V for Vendetta (Full Screen Edition)
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Actor: Hugo Weaving, John Hurt, Natalie Portman, Stephen Fry, Stephen ReaBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 132 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-01
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of V for Vendetta (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Summary: 5 Stars
This story is set in London, where an evil chancellor is head of an oppressive government that rounds up anyone that is different, and uses them as guinea pigs for their biological warfare experiments. There is a fire, and the resettlement camp burns to the ground. One inmate survives, our hero V, who appears to have taken his name from his cell door, which bears the Roman numeral for five, which is "V". He now has a vendetta to kill all the high ranking officials that orchestrated the prison and the experiments on the inmates.
The government does create a biological weapon from the program, but instead of using it on the enemy they unleash it on their own citizens to create panic, so that they can have more laws and enforcers.
Due to the fire, V is horribly scared, and dons a Guy Fawkes costume including mask, wig and cape. It's creepy but powerful. Guy Fawkes was also a revolutionary who tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up parliament. Guy Fawkes day, November 5th, is a theme throughout the movie.
V meets our heroine, Evey when he saves her from an evil curfew enforcer. Her life is never the same.
He hijacks a TV station, and gives one of the most moving speeches I've ever heard. His theme is the government should be afraid of it's people, the people shouldn't be afraid of the government. He succeeds in blowing up a building and killing everyone on his list. The government then makes up stories to cover up his actions. He does some really bad things, even to Evey. But in the end, he has an impact on the whole country, as they finally stand up in mass against the government.
It is an excellent and powerful movie that reminds us that we must fight to keep our freedoms because the government does not always have our best interest in mind, and what they tell us isn't always the truth.
Summary of V for Vendetta (Full Screen Edition)
Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked man (Hugo Weaving) known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he urges his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about V's mysterious background, she also discovers the truth about herself - and emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plan to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption."Remember, remember the fifth of November," for on this day, in 2020, the minds of the masses shall be set free. So says code-name V (Hugo Weaving), a man on a mission to shake society out of its blank complacent stares in the film V for Vendetta. His tactics, however, are a bit revolutionary, to say the least. The world in which V lives is very similar to Orwell's totalitarian dystopia in 1984: after years of various wars, England is now under "big brother" Chancellor Adam Sutler (played by John Hurt, who played Winston Smith in the movie 1984), whose party uses force and fear to run the nation. After they gained power, minorities and political dissenters were rounded up and removed; artistic and unacceptable religious works were confiscated. Cameras and microphones are littered throughout the land, and the people are perpetually sedated through the governmentally controlled media. Taking inspiration from Guy Fawkes, the 17th century co-conspirator of a failed attempt to blow up Parliament on November 5, 1605, V dons a Fawkes mask and costume and sets off to wake the masses by destroying the symbols of their oppressors, literally and figuratively. At the beginning of his vendetta, V rescues Evey (Natalie Portman) from a group of police officers and has her live with him in his underworld lair. It is through their relationship where we learn how V became V, the extremities of the party's corruption, the problems of an oppressive government, V's revenge plot, and his philosophy on how to induce change.
Based on the popular graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta's screenplay was written by the Wachowski brothers (of The Matrix fame) and directed by their protégé, James McTeigue. Controversy and criticism followed the film since its inception, from the hyper-stylized use of anarchistic terrorism to overthrow a corrupt government and the blatant jabs at the current U.S. political arena, to graphic novel fans complaining about the reconstruction of Alan Moore's original vision (Moore himself has dismissed the film). Many are valid critiques and opinions, but there's no hiding the message the film is trying to express: Radical and drastic events often need to occur in order to shake people out of their state of indifference in order to bring about real change. Unfortunately, the movie only offers a means with no ends, and those looking for answers may find the film stylish, but a bit empty. --Rob Bracco
Beyond Vendetta
 The graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd |  More by Alan Moore |  From Graphic Novel to Big Screen |
 More by Natalie Portman |  More by Hugo Weaving |  More by the Wachowski Brothers |
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