This movie is definitely 'loaded', if you will. Whether you're left or right, you have to be pretty stupid to think lockdowns, curfews, dictatorships, and out-right censorship are a good thing for the normal you and I.
Movies definitely are a medium for people to get their political ideologies across, which is of course a good or bad thing, depending on what you agree with (imo, try and keep your specific political ideologies away from movies, TV shows, video games, etc.), and because it's so 'loaded' in that sense, I won't go into the exact specifics of what I personally did/didn't agree with, but for the generalisation of the pandemic and human testing etc, I thought it was a great movie that was eerily accurate and relatable to what the world went through in 2020 and beyond.
I gave it a 7/10. I would have given it a 9 but somehow even in 2005 they managed to make it a little woker than I like, which is a shame, but a solid 7 for the rest of the movie. Great performance from Hugo Weaving as well, I really liked him in the Matrix movies also.
Edit: Funnily enough, when I was younger, I didn't rate the movie too highly as I guess I was too young to understand what it was really about (and V's lines in the beginning of the movie didn't make sense and I maybe remembered the movie just for those somewhat confusing lines at the start more-so than anything else), but the fact it got the whole COVID stuff bang-on 15 years before it happened is pretty incredible.
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