V for Vendetta (film)

V for Vendetta is a 2006 dystopian political thriller film directed by James McTeigue and written by the The Wachowski Brot hers, based on the 1988 Vertigo Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. The film is set in an alternate future where a neofascist regime has subjugated the United Kingdom. Hugo Weaving portrays V, an anarchist freedom fighter who attempts to ignite a revolution through elaborate terrorist acts and Natalie Portman plays Evey, a workingclass girl caught up in Vs mission, while Stephen Rea portrays the detective leading a desperate quest to stop V.

In the late 2020s the world is in turmoil, with the United States fractured as a result of prolonged conflict and a pandemic of the St. Marys Virus ravaging Europe. The United Kingdom is ruled as a fascist police state by the Norsefire Party. Political opponents, immigrants, muslims, homosexuals and other undesirables are imprisoned in concentration camps. On November 4, a Guy Fawkesmasked vigilante identifying himself as V Hugo Weaving rescues Evey Hammond Natalie Portman, an employee of the staterun British Television Network BTN, from members of the Fingermen secret police while she is out past curfew. From a rooftop, they watch his demolition of the Old Bailey criminal court building, accompanied by fireworks and the 1812 Overture. Inspector Finch Stephen Rea, Scotland Yards Chief of Police, is tasked with investigating Vs activities while BTN declares the incident an emergency demolition. V interrupts the broadcast to claim responsibility and urges the people of Britain to rise up against their government. He asks them to meet him exactly one year later, on November 5, Guy Fawkes Night, outside the Houses of Parliament, which he promises to destroy. During the broadcast, the police attempt to capture V. Evey helps him escape but is knocked unconscious.V takes Evey to his home, where she is told she must remain for one year. After learning V is killing government officials, she offers to help and uses the opportunity to escape to the home of her boss, comedian and talk show host Gordon Deitrich Stephen Fry. In return for Evey trusting him with her safety, Gordon reveals prohibited materials including subversive paintings, an antique Quran, and homoerotic photographs. After Gordon performs a satire of the government on his show, his home is raided and Evey is captured. She is imprisoned and tortured for information about V, with her only solace being a note written by actress Valerie Page Natasha Wightman, who occupies a nearby cell. ........

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