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HUMSS Department (HUMSS A)
Movie Analysis
“V for Vendetta”
By: James McTeigue

I. Introduction
Chaos and anger are the reason of not unified country. Revolution and braveness and power of
people is the key to feel the peace in every hearts and minds of everybody. The truth is our savior and
fight is our army. Truth will set us free. Fight intends us to be brave to depend what is right from wrong.
People should not be afraid of the government, government must be afraid to people.
II. Summary
V for Vendetta is about a man, his quest for revenge and his desire to right the wrongs in
his society. The story takes place in England, in 1997. It is a world changed by war, famine and disease.
In response to these changes, the government also changes. It is a fascist dictatorship, which uses
extensive means to control the people. As a result, the populace slinks into a mode of enforced
contentment, making no effort to take back their freedom.
V rescues a woman, Evey, from a dangerous situation and takes her under his wing. He makes it
clear from the beginning what he is about, but because he speaks in riddles, rhymes and literary
quotations, she does not understand. V is a man always dressed in a costume with a cloak, hat, wig and
mask. He is never seen out of costume. He is a shadowy and mysterious individual. V frequently appears
almost from out of nowhere. He is skilled in martial arts and in stealth. While carrying out his vendetta
against those that have oppressed him in previous years, he is also trying to light a fire underneath
people's feet, in order to push them into action after being inactive for so long. One of the means by
which he does this is by blowing up government buildings.
V's vendetta stems from a period in his life, when he was detained at the Larkhill Resettlement
Camp. While the reasons for his confinement are never revealed, what happens to him is recounted in
great detail. V suffered at the hands of inhuman keepers. By his own devices, he manages to escape the
prison by blowing it up. After that point, he exists to go after those responsible for what happened to him.
Each of those people has since moved on to higher roles in the government, but V still goes after each
one, until he settles the score.
Meanwhile, with Evey in his charge, he does everything he can to educate her and pass along his
message. While in the beginning she does not comprehend everything that V tells her, it all comes
together for her at the end. Even to Evey, V is mysterious and never gives a straight answer. Insistent on
showing Evey how to live free from fear and injustice, he imprisons and tortures her. The whole time, he
is able to keep his identity well hidden from her. At the end of it all, his plan works. She overcomes her
greatest obstacles and learns a great deal from V. After he dies at the end, she takes his place as a
hardened revolutionary determined to spark the people of England into action.

"Remember, remember the fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and plot," a voiceover intones
at the opening of V for Vendetta. "I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be
forgot." The popular British rhyme--which the film generously repeats again less than ten minutes later
for those stuck in the concession line the first time around--refers, of course, to Guy Fawkes's
unsuccessful plot to blow up the British Parliament in 1605. Though Fawkes and his radical Catholic co-
conspirators managed to smuggle eighteen hundred pounds of gunpowder into a cellar beneath
Parliament, they were caught before bringing their plan to fruition, and were subsequently tried and
executed. Guy Fawkes Day and its attendant conventions--the grinning Fawkes masks, the burning in
effigy of a Fawkes dummy--are celebrations not of the plot, but of its failure. (Indeed, subsequent verses
of the "Fifth of November" include some choice words for the Pope.)

III. Reflection
The story really touches my heart because of its mysterious and so unrevealing twist which amused
me. I can relate this kind of story in the leadership of Ex-President Ferdinand Marcos which is he is so
rude to all his people. He want unity but his ways of binding unity is by killing people and no mercy at
all. He is intelligent but he don’t feel his people suffering from his arms. The movie clearly stated that at
first Vendetta seems to be the antagonist but when the story is beginning to hot we can preview all that at
first Vendetta is the real protagonist in the story. It also relate to our society today because of some
rumors that Ex-president Ferdinand Marcos is not a bad President at all and some says that he is a bad
person and a bad leader of the country but until now even though his term is ended some people says that
he is good and there is a thing that really and possibly the reason of proclaiming democratic country of
the Philippines and that is he is not a good leader. He deserves to be not in that position. He is a bad
human being. In the movie, don’t really don’t know what is behind the explosions and chaos but they are
just understanding the situation which remains them to under Vendetta and in that case people are right on
what they choose because they see their country suffering from the hand or their President’s
administration.

Prepared by:
Jezza O. Bagui
Grade 12- St. Jonas