![]() Like the comic, the film is set in a near future, though now the time stamp is circa 2020. ![]() Written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd, "V for Vendetta" originated as a limited comic series in the early 1980's, just around the time that Margaret Thatcher was re-elected for the second of three terms. Is the man in the mask who wants to make Parliament go boom Osama bin Laden or Patrick Henry? Or just a Phantom of the Opera clone who likes to kick back to the cult sounds of Antony and the Johnsons? Your guess is as good as mine, and I've seen the film. Concocted by the same team behind the "Matrix" franchise, this future-shock story about a masked avenger at war with a totalitarian British regime was drawn along the usual Orwellian lines but is clearly meant to have more than a passing resemblance to our current political environment. ![]() Thumb suckers of the world unite, the most hotly anticipated film of the, er, week, "V for Vendetta," has arrived, complete with manufactured buzz and some apparently genuine British outrage. ![]()
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