V for Vendetta

What an utterly fascinating film! This movie was highly complex but very interesting all the while. There were aspects that were hard to follow and some questions that did not have easily determined answers. I attribute this however to the mere fact that we watched the movie over the course of several days and perhaps because I have only seen it once (in that manner). This movie provoked in me an element of paranoia. I have seen a few films and read a few books about totalitarian governments of the future and the destruction they impart upon the people, but this film by far stirred the most within me. After seeing this film I felt perhaps that many actions of our own government are just an evil plan to acquire what they want with minimal concern for our countries inhabitants. Aside from this pang of paranoia, I enjoyed the comical elements mixed in with the serious, sometimes rather dreadful scenes. Most comedy came from V in peculiar ways. There were certainly some elements of dark comedy through out the course of this film. I do not feel like this movie was a profound unearthing of much of anything, and I'm funny in that way that I often look for that. Despite my thoughts on it lacking a profound determination of anything, I did enjoy this film, I really certainly did. But I suppose because I always look for the profound element in anything I tend to be unsatisfied when I cannot find it. This is of course not necessary in anything, but a mere desire of my own. The plot of this film was interesting but it was not steeped with artistic elements as I often enjoy in the films I watch. It seems apparent that I cannot simply enjoy a movie. I always need to have a purpose for seeing it, I always need to learn something. I guess I did learn something in V for Vendetta and that is how vunderable I am and how easily influenced I am by most anything. I could not end this blog entry with once again reaffrming my like for this movie, it was simply just not what I tend to prefer.

HIGH NOON

I'm not really into westerns, never have been, probably never will be. I think they're a bit too American for me. I felt as if the story plot was kind of typical and only bordered slightly on interesting. In this film Will goes around the little down he lives in trying to find help to ward off Kane and his gang of bandits. No one helps. For the whole movie you're stuck assuming he's screwed, four to one, he's dead for sure. But in the back of my little mind I had a feeling that all those people would pity him and help him defeat the people who previously made their lives so fearful. I was so sure that they would come to the rescue. But contrary to my belief they didn't. I was shocked at that, I really was. But he survived and his new wife Amy, the pacifist, helped him. She saved the day more than Will did, he just had the courage to get to the place where she could do what she had to. Once learning of all the parallels to society and the political scene of the 1950s, the actions of Will and all the town people seemed kind of sensible, not what I assumed, but sensible. All in all, I would've never watched this on my own, but I still did kind of enjoy it. There were a lot of aspects of the film that were a surprise to me. For example the lack of majestic beauty that is sometimes associated with western film.