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You don't have to be a wild-eyed conspiracy theorist to draw a line between this story and some versions of how contemporary events could play out. The government's slick and vile TV mouthpiece, for instance, could be almost any talk-radio host of today, and the Kafkaesque new ways hardly seem outre in a world where a couple can fall under government scrutiny for paying off their credit cards too quickly, as happened recently in Rhode Island. This is what's so effective about "V for Vendetta": the sense that a terrifying story is just a little way down the slippery slope from where we now unsteadily stand. A fiction, it's more alarming and convincing than any of the shrill political documentaries that have tried to stir outrage in recent years. Of course, a lot of its impact has to do with the quality of the film craft. (it) |
