L for Lowry.
"Nothing better illustrates the simplism of V for Vendetta, or better highlights the unflattering contrast with Brazil, than V's motto: "There are no coincidences." The comic beauty of Brazil's portrait of totalitarianism is that everything rests on random coincidence, which nudges the bureaucracy into its own blind and murderous momentum: A dead fly falls into a computer printer and -- voila -- poor law-abiding Buttle is mistaken for dangerous subversive Tuttle." Slate's Matt Feeney compares Brazil and V for Vendetta.
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