We will never see its likes again.

Rating: 10/10 (4 April 2006)

The film "V for Vendetta" is based upon the same-titled comic book written referring to a real-life event: the assassination of one of the most honorable English protesters of his time Guy Fawkes, who sacrificed his life in the name of peace and human dignity. Remembering the persecution of the Church during the English assent to it's new liberalism with the manifestation of Parlement and to the excesses of Throne at the time.
A very political film since it demands the audience place themselves not in the Edward Gibbon ("Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire") Senatorial mindset but one of the world - and in this case the futuristic English society - drone Babbits in the guise of Natalie Portman's character.
In a time when political discussion is forbidden in the workplace, in religion (outside rubber stamping each and every authority), in entertainment (again outside bitchy comments on SNL or Comedy Central)it was probably too much to hope the general public would - or even could - assimilate this motion picture.
Each segment has a reference to today's political, economic and social hierarchy - and would in a fair world would be picked apart by high school teachers like they do other populist entertainment.
But it is not useful to any cause that is currently embraced by the social order so that's not likely. -- We'll have to wait until there is yet another challenge to the status quo in twenty years for the film to suddenly be discovered for use as a battering ram against "convention" as was done in 1960s with "King of Hearts" and later with "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest".
But I'm patient - in time it will be enthroned as a poster child for another generation that it missed in ours.