V for Vendetta (2007)

V for Vendetta

This review is going to be about the movie V for Vendetta. A movie which is even used in political campaigns like Ron Paul's although it is an action movie. I have found so many symbols throughout this movie, new and old ones from movies before.

Symbolism

Symbolism is especially in this movie a great factor. I found very many symbold copied from old movies like the shower scene from Psycho and the bells from the Graduate. But there were new symbols aswell. The biggest one is probably the letter "V". It represents the name of the character with the guy fawkes mask, the number 5 in latin numbers, and the letter V. You are going to see things in context with V throughout the entire movie.

Like in the movie "Psycho" by Alfred Hitchcock, V is killing someone in a shower.

Story

The movie is about a character called V, who is an anarchist and wants to make a political revolution because the government is corrupt. His goal is to kill everybody in the government and free the citizens from the fascistic party norsefire. He saved a young women Evey from a gang of secret police officers, who wanted to rape her. Shortly later V takes Evey to a roof and detonates a bomb in the British Parliament. In response of that Eric Finch, the head of the nose (the police of norsefire), had the task to stop V from bombing political important buildings.V was planning his big attack on the governmant on the fifth of novmber, remember fifth=V. He started this day with an epic domino stone scene, which symbloizes if one of them falls everythning will collapse.

Domino Scene on Nov,5

Positive Points:
+Lots of Symbolism
+Great Plot
+Lots of recognition (Guy Fawks)

Negative Points:
-Bad Soundtracks
-Could use more special effects
Movie Rating:91/100

Fun Ration:86%


sources: www.wikipedia.com