Best typography thingie ever.

What a great movie.

Wow, put a V in the title and its excuse for everyone to speak in V shaped tongues.

Alliteration, For the Vin!

I don't see how this applies to either scifi or waronterror, so *nochannel, *animation, *art, *cinima, and *politics just because the movie was about overthrowing governments that abuse the people and stomp on their rights.

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i put it under scifi as it was a graphic novel written in the 80s, set in a stark black-and-white dystopian science-ridden "future" in London. maybe *dark is a more accurate vord?

and seeing as how the filmmakers added topical references relevant to a 2006 audience, as per the L.A. Times, "with a wealth of new, real-life parallels to draw from in the areas of government surveillance, torture, fear-mongering and media manipulation, not to mention corporate corruption and religious hypocrisy," i think a waronterror tag is justified...

additionally, per wikipedia, there are "numerous references in the film to events surrounding the current American administration. These include the black bags worn by the prisoners in Larkhill that have been seen as a reference to the black bags worn by prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq and in U.S.-administered Guantánamo Bay in Cuba."

also in the film, "London is under a yellow-coded curfew alert, similar to the US Government's colour-coded Homeland Security Advisory System, and there is even a brief scene (during the Valerie flashback) that contains real-life footage of an anti-Iraq war demonstration, with mention of President George W. Bush."

lastly, "the film contains references to 'America's war' and 'the war America started' as well as real footage from the Iraq War."

so yeah, *waronterror anyone?

No I would disagree, the films simplistic allusions to the war on terror is simply beating around the bush with the giant elephant in the room without specifically saying anything of value.

I hate movies that do that, because it's building off what is occurring now, to make it seem topical but they are not really. The original Thatcher era setting makes more sense then what was created there, a better example of setting was Children of Men.

The entire films premise and idea shows that individually people are weak and need an antagonist to bring about real change within the world, an idealistic and horribly trite idea. (By the way this is from someone who is a fan of the original graphical novel)

Well, I loved the movie, and I love Hugo's handling of this and other speeches in it.

Not EVERYTHING has to be deeply topical or political, why can't it just be fun.

Not to say that Children of Men isn't a damn brilliant movie demonstrating what can be done to a society who is fed a steady supply of fear.