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ale_23 @ 2010-02-18T19: 04:00




Yesterday i watched it on tv and i loved it ;)

For who doesn't know yet the story :

V for Vendetta is a ten-issue comic-book series written by Alan Moore and illustrated mostly by David Lloyd, set in a dystopian future United Kingdom imagined from the 1980s about the 1990s. A mysterious revolutionary who calls himself " V " works to destroy the totalitarian government, profoundly affecting the people he encounters.

The series depicts a near-future Britain after a limited nuclear war, which has left much of the world destroyed. In this future, a fascist party called "Norsefire" has arisen as the ruling power. "V", an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, begins an elaborate, violent, and theatrical campaign to bring down the government. Warner Bros. released a film adaptation in 2006.

There are numerous references throughout V for Vendetta to the number 5 and letter V, which itself represents "5" in Roman numerals:

• The story begins on the 5th of November
• The title of each chapter begins with the letter V.
• The character V is seen reading and quoting from Thomas Pynchon's novel, V .
• Beethoven's fifth symphony is used by V and noted for the prominent use of three short notes and one long, which is the Morse Code identifier for the letter V (the BBC used this code as a call sign during World War II, most famously in the sense of "V for Victory").
• The series identifies V as the prisoner from Room V at Larkhill Internment Camp.
• The access to V's hideout goes from the closed Victoria tube station, the damaged sign of which resembles a sideways V when Finch locates it.
• V's personal motto consists of the Latin phrase Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici (By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe) - five words that begin with the letter "v". V identifies the origin of the phrase as Faust .
• Guy Fawkes Night happens on 5 November.
• The government consists of five branches, associated with the five senses.
• At Larkhill, V is injected with Batch "5".
• V's last word, at the end of the series, starts with a V.
• Much of V's dialogue uses iambic pentameters (verse with five stressed syllables per line).
• When Finch takes LSD and tries to replicate V's experience at Larkhill, he has an epiphany and runs from the camp. As he revels in his new found "freedom", he thinks

  Vaulting , veering , vomiting up the values that victimized me. Feeling vast . Feeling virginal ... Was this how he felt? this verve , this vitality ... this vision .

  He then concludes with the French terms "La Voie " (the way), "La Vérité " (the truth), and "La Vie "(the life). His French pronunciation of last term sounds like the name "V", and as he says it he stands with his arms up in the shape of the letter "V".

This film make me think about revenge, i don't know why but i think that everyone have to see this movie once..

AND..That's All ;D
I just wanted to say my opinion. ^____^