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V for Vendetta and Equilibrium **Spoilers Inside**

In the last week I've watched both of these movies. I really like V for Vendetta, but I love Equilibrium.

I think V for Vendetta does a lot of things really well. It tells a compelling story, has a charismatic "hero", has complex heroes, and does more with lighting, music, and just a voice than any other movie I can think of. Hugo Weaving conveyed so much emotion and meaning with his body language and tone that I can't even do when you're looking me dead in the face it's incredible.

But I think Equilibrium gets massively shorted when it comes to dystopian future movies. V for Vendetta makes the common man someone to be acted on. Nothing but a reactionary force that will bend to the charismatic character of the time. We see it through Evey's eyes, and even she isn't immune to his charisma. But Equilibrium tells us the story of a cleric, indoctrinated by his faith and government, coming to terms with new ideas. With V we have a malcontent who finds her rebel cause, with Equilibrium we find a man forced to change.

Additionally, Equilibrium gives the side-characters and ordinary people agency. There's a vast underground full of people fighting the power. We get hint after hint throughout the movie of ordinary people resisting that ends in a culminating event where the underground rises up. V has apathy and action, but Equilibrium has complacency, passive resistance, and violent resistance.

I think a major difference is V tells us a story we can insert ourselves in with a masked hero who gets powers magically, but Equilibrium gives us a story that could be real (for a given value of reality) with a protagonist who can't be us. He trains constantly, he is devout, and he doesn't live a life of passive entertainment. He is constantly working to improve the world and himself within his own moral structure.

Honestly, I could keep going and I have so much more to say, but if you like V for Vendetta, definitely watch Equilibrium. I think it's an amazing movie that doesn't get nearly enough credit.



Submitted November 02, 2019 at 06:56PM by StuStuffedBunny https://ift.tt/2NxtnZf

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