An · Erraich

Because it just rocks *that* hard. I wanted very badly to see it one last time on the bigscreen, because I think its days up there are very numbered around here anyway. It only has two times listed, so I went to the 10:25pm showing with Maggie, from work. She had never seen it, but I needed to see it again. It's just the kind of movie you need to see at least twice, I think. There are so many layers to it.

Somehow, if possible, I think it actually affected me *more* strongly than it did the first time. Perhaps it's the sleep deprivation. After all, it is almost 1am and I've been up since 5am, so I'm probably a little more than kind of tired. But it might also be just that when you watch it again, you spend less time trying to make sure you understand the plot, and so you simply absorb all the amazing and wonderful symbolism, messages, undertones, the *layers* of this movie. I am at a loss as to how the same men who were responsible for the atrocities that were the second and third Matrix movies could produce something like this, which I am considering to be one of the most beautifully rendered and best movies I have ever seen. But I have a feeling it has a lot to do with Hugo Weaving, and the fact that he's not a charicature like he was in the Matrix movies, but a *character*, and a damn big one at that. It's true what Evey says at the end, he somehow manages to encompass so many things, and so many aspects. As he says, he is more than a man, he's an idea.

My favourite line is this:

"No, what you have are bullets, and you'd better pray that when your guns are empty, that I am dead. Because if I am still standing, you will all be dead before you can reload." (that's V)

The fangirly part of me wants to rub Hugo Weaving's voice all over my body. The actor in me wants to rub his acting all over my brain. Does that make sense? Or is the the tired talking?

Either way. Some things struck me tonight in ways that hadn't struck me before. Particularly the scene with Evey in the rain, and the way that they intersperse the images of V in the fire. I loved the similarities and yet the differences. Fire and water. Created differently and yet the same. Opposites, and yet equally powerful in their own right, and somehow, they can compliment each other.

The "bullet time with knives" scene actually took my breath away this time around, and at the end when I saw all the "V's" marching on parlament, I actually felt as if my throat had closed. Agh!

When I got into the car after, Live was still in the player. I'm glad I was listening to "Run to the Water" today, because suddenly I couldn't help but feel it was a song for V and Evey, in whatever capacity you like best to think of them. Lyrics are below for your convenience.

Run to the Water
Live

Oh desert speak to my heart,
Oh woman of the earth,
Maker of children who weep for love,
Maker of this birth.
'Til your deepest secrets are known to me,
I will not be moved.
I will not be moved.

"Don't try to find the answer,
When there ain't no question here.
Brother let your heart be wounded,
And give no mercy to your fear."

Adam and Eve live down the street from me,
Babylon is every town.
It's as crazy as it's ever been,
Love's a stranger all around.

In a moment we lost our minds here,
And lay our spirit down.
Today we lived a thousand years,
All we have is now.

Run to the water,
And find me there,
Burnt to the core but not broken.
We'll cut through the madness
Of these streets below the moon.
These streets below the moon.

And I will never leave you
'til we can say,
"This world was just a dream,
we were sleepin', now we are awake."
'Til we can say

In a moment we lost our minds here,
And dreamt the world was round.
A million mile fall from grace,
Thank God we missed the ground.

Run to the water,
And find me there,
Burnt to the core, but not broken.
We'll cut through the madness,
of these streets below the moon,
With a nuclear fire of love in our hearts.

Yeah, I can see it now, Lord,
Out beyond all the breakin' of waves
and the tribulation.
It's a place and the home of ascended souls
Who swam out there in love!

Run to the water,
And find me there.
Burnt to the core but not broken.
We'll cut through the madness
Of these streest below the moon,

With a nuclear fire of love in our hearts.
Rest easy, baby, rest easy,
And recognise it all as light and rainbows
Smashed to smitherneens, and be happy.
Run to the water (and find me there.)
Run to the water.

Wow, there's more lyrics in that song that I realised. XD Oh well. If you read them, *thanks*. Let me know what you think, plskthnx. ^^ *Especially* Julie and Imouto-chan.

Sleep.