revolts and uprisings have usually failed, and when they succeed, it rarely ends well. Violence is almost never a good answer to anything, but it can be a necessary source of power, and the fear of unrest was one factor in the Reform Acts). Governments should not fear their people, they should simply serve them.
    But that's the thing, symbols don't have fixed meanings. And we don't know that what comes after the uprising at the end of the film is good. Anymore than we would know that of the French revolution, if we didn't see what happened after.
    All we know is symbolism is very central. It's enormously important to him to communicate what he is doing in a way he hopes people will understand, whether that is by roses, music, killings, or explosions. The symbols are the real power, because what is needed is for everyone to agree to end the system of Government. What is needed is to cohere the public will around that goal. What comes next, is for other people.
    He certainly accepts that he is sacrificing his own morality to achieve a broader moral purpose, to defend the innocence of others by eliminating the main obstacles to change through his own crimes, but that he cannot be a hero without being a villain, and the villain cannot, under any circumstances, become the person who creates the future.

  • @user-lv8us9dp8d
    @user-lv8us9dp8d Месяц назад

    Thank you. I've reacted to those who stated "why wont you just listen to tye government" and were terified of having more control of their own opinions tgan the government.❤✌🙏

  • @birgerfurugard7259
    @birgerfurugard7259 2 месяца назад

    7:42 "I haven’t caught any" OMG, that is outrageous. Anyhow still gr8
    😊

  • @fastone7272
    @fastone7272 Месяц назад

    Families have seen their loved ones get *hung*. Also the hijack was inspired by this movie. Also V has a rare condition where he can't feel pain or discomfort.

  • @LeonardoG1981
    @LeonardoG1981 3 месяца назад

    Natalie Portman is Israeli born and raised in the US. Siendo Colombianas no se si alguna vez vieron Matrix o el Señor de los anillos, y si las vieron no se si la vieron en Español o en Ingles, pero si vieron esas peliculas en Ingles hubieran reconocido al actor detras de la mascara.
    As he said, the skin behind the mask isn't him any more than the flesh beneath the skin or the bones beneath the flesh. The reason they don't show the actor's face is because he represents an idea and the face beneath the mask is not what is relevant.
    Watching this movie after the pandemic take a whole new meaning.

  • @phaethonprime3790
    @phaethonprime3790 Месяц назад

    (Brendan Fraiser from Bedazzled): Oh my God I do speak Spanish!

  • @robling1937
    @robling1937 3 месяца назад

    DC have had really great horror and fantasy comics that do have some superhero presence, but they are definitely really interesting and well done. Swamp Thing and Sandman are two that jump to mind.

  • @tharsthat
    @tharsthat 3 месяца назад

    Wow your English is so good I could not pick that you are in Columbia. Yeah his banter is old English I have trouble keeping up.

  • @JHolt_88
    @JHolt_88 3 месяца назад +1

    35:28 LOL

  • @alexglezarch
    @alexglezarch 3 месяца назад

    Brutal movie. Very prophetic, today's world is almost just that. Just 10 steps left to be that bad.

  • @VadulTharys
    @VadulTharys 3 месяца назад

    The director tied this movie to another movie about abusive government 1984, the actor playing the Chancelor was the main character in 1984 and there were a couple other actors from 1984 in V. The movie is a message as are the DC graphic novels. After the Coof reaction in the western nations many saw how this movie was almost prophetic. Now you need to react to the Zorro movies.

  • @aaronburdon221
    @aaronburdon221 2 месяца назад

    To understand why saying someone is irish in the government is a bad thing, you'd have to be moderately well informed about English history. Ireland was a hotbed of a considerable amount of insurrection and resentment (a decent portion of it deserved) to the English people. That's putting it in a nutshell but there are volumes written about it.

  • @chandie5298
    @chandie5298 3 месяца назад

    54:05 .....acting behind a mask must be numerous levels of magnitude more difficult because you have to act without using your face at all.
    It takes an incredibly skilled actor to do that successfully..... I can only think of two or three who would be able to do that. We're lucky that one of those people were chosen for this role.

  • @gcrum2416
    @gcrum2416 Месяц назад

    The time in the movie as of 43.19 minutes in. looks like the riots as of 2024 8/08/2024

  • @Lorenzo_49
    @Lorenzo_49 3 месяца назад

    You said that you hated that he was dead. But he wasn't dead, technically. He was an idea. And like V said "ideas are bulletproof". Everyone who showed up was him. Dead or alive, they all had the same ideas and virtue and he sacrificed himself for that very same idea. So very much lives on through them. That's why you hear Evie saying he was my brother my mother my father, he was all of us. But also why you hear her in the beginning saying " I will never forget the man and what he meant to me" because even though he was an idea he was still a man

  • @Lorenzo_49
    @Lorenzo_49 3 месяца назад

    You said that you hated that he was dead. But he wasn't dead, technically. He was an idea. And like V said "ideas are bulletproof". Everyone who showed up was him. Dead or alive, they all had the same ideas and virtue and he sacrificed himself for that very same idea. So very much lives on through them. That's why you hear Evie saying he was my brother my mother my father, he was all of us. But also why you hear her in the beginning saying " I will never forget the man and what he meant to me" because even though he was an idea he was still a man

  • @T.R.75
    @T.R.75 3 месяца назад

    the original story was a graphic novel published by DC. the creator was Alan Moore. if you enjoyed this, check out Watchmen, another Alan Moore creation for DC that was made into a movie. this movie, is as relevant now as it was back when Moore originally created it. its about fascism and how it creeps into a country, and just how hard it is to remove it once it takes hold. very dystopian, and a cautionary tale for all. enjoyed the reaction.

  • @jeanine6328
    @jeanine6328 Месяц назад

    Not sure how I’ve not seen your reaction yet. I search for this one pretty often, oh well, you were suggested today so here we go. Thanks for what you do. May your views and likes always be equal.

  • @SirStarGazer00
    @SirStarGazer00 3 месяца назад

    You're probably too young to remember but Marvel entertainment made Men In Black and the Punisher. He's not a super hero

  • @user-ne2th2hq7k
    @user-ne2th2hq7k Месяц назад

    ヘラヘラしょうもないコメントはかりでせっかくの良いシーンが台無しだ

  • @johntaphouse5235
    @johntaphouse5235 10 дней назад

    at the end eve said "he was my father my mother.. he was all of us".. thats why you got the people removing there masks and seeing those that had passed...they were him

  • @erikanderson4898
    @erikanderson4898 3 месяца назад

    I think you would like "The Usual Suspects" if you like suspense movies loved the reaction with the both of you

  • @yaimavol
    @yaimavol 16 дней назад

    so few reactors have reacted to this movie. Let me give you another classic that is under the radar. Ben Hur. You will agree when you see this film it is one of the top 10 you have ever seen. Please react

  • @IrishSetter01
    @IrishSetter01 3 месяца назад

    "Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent."

  • @michaelallen3894
    @michaelallen3894 3 месяца назад +3

    V is both the good guy and the bad guy. Lol

    • @HappyHarryHardon
      @HappyHarryHardon 3 месяца назад

      The only people that think he’s the bad guy is the totalitarian government.