2nd Post Free Writing

The film, "V for Vendetta" is a 2006 thriller film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote the screenplay. It is an adaptation of the V for Vendetta comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd. Set in London in a near-future dystopian society, Natalie Portman stars as Evey, a working-class girl who must determine if her hero has become the very menace she is fighting against. Hugo Weaving plays V—a bold, charismatic freedom fighter driven to exact revenge on those who disfigured him. It is a good film that represents a political idealism of totalitarianism, by the way the government surfaces over V's purpose of revenge and rule over the country in the film. The film has been a worldwide success in most countries and most people just visualize "V for Vendetta" as a movie of action rather than the sociopolitical ideas that it possess through the government and V's actions. It deals with issues of homosexuality, religion, totalitarianism, Islamophobia and terrorism. People has highly praised "V for Vendetta" because it is a good film in general, and it has several anarchist groups have rejected the film. Also, a few Christian right groups attacked the film for its portrayal of Christianity and sympathetic portrayal of rebellion. Overall, most people have seen the film as controversial, but it really shows how the government practically acts today in modern society, with all the issues presented.