V For Vendetta
Ideas Live Forever
By: Milo Harrison
The film “V for Vendetta” directed by James McTeigue and the story “V for Vendetta” written by Alan Moore, is about a shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" who, along with his companion Evey Hammond, completes V’s vendetta of blowing up parliament and removing a repressive governments control on the people. In “V for Vendetta” V fights for an idea. The idea that V fights for compels him to take action and fight against a corrupt government without concern for his own safety. He does this because “ideas are bulletproof”. He may die and be stopped but the idea which he fought for cannot be silenced. What “V for Vendetta” has to teach us is that ideas are very powerful and live beyond the death of …show more content…
His wide range of vocabulary and convincing speeches that were broadcasted nationwide win the hearts of the people of London, making them re-think their current situation and how different life would be without the government dictating everything they can and cannot do. His quote “Words will always retain their power” illustrates to us how the media is an influential tool of social and political control. The biased media uses this to their advantage labeling V as a “psychotic terrorist” when he breaks into BTN (the television network). We can learn from this that some events that are put in the media are not the full truth of what is going on. We believe what the news presenters are saying on the television because they work for the government and the government should only report the real events from true stories. Instead BTN uses this to their advantage and edits news stories to reflect their point of view. The government uses the media to convey the message and to trick the community into thinking that life is so much better with the government in control. However during his speeches V gives the people of London hope and shows them just how much better life would be outside of the government’s control. Through these speeches V shows us how an idea of hope and a better future for everyone rises up against the brute force of the government and is the ultimate turning point in convincing the citizens to support him over the
By: Milo Harrison
The film “V for Vendetta” directed by James McTeigue and the story “V for Vendetta” written by Alan Moore, is about a shadowy freedom fighter known only as "V" who, along with his companion Evey Hammond, completes V’s vendetta of blowing up parliament and removing a repressive governments control on the people. In “V for Vendetta” V fights for an idea. The idea that V fights for compels him to take action and fight against a corrupt government without concern for his own safety. He does this because “ideas are bulletproof”. He may die and be stopped but the idea which he fought for cannot be silenced. What “V for Vendetta” has to teach us is that ideas are very powerful and live beyond the death of …show more content…
His wide range of vocabulary and convincing speeches that were broadcasted nationwide win the hearts of the people of London, making them re-think their current situation and how different life would be without the government dictating everything they can and cannot do. His quote “Words will always retain their power” illustrates to us how the media is an influential tool of social and political control. The biased media uses this to their advantage labeling V as a “psychotic terrorist” when he breaks into BTN (the television network). We can learn from this that some events that are put in the media are not the full truth of what is going on. We believe what the news presenters are saying on the television because they work for the government and the government should only report the real events from true stories. Instead BTN uses this to their advantage and edits news stories to reflect their point of view. The government uses the media to convey the message and to trick the community into thinking that life is so much better with the government in control. However during his speeches V gives the people of London hope and shows them just how much better life would be outside of the government’s control. Through these speeches V shows us how an idea of hope and a better future for everyone rises up against the brute force of the government and is the ultimate turning point in convincing the citizens to support him over the