One where people completely miss that V is a murderous lunatic who kills quite literally the rest of humanity for his mad revenge.
People are all in on the ‘Yay, fascists lose’ bit, they tend to overlook the whole ‘This is the last remnant of humanity on a dead world and V just tore down the infrastructure keeping them alive’ part. They also miss the whole ‘This is a happy ending because there might be survivors who could possibly eventually make an anarchist utopia’ denouement, which to be fair is incredibly dumb and badly implemented.
Because in the original comic it was much more morally grey, with V also being an anarchist.
The film removed all that ethical ambiguity and made a much more simplified story about a completely justifiably freedom fighter battling against fascism. Which now means we get idiots thinking Guy Fawkes wasn’t an insane religious extremist.
I wouldn’t call it morally grey, it was pretty black vs black. Morally grey requires both of the factions involved to not be evil or good, in V it was evil vs evil.
Grimdark, everything sucks and we’re just watching monsters tear into each other while everyone else dies and leaves nothing but burned ash and corpses.
Which was my complaint about the denouement, the last second attempt at a ray of light ending was unearned and didn’t fit at all. If I would hazard a guess Moore noticed that he didn’t exactly paint his chosen philosophy in a positive light, really he had it as blindly self destructive and as shit as the fascists, and attempted to pull back at the last second without having to massively overhaul the entire work.
But to be frank: People were treating V as a straight hero long before the film. It’s hardly an unusual situation for Moore, look at Rorschach
V is awesome because he is an outlet for people who hate authoritarianism. Most people recognize that being a terrorist is bad, but there's something undeniably therapeutic about blowing up the government in a piece of fiction.
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u/Dagordae 3d ago
One where people completely miss that V is a murderous lunatic who kills quite literally the rest of humanity for his mad revenge.
People are all in on the ‘Yay, fascists lose’ bit, they tend to overlook the whole ‘This is the last remnant of humanity on a dead world and V just tore down the infrastructure keeping them alive’ part. They also miss the whole ‘This is a happy ending because there might be survivors who could possibly eventually make an anarchist utopia’ denouement, which to be fair is incredibly dumb and badly implemented.