V

The last flight i came by had a pretty nice selection of movies on their in flight entertainment program. I ended up watching two of them. V for Vendetta and Kinky Boots, which is a nice movie really, though i must confess that i was not very enthusiastic about watching just from knowing its name. A classic case of judging a movie by its name. Its about a shoe factory owner who decides that instead of going down tamely, he will fight it out. That the factory work for a niche market : making shoes for transvestites. The movie has its moments, but this post is about the other movie. Specifically its about this one sentence that V says when someone rather close to him wants to get his mask off. V never appears without the mask in the movie. This is what he has to say about taking the mask off:

"There is a face behind this mask. And that face belongs to a person. But V is not that person. V is the ideas behind the mask."
Rings rather true. The person behind the mask would never have measured up to ideals set up by the mask. I wonder if that is true of bloggers too ? The blog , the ideas in the posts are just the mask. Can the person behind the mask measure upto the ideals set by its masked identity ?