The Wachowskis - Tumblr Posts
And all becomes clear. Wish I could make you see this brightness. Don’t worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. I understand now, that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention, if only one can first conceive of doing so. Moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own, and I know that separation is an illusion. My life extends far beyond the limitations of me.
Counterpoint: the movie is an extremely watered-down and neutered version of the book which makes the utter hellscape of V's Britain into something far less horrific, and replaces the eternal threat of Actual Fascism with something more closely resembling the neoconservativism of early-2000s America
Additionally, the book has the fascists rising to power on the back of public terror after a nuclear exchange instead of an absurdly convoluted tale of them sneaking into power via a manufactured plague and a Byzantine series of patents and contracts - the idea of "it could happen here" is completely removed and with it like 50% of the moral of the story
Additionally @ whoever said V is implied to be a lesbian or a trans man - he very very very specifically isn't implied to be anyone and it's a key feature that you don't know who he is and you'll never know who he is because the entire point of the story is he could be anyone because ALL RESISTANCE TAKES IS ONE PERSON TO SAY NO (source: Alan Moore and his increasingly slender patience)
The movie is a fun enough romp to watch on a Sunday evening but the book deserves to be enshrined as a key text in the late 20th century western canon
seeing all the 14-17 y/o queer kids who don’t know what v for vendetta is…. u mean the blockbuster film written by two trans women about a masked vigilante who decides to singlehandedly take down a fascist alternate version of england set in the distant year of 2020… and his driving force was getting justice for a lesbian who he never met but whose diary he found, who was separated from her wife before being killed by said fascist gov…. and it stars natalie portman…. okay
Carrie-Anne Moss in The Matrix (1999) dir. The Wachowskis
Keanu Reeves in The Matrix (1999) dir. The Wachowskis
First, the overture
🤗🥰🤗The classic found family trope always be my favorite trope in media, whether live-action or animated, it's incredibly heartwarming and it gets me everytime!🤗🥰🤗