Pretty great

Rating: 10/10 (12 April 2016)

It's the late 2020s and London is ruled by a fascist government. A vigilante known only as V is trying to stop the government from ripping people's freedoms away by using a danger plan involving terrorist attacks and well timed murders. The movie follows Evey, a young woman who plays the key role to V's plan without even knowing. The movie starts with V, the vigilante, jumping down from the rooftops and saving Evey from a group of England's oppressive law enforcement. Afterwards, he inquires that Every come with him to see something he had set up. She reluctantly follows to see that he has blown up a government building and hacked into all of the speakers around the city which he had made to be shouting classical music as the building exploded into the night sky, fireworks streaking through the air. As the movie goes, gets into trouble as he sends a message to the whole town over a government frequency about how they have been censoring everything and stands for and stifling the whole city to ensure their rule. He also comments that in one year of the explosion he will act again, but even bigger and more destructive. The rest of the film follows Evey as she tries to survive on the run as the year passes. This movie focuses a lot around the idea of rights and how the government can control its people. Throughout the movie we see the government use censorship to control how the people act and feel. During V's first terrorist attack he plays classical music. The government bans this music from being played to do this to try and make people forget the event. Another instance in the movie where censorship came into play was near the end when they banned any clothes that looked like V's clothes to try and deter people from helping him or following in his footsteps. This movie is great representation of why civil rights are so important and is in general a really great movie.