Can someone explain V for Vandetta?

Question

I watched the movie but i dont get it

Answer 1

V stands for 2 things in this movie:-
1) The Roman numeral 5 which was his cell number in the experiment to create the virus
2) His vendetta against a sitting government that used him as a guinea pig to create a virus that helped to quell the masses and bring everyone under the government's thumb.
His goal was to light a fire under the masses and have them realize what they had sacrificed in the name of security and they had the power to take their country back.
He exposed to them that in giving up their liberties for security, they ended up with neither. They lived in a totalitarian society in which everything they thought, watched, read was dictated to them by the government. They were not allowed to watch movies, read books, go to museums. If they had independent thought which was contrary to the party line, they would disappear as "enemies to the society".
It showed in no uncertain terms how religion, in terms of faith, was used as a weapon against the people. It kind of resembles a path that is currently being followed in the name of "security" and to protect you from the terrorists by.........

Answer 2

A vendetta is a revenge. The main character V was the product of an illegal government experiment to either turn him into some killing machine or cure some disease (I forget which one- it doesn't matter). The point is the government is behind this and he's pissed. The government is also a totalitarian regime with some big brother type at the helm. So V gets his revenge and saves the pop from an intrusive government which promotes its own selfish agenda over the good of the people it was created to protect. hmmm, you know that sounds alot like . . . ;-)

Answer 3

Have you seen the part where Vendetta use the television network to spread the word?

V wanted to tell the whole England that should be liberal from the government control (who capture those Muslims, homosexuals, and also terrorists as well as those who defy against government).

So V wanted to remind everyone that 5th Nov is the independence day and freedom by blowing up the government HQ

Answer 4

Government wanted to control it's people so they put a virus into the water that killed a bunch of there own people, then blamed it on terrorist. They did this so that they could come back with a cure and make every think they where great.

V was one of the test subjects that the government used while trying to create the virus. He escaped the place he was being held then goes around destroying different government symbols in an attempt to get the attention of the regular people and then teach them to rise against the government.

Answer 5

hey guy do not call him an fool, he likes Queen! And on the priority of the question, the main character is a mad guy who has been experimented on by using a destiny fascist government of super Britain and is out for revenge on the ruling occasion of suggested government. i think of hes meant to be slightly mysterious as a manner to make his motivations doubtful. Is he a freedom fighter or a murderous psycho no diverse to the occasion's contributors?

Answer 6

The film deals with multiple issues. It centers around a totalitarian regime which has gained power in England by staging a mass viral outbreak, which it later "cured" after being voted into power, and is maintained through various means of media deception, surviellance, and secret police. The character V, we never know who he really was, was used as an unwilling test subject for a government experiment looking for the new virus to be used against the population. Out of 36 or so test subjects, V was the only one who did not die from the virus. In fact he developed changes physically, mentally, and spiritually. He lost his memory and developed superhuman strength and mental acuity. He escaped from the test facilty and was horribly burned and disfigured in the process, presumably he also no longer felt pain. He subsequently vanished into the London underground where he built a world around himself devoted to a single purpose: the destruction of the government that created him. He adopted the persona of Guy Fawkes who was real person. In 1604 Fawkes attempted to blow up the English Parliament with massive amounts of explosives he and his co-conspirators had placed in the sub-basement. Fawkes was ultimately betrayed by one of his co-conspirators and was executed. V wears a costume and mask of Fawkes to hide his scarred face.

V is basically a freedom fighter who has planned for several years to do what Fawkes never did, blow up Parliament as a symbolic act of revolution. He takes on Evey first to protect her from the governement and then to teach her as his successor. From there the film deals with lots of issues which can at times be confusing. Things like free speech, the principles of freedom itself, religious idolatry, homosexuality, abusive and corrupt governments, and so on. Many think, as do I, that it's more of a commentary on modern issues like the war in Iraq, 911, and the Bush administration in general. The film differs so greatly from the graphic novel it's based on that the creator of the novel walked out in disgust saying he never intended for his work to be used as a political statement.

Answer 7

Well it was one man trying to change London from a somewhat Communism to a free country and he had to destroy the government to achieve what he wanted and ended up dying for it.

Answer 8

Its like 1984, but with a happy ending.

Answer 9

You know, I didn't get it either...something about V trying to get revenge on the people that did experiments on him when he was institutionalized. I think he was trying to get revenge on the whole system and what it stood for...

Answer 10

People decided that they didn't want to live under a totalitarian regime any more.