Both Evey and V have dark pasts that unveil terrible secrets about the evolution of England into the story’s situation, and V, inspired of the figure of Guy Fawkes, is that hero with a plan so well calculated it can’t wrong. The details of the plan aren’t the important part of V’s mission, but the careful, radical way he carries it.

The terrorist / freedom fighter action continues during the following year, until the day of the “striking blow” comes. Through an intricate plan elaborated almostas if it were an inside job, V interrupts the exhbition of the BTN’s programation and sends a message to the English people: one year from then, a new England would rise against the oppression and the government as they knew it would be no more. He takes her with him to a rooftop to watch his explosion of the Old Bailey. She is rescued by a masked man who answers by the name of V. In the night of the 5th of November, Evey goes out past curfew and is caught by fingermen, members of the secret police, who attempt to abuse her.

There’s an ironic situation here, as Hurt played Winston Smith in the film version of George Orwell’s 1984, this time the one oppressed by the dictatorial power of the Big Brother. If in 1999, the Wachowski Brothers brought us a picture with groundbreaking special effects that turned the audience’s heads upside down and made them question their own existence with its notorious philosophical baggage, V for Vendetta goes political, and everyone started asking the same questions again, making V’s mask the most common profile picture of all social networks.īased on a graphic novel by Alan Moore, it tell the story of a futuristic totalitarian England from the point of view of Evey Hammond (Natalie Portman), a woman who works at the state-run British Television Network, the one and only channel allowed to run under the supremacy of the high chancellor Adam Sutler, played by John Hurt. Plus, Hugo Weaving’s the protagonist know. It all starts when V, the main character, has to choose between the red pill and the blue pill… Wait, that’s not The Matrix, the good guy’s name is Neo in The Matrix. Amidst of bullet time, shots, explosions and killer phrases, our hero strives throughout this story written to the screen by the Wachowski Brothers to change the world as he knows it. A mysterious man rises against opression alongside the love of his life. A world controlled in each and every way, where surveillance and imprisonment prevail.

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