V is for Revolution
Movie review for “V for Vendetta”
By Hector Gonzalez

“ Beneath this mask there is more then flesh. There is an idea. Mr. Creedy, and idea are bullet proof.”

  I just caught the film V for Vendetta ; originally a comic created by Alan Moore (Famous for the comic Swamp Things ) and David Llyod, in 1981; and published in the British comic magazine Warrior , then later re-published by DC Comics in 1988.

I must admit before watching the movie last night, I knew nothing about V for Vendetta. It was before my generation in terms of comics, but after watching the movie I find, that “V”   (Played by Hugo Weaving) is perhaps one of our most important “Super-Hero's” who's story most be told, and who people have to believe in because he's perhaps the closest thing we have to a real life “super-hero.” That is, if you would even want to call “V” a super-hero, because to some he's a terrorist.

The year is 2020 and Britain's current political power resembles the Nazi Germany. Meanwhile, the United States is in Civil War and still at war with the Middle East. The film has countless political takes on media, homophobia, terrorism, and Islam. Perhaps the most bold comment was the “Saint Mary Virus attack,” a terrorist virus released onto a school taking the lives of many children, that was suggested to be the product of the government to stir-up fear amongst it's citizen resulting in making a pharmaceutical scientist incredibly rich, a comparison very much like how some people suggest that the U.S government was behind the September 11 th terrorist attacks in order to profit from oil.

The main character,“V”, although he is made out of flesh and blood, also represents an idea -- a perspective and not just any perspective, but one that applies very heavily to our current state of global politics. “V” believed that the leaders of the totalitarian society he belonged to should be killed because that was justice, and that people shouldn't fear their governments, rather, governments should fear their people.

“V” wears the mask of Guy Fawkes, a member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a   group of Catholics who attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament and kill James I, the King of England, to protest the corrupt Protestant rule. The British people still commemorate this day, but it is unclear whether they celebrate the courage of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot or if they celebrate the capture and the failure of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot. Through out the movie “V” repeats “Remember, remember, the fifth of November, The gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.”

Aside from it's Revolutionary propaganda, and what seemed like a message for the viewer to up rise and revolt, V for Vendetta is definitely a must watch. The film did have some what of a drag during the later half of the movie, but regardless, the plot was great and entertaining to watch whether the viewer knew anything about the comic or not.

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