It's hard to find a better word for the titlefilm, than "vendetta". This initially implies a sharp plot, revenge, restoration of justice (if so you can treat the concept of blood revenge). And the filmmakers exploit this line, not at all embarrassed by the fact that similar stories and names without duplicates are duplicated by different authors and directors. And therefore, talking about the film, you need to remember several options at once.
Vendetta is a payment
The tradition of "an eye for an eye, blood for blood" existsin many nations. Even in Ancient Russia, which was taught to "substitute the second cheek," it was prescribed in law-making structures to give blood for the murder of someone from the clan or clan. But that's why the name "vendetta" is rooted in all languages - it's a mystery. Whether the word is sonorous and energetically filled, or the "feats" of the Sicilian Mafia that gave birth to it are impressive. About the use in the literature we will not speak, this is a topic for a separate extensive article. But the cinema is another matter.
Utopia as a genre of artistic prose has spawnedantagonistic genre in the cinema - anti-utopia. It is to him that film historians refer to the film of American director J. McTeig "V - means vendetta" based on the novel of the same name by Alan Moore. Starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving. The action takes place in the not so distant future, in 2039. US domination of the world fell, Britain is in the queue. The protagonist is a man in the mask of Guy Fawkes, who calls himself "V", a former prisoner of the camp, harboring anger for the entire totalitarian regime. Its goal is to destroy everything that personifies power, including people and buildings, and start life on the Earth from scratch. Are such victims justified? Judging by the characters in the film, the vendetta is the only way to punish the pedophile bishop, the supreme homosexual chancellor and then on the list: there are only perverts and sadists in the world! The circumstances are such that next to V is the television journalist Ivi, who is gradually drawn into his adventures, most often very cruel. Moreover, romantic feelings arise between them. The picture came out in 2006 and immediately exceeded the box-office box-office revenue many times over. Quotes from the movie "Vendetta" scattered around the world and in many languages. One of them contains the philosophy of this anti-utopia: "Violence can be used for good". A dangerous illusion ...
The second title of the film is "The Bride of Violence".This is a heavy drama of joint production of Italy, Canada and the USA, directed by Ralph L. Thomas. The main heroine Nancy, who in the first part decided to heal the spiritual wounds in the Corsican monastery, returns to America, and now she has to not only save herself again, but also to save her daughter. It so happened that it was on them that conflicts of mafia interests of two clans closed. If a weak woman can still be intimidated and forced to hide behind the walls of the monastery, then the mother defending her child can not be stopped.
And as if stayed away from soexciting topic of Russian filmmakers? True, the Russian "Vendetta" is a rather weak repetition of numerous criminal stories based on a certain collision: criminal authorities from a certain Central Asian country - they are drug lords - are opposed to noble Russian detectives. In the center of the conflict, along with Asians, the drug dealer Konstantin Oleinik, who solves his problem by inciting a "Hajistan" competitor to the grieved fathers - the mother and godfather - who died at the hands of the mafia girl. The director of the film is Oleg Turansky, the cast is quite interesting: Evgenia Loza, Nikolai Dobrynin, Anatoly Zhuravlyov and others.
Это всего лишь некоторые кинематографические works built on the idea of the inevitability of noble (or ignoble) revenge. In fact, the list of such films is much more extensive. However, it did not begin yesterday: the classic of the genre is described in the beloved novel "The Count of Monte Cristo" and in his numerous screen versions. However, in this case, the payment for sins seems really deserved, and the procedure of revenge is more refined ...
