{"id":3679,"date":"2012-12-01T20:37:17","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T20:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2012-12-09T13:56:37","modified_gmt":"2012-12-09T13:56:37","slug":"v-for-vendetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3679","title":{"rendered":"V for Vendetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/V-Vendetta-Edition-Alan-Moore\/dp\/1845762274\/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/V-for-Vendetta-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"V for Vendetta\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/V-for-Vendetta-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/V-for-Vendetta.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love the film of this and I&#8217;ve watched it twice.  I thought I&#8217;d read the comic to see how it compares.  The book is good but I didn&#8217;t enjoy it as much as the film.  I was expecting something like Maus but the illustrations weren&#8217;t as striking and occasionally I couldn&#8217;t figure out what was going on from the pictures.  Also I was expecting the pages to be glossy but they weren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The annoying thing about V is, while is it without doubt very striking, that I don&#8217;t entirely understand what it&#8217;s about.  There are loads of ideas thrown into it but, unless I am missing quite a lot, not much is tied up by the end.  I comprehended the film better but even that left me baffled at times.<\/p>\n<p>In spite of my confusion, I think this is a fine piece of work: very thought-provoking and absorbing.<\/p>\n<p>(49th in 2012)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the film of this and I&#8217;ve watched it twice. I thought I&#8217;d read the comic to see how it compares. The book is good but I didn&#8217;t enjoy it as much as the film. I was expecting something like Maus but the illustrations weren&#8217;t as striking and occasionally I couldn&#8217;t figure out what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3808,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions\/3808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}