Was he a terrorist or a freedom fighter? What's the difference?
2006-08-28 06:14:50 · 14 answers · asked by truthyness 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
thejenjens: well, yes, he absolutely hurt people 'on purpose' -- if you count Prothero, Creedy, and the Chancellor. All premeditated attacks.
2006-09-01 04:42:59 · update #1
TheDaveness: Is having support of the people the definition of a freedom fighter? Don't a lot of people we think of as terrorists have public support, like OBL? Cab drivers have pictures of him on the dash.
2006-09-01 04:45:52 · update #2
medic8613: The police he killed in the beginning -- were their orders to rape Evey, as they were planning to do? I think that scene set the tone as to the morality and abuse of power the police practiced. So one could argue that they were not entirely innocent. Nor were the ones who were at the side of Creedy in the end. (That would be akin to calling Hitler's bodyguards 'innocent.')
The first building he blew up was probably empty since it was late at night. (My opinion.) But I've watched it twice, and have yet produce the death of an innocent person in the film. Everyone V killed (Prothero, Creedy, Chancellor, cops, the Coroner) were guilty of mass murder (80,000), torture or attempted rape.
2006-09-01 04:54:38 · update #3
It depends on your point of view. He was fighting against a tyrannical government that killed innocent people for no reason. He was pretty much fighting against a modern day Hitler. So in my point of view he was a good guy that was a little bit crazy.
2006-08-28 06:30:46 · answer #1 · answered by ANDREW L 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
One man's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. V had good intentions but took radical steps. The society depicted in the movie had many bad aspects, but also some good ones. V used terrorist tatics. The police he killed were just doing a job and following orders, and there is no way the buildings he bombed had no people in them.
The truth is, when violence is used against civilians there is no difference between a terrorist and a freedom fighter except why they are doing what they do.
2006-08-30 12:09:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the people in the movie were so oppressed that they didn't have butter why did they have plasma screen tv's and GAP clothing?
This movie was one of the silliest and least thought out pieces of political commentary I've ever seen.
The people who like this movie are incapable of seeing the lack of subtext that it presents. Its a decengt action movie, but nothing much more than that.
Under the pretense the movie suggests, even Tim McVeigh, who blew up that American building in Oklahoma City was a "good guy freedom fighter" because he believed he was fighting against a corrupt government.
Is that a hero? I think not.
2006-08-28 07:29:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
He was a good guy. I would consider him a freedom fighter in the sense that he wanted to help bring the citizens up from under a nasty regime. If he was a terrorist, he would have blown things up just for the hell of it.
2006-08-28 06:22:03 · answer #4 · answered by devoid_of_love 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm gonna go with good guy. A little messed up in the head, sure maybe, but being tortured in prison will do that to ya.
And to agree with that other person, he did blow up buildings, but for all we know they were empty and he didn't hurt people. I didn't read the comic, but maybe I'd be able to answer better if I did.
And I'm oddly OK with killing for revenge or business. I watch a lot of mobster movies...
2006-08-29 13:55:59 · answer #5 · answered by kermit 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess that would depend on which side of the government you are on. I would have to say freedom fighter, because in the end he had the support of the people.
Good movie though.
2006-08-28 06:22:43 · answer #6 · answered by TheDaveness 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this answer is in the eyes of the beholder
I mean
here... a quote
"one persons terrorist is anothers freedom fighter"
2006-08-30 08:32:30 · answer #7 · answered by fiyera 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bad AND Good,beacuse he didnt really do much to make all that happen,everyone decided on their own,and he just wanted to prove his point...which he did...but i would go with good guy,because he did protect that one girl and showed her the value of freedom and living
2006-08-28 06:27:17 · answer #8 · answered by alexis g. 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I didn't see the movie, but I do know he was British.
All British guys in movies are villains.
The head bad guy in "Die Hard" was British. Hannibal Lecter was British. And all the bad guys in the "Harry Potter" movies are British.
Therefore, V from Vendetta (is that a suburb of London?) is a bad guy.
2006-08-28 06:24:16 · answer #9 · answered by got_da_scoop 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
he was a terrorist who blew up buildings for freedom in his country and to get back at those who hurt him
2006-08-28 06:21:30 · answer #10 · answered by rockhead631 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋