The global Covid-19 pandemic, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the 1918 flu pandemic, blanketed the planet and has killed more than 230,0000 people in the United States alone. The paradigm has been completely been turned on its head." "A lot of what we expected of government has completely changed. "A lot of societal norms have stopped," McTeigue said. And in the pages of books like Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" (2006) and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale" (1985), the dark visions laid out for the future seemed years away at worst. In recent decades, movies have also plumbed our fears of a future in which humanity has been devastated by overpopulation ("Soylent Green" in 1973), societal collapse ("Mad Max" in 1980), technology run amok ("The Terminator" in 1984 and "The Matrix" in 1999) and a turn to authoritarianism ("Blade Runner" in 1982 and "The Hunger Games" in 2012).įor the most part, though, those cinematic visions of a post-apocalyptic future have been more about popcorn than the kernels of truth. Written 35 years before its title, George Orwell's "1984" posited a totalitarian world full of mass surveillance that already bore a resemblance to Stalinist Russia of his era. Wells tinkered with "The Time Machine" at the end of the 19th century. And in this, she finds what V calls "freedom.The genre has been a popular form of catharsis for audiences slogging through their present existences since before H.G. At last, she admits, she is no longer afraid to die. Her eventual escape only leads her to a more awful place, imprisoned and tortured. While V is hunted by a decent cop Finch (Stephen Rea), he keeps Evey at his secret lair, where he makes her tea and eggs for breakfast. While the movie allows that torture only reproduces terrorism and violence, it also presents V's scheme as revolutionary and effectively symbolic. V's rage is fueled by the usual superhero's past trauma. Out after curfew, Evey (Natalie Portman) is about to be raped by some bad cops when V appears, kills them, and initiates his instruction of the vulnerable Evey in his anarchistic plot. The underlying, irresolvable question has to do with terrorism: why and how are people pushed to commit it, and what might it achieve, aside from fear and oppression? Can calculated violence, ever, as its proponents argue, lead to "freedom"? At the center of is masked terrorist V (Hugo Weaving), who battles against a very corrupt British regime. More generic action movie than philosophical investigation, V FOR VENDETTA focuses on a young woman's political education. It explores the actions people take (supporting it, accepting it or resisting it or fighting against it). Ultimately, it's a political film about extreme governments and their players: from the head of the government on down public workers. Some of it is generalized, like what you would see in any action film or video game with guns, and some of it is up close (the context is revenge), so, its disturbing, but not gory (some blood, no guts). Showing this in the political context is important. The torture is emotionally intense, but limited. There isn't any on-screen sexual violence, but the threats of it are present, as in real life. (But if your child is interested in these topics he/she may really enjoy it.)Ģ)Sexual violence/Torture. Themes that might be harder for kids under 14 to understand. That said, I would recommend it for older teens for the following reasons:ġ)Complicated politics: involving corruption, intrigue, sabotage. The photography, dialogue, intrigue, action, musical score and special effects are excellent. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails. Characters curse occasionally (infrequent use of the f-word, plus "bloody hell," "bitch," and the s-word). When a bishop arranges for sex with an underage girl (apparently a regular practice), he's killed as punishment (but not before he pushes his would-be girl victim onto his bed). A young girl sees her mother kidnapped by government flunkies, then witnesses a similar brutality as an adult. The film includes scenes of war and police state tactics, including the brutal incarceration of race and sexual minorities in Britain. The film opens with a flashback to a 1605 hanging, and then, in the present, an imminent rape (stopped by V's violent intervention). Parents need to know that this film includes recurring and explicit violence, including explosions, martial arts fights, knifings (with bloody results quite visible), shootings, and torture inside prison cells (where one character shares her space with a rat).
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