"I shall die here. Every last inch of me shall perish. Except one... An inch. It's small and it's fragile and it's the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it, or sell it, or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.... I don't know who you are. Or whether you're a man or a woman. I may never see you or cry with you or get drunk with you. But I love you."

V for Vendetta - a flawed but engrossing adaptation of the classic graphic novel -hasn't been getting the best reviews in the UK which is almost as surprising as the venom / condecending tone that some of those negatives reviews have had. But the one that gets me most was a line from the Mail on Sunday which includes reference to a 'ludicrous lesbian sub-plot'.

It's all about context and that "Valerie" sequence in the must-see 'V' is beautiful and heartbreaking all at once. I wonder if the same reviewer thought there were 'wacky Jewish shower scenes' in Schindler's List.