The theme and acting is amazing for the story.

Rating: 10/10 (20 September 2014)

Throughout V for Vendetta the main theme of the film is that in this world no matter who you are or where you're from you can have a great impact on the world and need to take what you want and do what you want in this life to live it the way you want to. Hugo Weaving plays V, an anarchist brutalized by the fascist group Norsefire that is controlling the United Kingdom. V wears a Guy Fawkes mask to not only conceal his true identity but also wears it as a metaphor for the aforementioned "anyone can have a great impact" theme. V repeatedly uses explosives, mustard gas, napalm and more to destroy government buildings in an attempt to destroy the dictatorship and bring freedom to the UK. At the beginning of the film, V rescues Evey (Natalie Portman) from several members of the Norsefire police form who were going to rape and kill her. She ends up telling him her entire story about how she lost her whole family to the Norsefire party and ends up becoming a confidant for V, and eventually his successor. Systematically, V hunts down and assassinates people of power that turned him into the person he is in this story and promoted the rise of the Norsefire organization in the UK. As he does he follows a similar plan to the one that Guy Fawkes set out to use in 1605 with the Gunpowder Plot. The plan involves creating a large explosion beneath the parliament building to destroy it as a symbol of power as well as all of the people inside it to "start fresh" with a new anarchist government running the show. Likely the most memorable quote from the film and books is the phrase "Remember, remember, the Fifth of November: the gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot". This rhyme is designed to highlight the fact that history will tend to repeat itself, and tyranny will always be met with resistance; V's delivery of the message makes it all the more epic feeling. The main purpose of V as a character is that he represents the feeling and the idea of a true free world, one that is powered by anarchy and the "do what you want, take what you want" mentality. He's a vehicle for change, which he was quite effective at when his message began to spread throughout the UK. Large groups of citizens end up wearing the Guy Fawkes mask and showing up in political demonstration proposing for the downfall of parliament and the dictatorship. As V moves throughout the list of people who brought the fascist regime into power and did him wrong personally, the lighting and angles on each assassination highlight two things: how sorry the people are, and how angry V is. The lighting around the victim in each death is softer than that around V and it really highlights how we're supposed to perceive each character so many years after their transgressions. In the assassinations, V is barely shown if at all and when he is, he is cloaked in shadow (on top of his already solid black outfit) and symbolically represents the angel of death and vengeance. In the end, V takes what he wants, does what he wants, and uses any means at his disposal to reach the ends he has in mind. He is going to make an impact, try to make a change for the better, and destroy the very thing that created him to do it. Anyone can be a hero (or anti-hero in this case), how you're remembered is the important part.