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This film, V for Vendetta, has been on Sky a lot recently, averaging 1 -2 times a week. The film, starring Hugo Weaving and Natalie Portman, was due out in 2005, but was postponed following the 7/7 Tube Bombings. Originally an Alan Moore comic about a Britain that sees Michael Foot's Labour storm to victory in the early 1980s and then disarm the country's nucelar weapons and withdraw from NATO. The subsquent nuclear war between the USA and USSR sees Britain poor, deprived and isolated - but unscathed. Allowing a far-right fascist British nationalist movement, Norse Fire ('NF', Moore's reference to the National Front) to take control. The film version, having been made 20 years after the supposed nuclear war, sees a world destroyed by terrorism, biological and chemical weapons and food and fuel shortages, allowing a similar far-right movement to take control and create a totalitarian Britain.

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Some parts give me chills, and it has a creepily relevant feel to it - providing a modern critique of who we are at the minute, and what direction this country might be heading in.

V's Address. Occurs on November 5th and, having seized temporary control of the state media, addresses the nation, urging the ordinary citizens and members of the public to rebel.


V's Finale. A year later, V's coffin, on board a train in the now closed Undergound, blows up the Houses of Parliament - now a symbol of British totalitarianism.

Alex McKee

Coincidentally I just got back from watching it with some of my girlfriend's family. An excellent film, even though it's not really worth anything as a serious look at society or fascism.

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BonnieDundee

Apparently the film removed the anarchist symbolism of the original story which is a shame.

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SuperiorSteve

I like V for Vendetta, great film. The way the people just let the politicians get on with doing whatever they like while they just watch tv is quite similar to the situation today.

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