Political and dramatic yet very unique

Rating: 9/10 (1 August 2006)

This movie is what I would refer to as a sneak and peak into the future. Why? Take a look at the world today. Our privileges are being slowly but surely cut off. This means that in a not so distant future we will discover that this movie is telling us the truth. I find this movie entertaining and very interesting because I ask my self the very question that has haunted my mind since the first time I saw it. Is V really a terrorist or a freedom fighter? Is this what the future will bring us? Some people would probably find this movie as a typical hero movie where the good guy is fighting the bad guys. I say that these people fail to se where V for Vendetta kicks in. This movie is not what you see in an everyday motion picture where the hero is just a hero. Even though V is wearing a Fawkes mask he is not just a hero. Let's discuss that for a minute. Why is he wearing a Fawkes mask? The Fawkes mask is a symbolical thread and V chooses to wear this mask to remind the people what he is fighting for. The same things Guy Fawkes fought for. Freedom and a better future. Maybe I'm wrong but it occurs to me that V has simply forgotten who he is. He knows what he is fighting for but he has maybe chosen to forget who he was. As you very well know V had his face burned off in the explosion where he was kept as a prisoner. That's a symbol too because his face tells us who he is. V is certainly not an ordinary man anymore but more like a rebel just like Guy Fawkes. V knows what happened the 5. Of November 1606 and he is fighting for the same things. He doesn't just want to blow up the Parliament but he is trying to remind the people of what they have become and what they have forgotten. Remember, remember the 5. Of November The gunpowder treason and plot I know of no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot When we hear this little song from V we know what is about to happen. He prevails where others have failed.