V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta was directed by James McTeigue and starring Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, and Stephan Rea was about the world as a dystopia in the 2030’s. London is run by a dictatorship and everyone has a curfew. Evey goes out after curfew to visit a male friend and is almost raped by authority figures. A mysterious man known as V comes to Evey’s rescue and kills the three men. He then takes her to see him blow up a building.

London’s dictator tries to explain away the incident as a controlled demolition, claiming the building was no longer structurally sound, but V takes over the state television broadcast the same day, exposing the lie. He urges the people of Britain to rise up against the oppressive government and meet him in one year, on 5 November, outside the Houses of Parliament, which he promises to destroy. Evey helps V to escape, but is knocked out in the process.  V takes Evey to his lair where she is kept for a few weeks before escaping from V during one of his “escapades” in which she agreed to help. Evey is captured again and tortured for days for information about V. She finds solace in notes written by another prisoner, an actress who was arrested for being homosexual. Finally, Evey is told that she will be executed immediately unless she reveals V's location. An exhausted but defiant Evey says she would rather die, and is released. Evey discovers that she has been in V's lair all along, and that her imprisonment was staged to free her from her fears.  The notes were real, but they were passed by Valerie to V years earlier when he was similarly imprisoned. Although Evey initially hates V for what he did to her, she realizes she now feels stronger and free in spirit. She leaves him with a promise to return before the 5th of November.

Evey then helps V to blow up the Houses of Parliament on November 5^th. V dies in the process but now London is back to normal.

I give this movie a 10 out of 10

It was a great movie that made one think about virtue and question their own virtue.