V for Vendetta

Well, well, well…I HAD to go see V for Vendetta and as movies and thematic concepts go, I thought it was wonderful!!!!!!!!!!! I'm late to the game when it comes to the work of Alan Moore but after I got hooked on his graphic novel "From Hell", I figured there was no way I could miss out on the movie adaptation of another of his pieces. Although the mask is kind of creepy, it's a Guy Fawkes mask and fits integrally into the theme of the movie.

V is what the government would call a terrorist although he thinks of himself as a liberator. V opposes the totalitarian government of a futuristic England that sabotages its citizens, swiping them from their homes and testing them in the name of nuclear weaponry. Disfigured and having lost his true identity he takes on the role of the Everyman. A person who seeks to reclaim the dignity and hope that all of England's citizens seem to have lost. He happens upon Evey, an adult orphan whose parents were killed opposing the government and the two of them fight the regime by striking down those in the highest positions of power.

Of course, V has a contradictory trait of leaving roses on the bodies of his victims. A symbol of deadly love, maybe?

Anyways the movie mimics our current world governments to a tee. Maybe that's why the movie resonated with me in such a strong way. Check it out man!