V For Vendetta

 Film studies 
V For Vendetta is a film that is set in a dystopia of England, where the countries in the world have been struck with disease and poverty. England is the country that has come out best from this. America has become the world’s biggest leper colony in the world and asks England for money support. But the government in England has become corrupted and a High Chancellor, who has completely taken over the county and does what he wants, now runs the country. He has his own secret police called finger men.  Every civilian is not aloud out his or her house after a certain time of night. If they are caught   they get arrested and interrogated.
 The High Chancellor has passed laws so anything he does not like gets added to a black list and banned and destroyed such as pieces of art work, classical music, some foods and also religious texts like the Bible and the Koran. The Chancellor also has people who are homosexuals and disabled people beaten, arrested and even executed.
In the film the Government are portrayed as Nazi's and the High Chancellor is the equivalent of Hitler in WW2.

The character of 'V' believes the government are controlling the people. He believes that the people should be in control, not be dictated and believes they should get a say in they way the country is run. 'V' puts this message across to the government by a various number of terrorist acts such as, blowing up certain buildings, playing music considered as contraband, attacking members of the party's and hacking in to the national new network to deliver a treating message to the government and the people they have control over.  'V' has a personal vendetta against the majority of the party members in the government, as they locked him up, experimented on his body and others. He was the only one to survive them, but the facility were they experimented on him burned down on the 5th of november, in result of this, his body was covered in burns. This is the reason he covers his face with a mask, but the fact the mask is of Guy Forks face is a statement and a warning to the government saying "free the people or Guy Forks will succeed" this is my personal view on the mask.

The film is rather dark, mysterious, action packed, science fiction thriller. Its set out as if someone is telling the story of 'V's' and 'Evey's' relationship and how it escalates as film seems to revolve around how they grow closer to each other through all the dark things they encounter. Every other male character in the film that helps 'Evey' out seems to be linked in with 'V' in some way with what they do.

The way the film is shot film, you never see any of the characters outside in the day, the only time you see them outside is at night or in rooms. Whenever ‘V’ kills some one the rooms all quite dark and he always lays a rose on them. This adds mystery to the film and always leaves you on the edge of your seat wondering what will happen next.

The underline message of the film is saying that the government should not run peoples life's, people should get a say in whatever happens and not be dictated to as people will rise up against evil and fight for their own rights.