full explanation of V for Vendetta?

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I watched V for Vendetta a couple weeks ago, and I did not fully understand the movie. About the viruses at St. Mary's, Lockwood, etc. Was it the government guy that put it there? What about the lady he killed that night with the journal? Was she trying to help the people, or actually giving the viruses to them? Can someone please explain to me what that was all about? thank you!

Answer 1

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The facility at Larkhill was put there before Adam Sutler came to power, although, I think we are to understand that he did have something to do with it.
The facility was filled with the dissidents of the time and they became test subjects for the St. Mary's virus as the government worked to refine the virus and at the same time worked on a cure. The virus was part of a government conspiracy plot to start the country on the path towards destruction...the country would *attack itself* - by releasing the virus at a school, a water supply source and a park. The country would dissolve into fear and panic and in the midst of it all, Adam Sutler- a political ladder climber, in the running for office, would promise to bring the people and the country back to order, and find a cure for the virus. Coincidentally, right after the creation of the office of High Chancellor-a cure was miraculously found.
The woman he gave the poison to in the middle of the night in her bedroom was Dr. Delia Surridge. Before she changed her identity, she was a doctor at Larkhill. She injected the prisoners with the ever-changing versions of the virus to watch the effects it had on them.
Dr. Surridge believed that what she was doing was for the good of her country..I think that at the time, she had no idea what would happen..when the facility was destroyed and she was able to look at the outcome of her work, she realized what she had done was contribute to the country's destruction.
Basically, this whole part of the plot is analogous to WWII and the concentration camps of the Nazis. Dr. Surridge can be seen as *a version* of Dr. Josef Mengele; who experimented medically on the prisoners who were brought to Auschwitz.

Answer 2

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full explanation of V for Vendetta?
I watched V for Vendetta a couple weeks ago, and I did not fully understand the movie. About the viruses at St. Mary's, Lockwood, etc. Was it the government guy that put it there? What about the lady he killed that night with the journal? Was she trying to help the people, or actually giving...

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There is a very detailed explanation of the movie before my answer but if you don't feel like reading the whole thing...

The country was in chaos and Norsefire (political party) wanted to win the election however they needed a push.
The original goal at Larkhill was to develop a virus to use on enemies however, Mr. Creedy suggested that it be instead used on their own people in order to gain power.
Norsefire won by a landslide.
The woman thought she was actually doing good.
She had no idea what was actually going to happen.

Answer 6

I m trying not to be overly uptight about the parallel made between Surridge (fictional) and Mengele (real) but it is extremely misleading about Mengele s attitude. It would be ok to say that they both violated the hippocratic oath with unethical experimentation but Mengele s experiments were widely described as useless pseudoscience, not some cure for some comic book disease. I have never heard or read of any account about Mengele expressing any regret while he evaded justice. Surridge is portrayed as someone that was caught up in the system doing the wrong things with good intentions, Mengele actively participated in the very real cruelty of the concentration camp with horrible actions and even worse intentions. I highly doubt the parallel was meant to exonerate or soften Mengele s image but those are the issues I saw with that comparison

Answer 7

The government was trying to control the people. In order to fully control, and have the guy get the votes to pretty much rule them all, he created the virus in Lockwood, and said it was all in quaratine, when in reality, they were doing testing, and other horibble tortures. The lady with the journal, at first thought she was helping, but realized after a while that she was really helping to experiment with human life.

Answer 8

I answered a similar question like this a few weeks ago, but really, the Wikipedia entry about it is quite exhaustive and should have all the information you want:
About the Film:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta_(film)
About the Book the film is based on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_for_Vendetta

PS. You might consider getting the book it's based on, it may be easier to follow than the movie (harder to rewind the movie than to flip a few pages back in the book).

Answer 9

teh government put the virus in st mary's and three waters. and the girl the he killed was the lead doctor who engineered the virus. she was the one who discovered it. but she didn't know at first what they were going to do with it. V was different . they used his blood to make the virus. thats one of the reasons he was so angry.

basically the movie was about a girl falling in love with a revolutionary. good movie.

Answer 10

the lady with the journal was another doctor in the reasearch lab that subjected him and many others to their experaments. she was not helping them even though she knew what she was doing was wrong. she is a tragic hero in the end. she does what she can to set right the wrongs she had done and in the end it did not matter because V had to be fair and kill all the people who did wrongs against them.