Deception, Lies, and a hint of Vendetta

Rating: 10/10 (17 March 2006)

Set in a post-mass-terrorist-attack Britain, this incredibly adapted screenplay ushers the viewer into a world of tyranny, oppression, and persecution. After a terrorist attack that claimed the lives of 80,000 Britons in response to a continued assistance with an American war, Britain is now a police state. At the head of this new government, is the High Chancellor, a fascist, symbol-oriented and power driven man bent on total control. Enter Evy, a young, but scared woman, whose parents and brother were arrested and killed as a result of the dictatorship. She is on the way to visit one of the TV show hosts of the network she works for. Unfortunately for her, she is out past mandatory curfew. She is attacked by two men with the intentions of either raping and/or killing her. She threatens to pepper spray them; their response of which was that they are officers in the secret police, and that her action was a capital offense. They then move to have their way with her, when a harlequin-masked figure steps in to stop them. After defeating the men in hand-to-hand combat, this figure turns to Evy. Still frightened by the attack on her by the police, and now just witnessing this new figure's power, she asks him for his name. After a continuing consonance with the letter V, he reveals his name...V. In one of the most awe-inspiring films, the viewer is taken into the background of a marauder, into the workings of a tyrannical government, and into their own beliefs and values. Basically beginning and ending with a powerful rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, the story will grab a hold of you and not let go until long after the viewing. Considering that the work for the basis of the movie was written, not in the post 9/11 era, but in Thatcherian England, the movie resonates with today's society as much as it did then. We must all take their message to heart and understand what is best for our nation. And as always....Remember, Remember the Fifth of November. GO SEE THIS MOVIE