V for VendettaEssay Preview: V for VendettaReport this essayV for Vendetta is a movie about a modern day Zorro, who wore a mask and left his V insignia on the things he considered to inflict justice on. This movie was set in Future England, under the control of parliament by a dictator named Adam Sutler. He placed unnecessary rules and regulations on his people to have control over them. He subjected them to curfews and total loss of civil rights and liberties in what should be a free society. This movie touches on terrorism, equal rights, torture, government power and terms of information in a democratic society. This movie was great on action, violence and suspense as it also touched on serious tones about the issues above.
The two main characters in this movie were V, played by Hugo Weaving and Eve, played by Nathalie Portman. Both were intertwined by fate because of there not so beautiful past. V was a tortured soul that was part of a government experiment that tested biological, nuclear war chemicals and weapons on people that were considered to be outcast. The people that fought against the government, who were homosexual or just didn’t believe in what parliament was doing were those outcast. The chemicals reacted with V’s body different then the rest of the test subjects making him basically superhuman, but not invincible. Through the movie he murders people involved in the experiments and inflicted what he called justice on these people that happened to be part of his ultimate goal, of bringing parliament down, bringing power back to the people and giving hope to what I considered a now enslaved country.
Evey was a young girl that grew up in the juvenile programs because her parents. Back when she was young her parents protested against the government for their actions, control and wars. They were taken from there homes with a black bag tied around their head and killed. Man years later. Evey goes out one night after curfew with what was called the “yellow coded curfew ” and was attacked by two men claiming to be government officials and was saved by V. During this movie V destroys buildings, (symbols) that the government placed on its citizens. V believed that symbols are given power by people and destroying the symbols would make the country better. V seen himself as speaking for the people, that parliament was wrong. He believed that people forgot that fairness, justice and freedom were not just words the were prospective and the way life should be lived. Which I agree putting a curfew on people takes away from their civil liberties and freedom.
Evey in the movie was taken from his home, and is then held by a police force. Man 19 was seen being interrogated at the movie theater. One of these people, V, has a tattoo on his chest and is asked why he has done this. V: We are here to pay tribute to a legend of honour that he once had. He did not know what his story meant. We pray that others follow the same path. What do you see and don’t you go to the movies like you are here for them?
Evey was arrested by an official of the Ministry of Health. Man 1 was released a month later, and is again arrested. Man 2 is in jail for two, years, for having to watch too much video games. Man 3 is charged with the crime of “not watching enough.” Man 4 and Man 5 are charged with the crime of “not paying child support.”
The name of Evey is unknown and he was in jail in July or September 2009 in a town in France that is ruled by a ruling family called de Vaudereur [sic in the French] and known for its military and other military authorities. At least three of his military units were disbanded, the other three arrested while investigating the shooting death of Giorgio Vignelli. One of those officers, General Piaccioli, was killed during a visit as President to Vaudereur and was named by a journalist to be responsible. Vignelli was named Deputy Secretary in the Defense Ministry and would become Director General.[i] He died in February of last year and is buried at the Vaudereur National Cemetery in France. V has had his rights restored since his arrest to protect the freedom of public life. In September 2013 Man 2 was tried in the trial for the murder of Giorgio Vignelli in a police car in Marseille.[i] The case was decided by a European Court of Justice decision and the French Court of Appeal gave a sentence of 90 years imprisonment.[i] An appeal against the sentence was heard in January of 2014 before the National Assembly of France, and it has not been heard since.[i]
“The world’s finest humanist” is a slogan from the movie “La Vaudereur”.[ii]
The French media is in the business of sensationalizing and exploiting human suffering in order to promote their own political agenda at every opportunity. We seek to show that there is nothing intrinsically wrong with their methods. Unfortunately, with each person that is killed it will be very difficult to get rid of the dead. The main problem lies in our own moral and political convictions. There are a great many people under the influence and control of terrorists, but we see them as we do.[iii] Our moral convictions are not limited to the moral of our own society. Our actions are based upon the ideas of others who are in our corner. That is why we stand up for ourselves as humanists.”[iv]
In the movie, V gives the order to destroy the building of Vaudereur, and the buildings go in flames. Man 2’s parents try to save him, but they end up destroying the building completely. Man 1 goes in the water but is later killed by V. As he was waiting for his family to come he remembers all too well the pain and suffering that his family was on, and of course, the pain for him and his family.[v]
The story of Evey is all too true and as he was young and he was an orphan he was tortured and tortured for his own personal entertainment by many people with no respect to any family or society. In France for many generations we still say that every human being needs an escape;