V for Vendetta Options

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Well, I will say this. Amazing, if you have not seen this movie you need too.

Set against the futuristic landscape of totalitarian Britain, V For Vendetta tells the story of a mild-mannered young woman named Evey (Natalie Portman) who is rescued from a life-and-death situation by a masked vigilante known only as "V." Incomparably charismatic and ferociously skilled in the art of combat and deception, V ignites a revolution when he detonates two London landmarks and takes over the government-controlled airwaves, urging his fellow citizens to rise up against tyranny and oppression. As Evey uncovers the truth about V's mysterious background, she also discovers the truth about herself - and emerges as his unlikely ally in the culmination of his plot to bring freedom and justice back to a society fraught with cruelty and corruption.

The best part I have to say, is when he fights with those fellows in the train station and he kills Creedy with his hands.

Creedy: All you have is your knives and your fancy karate tricks. We have guns.

V: No, what you have is bullets and the hope that when your gun runs out of them I won't be standing, because if I am, you'll all be dead before you have a chance to reload.

V: Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. There is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof.

The best quote is
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

V for Vendetta tells the story of Evey, a young woman who is caught after curfew by members of the secret police, known as "fingermen." The fingermen are obviously about to rape Evey when a man dressed in black, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask and carrying a set of daggers, intervenes by beating and/or killing the secret police officers. After introducing himself to Evey, he takes her to a London rooftop from which he begins to conduct in the air. As the clock strikes to sound midnight of the fifth of November, Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" begins playing through the city's PA system and the citizens of London go outside, astounded, to the symphony being played around them. In the symphony's climax, The Old Bailey is blown up and fireworks are released.

The Norsefire regime, the futuristic fascist regime of Britain headed by High Chancellor Adam Sutler, explains the destruction of The Old Bailey as a voluntary act of demolition on the part of the city government, citing structural flaws of The Old Bailey as the reason for destruction. The police are also dispatched to find Evey, who was identified based on closed-circuit television images showing her in the company of V.

Soon afterwards V temporarily takes control of the state television station, the British Television Network (BTN), and plays a recorded message urging the populace to take a look at their government and rise up with him on the following Guy Fawkes Day, when he intends to finish Fawkes's job by destroying the Parliament building. Coincidentally, Evey works at the BTN. The police under Chief Inspector Eric Finch arrive at the BTN. V is nearly caught by Lt. Dominic, but Evey maces the officer. Evey is rendered unconscious by the officer, who is himself subdued by V. V takes the unconscious Evey with him.

Evey awakens in V's underground lair, which is richly stocked with works of art that he has "liberated" from the censors. He explains to her that she will need to remain with him for the next year, because even the limited information she has about him could conceivably allow the police to locate his den. As time passes, V is shown stalking certain agents of the government while Finch tries to deduce V's identity based on his victim selection. Finch begins to suspect a cover-up, as the victims all appear to be tied to a former detention facility, whose records are conspicuously absent from the government archives. Evey spends an indeterminate amount of time with V, learning that he has been heavily scarred in a fire. She eventually volunteers to assist V in one of his missions, apparently in order to escape. Dressing up as a young girl, she seduces a corrupt priest. V then murders the man, but Evey runs away. She hides with Gordon, one of her former superiors at BTN. Gordon, whom Evey had planned to meet when she was attacked at the beginning of the film. He shows her his collection of contraband and reveals that he is a closeted homosexual who has been forced underground by the fascist regime; he tells her that if his house is ever searched, the charge of harboring a fugitive will be the least of his problems, and invites her to stay.

Finch's investigation proceeds, albeit slowly. Speaking with the coroner about one of V's victims, he mentions that V has been leaving a rose with each victim. Recalling that the coroner had once been a botanist, he shows her one of the flowers. She appears rattled, but passes it off by saying that she had thought that breed of rose extinct. Finch leaves, and the coroner is shown shortly thereafter pulling out a red diary. At night she is awakened by the appearance of V in her bedroom. Finch, having just discovered that the last surviving senior officer from the detention facility had changed her name and become the coroner, arrives too late to save her but does find the diary. Finch reads the diary before Sutler commands him to destroy it and forget its contents. The diary tells the story of the detention camp's medical experiments, which were focused on germ warfare. The vast majority of the prisoners died. But one, housed in cell V, not only survived the treatments but appeared to gain unusual strength and agility. He was seen emerging from the flames when the camp burned.

Gordon produces an episode of his show that mocks both the V plot and the Chancellor, reasoning that his popularity will protect him from any truly dreadful consequences. When the police raid his house anyway, Evey ducks out a window, but is captured by a man dressed as a police commando. She is held prisoner, tortured, and interrogated, but refuses to divulge anything about V. She derives strength from a letter tucked into a crevice in the cell wall. It is an autobiography of Valerie, a former prisoner incarcerated and presumably executed for being a lesbian. When given one last chance to inform on V to escape her execution, Evey says she'd prefer the firing squad. The policeman, who has been hidden in the shadows throughout her interrogations, tells her that her lack of fear makes her free and walks off, leaving the cell door open. She emerges to find that the guard she'd seen in the hall was a mannequin, and that the "outside door" leads to V's lair. V has manufactured the entire experience except for the letter from Valerie, which he found in much the same way she did; he wanted Evey to understand his motivations. Evey calls V a monster but apparently forgives him, promising to see him again before his final attack.

Finch formulates a theory that the terror attacks that Norsefire used as a rationale for fascism was actually staged by the government in the manner of the Reichstag fire. He is contacted by a man claiming to be the last surviving fingerman involved in the plot. At the man's suggestion, Finch puts Creedy under heavy surveillance. V breaks into Creedy's house and convices him that Sutler is planning his assassination, based on the surveillance. Creedy agrees to help V take out Sutler when the time comes. Shortly thereafter Finch discovers that the purported agent has been dead roughly 20 years, and that V conned him into investigating Creedy; it is not clear whether the conspiracy theory was true nonetheless or if Finch was merely duped by V. V sends a huge number of Guy Fawkes masks to random Londoners. The resultant explosion of "V" sightings puts the nation on edge, the nation's fears being reinforced by a Sutler-ordered propaganda initiative to remind the population why they need the state by reporting, in alarmist detail, everything that's wrong with the world. Finch correctly anticipates that someone will eventually do something stupid but doesn't know how to stop V's plan.

Evey reappears as promised on November 4. He shows her the explosives-laden subway train he's rigged to explode under the Parliament building, and defers to her decision whether to actually set it off. He leaves to meet Creedy, who has abducted Sutler. Creedy shoots Sutler even as Sutler's prerecorded speech is being broadcast. V then kills Creedy and Creedy's men, suffering mortal injuries in the process. V dies in Evey's arms, and Evey places V's body on the train. Finch eventually locates the train and at first tells Evey to stop, however, he eventually allows Evey to send the train on its way. Above ground, hordes of Londoners dressed as Guy Fawkes advance on Westminster. The armed forces, which had been deployed to stop V's threatened attack, receive no orders from the Chancellory and stand down rather than fire on the civilians. Evey takes Finch up on a roof to watch the explosions as V's train detonates, destroying the Houses of Parliament as the 1812 Overture again plays over the public address system.