Tuesday, November 4, 2014

V for Vendetta POV and conspiracy theory

The movie is an excellent interpretation of an Orwellian society that ends in the government being toppled for freedom.  The idea of the Anonymous mask generally associated with the internet hacking organization terrorizing the digital space is given a new face in the movie V for Vendetta.  Instead of a cyber organization, the Guy Fawkes mask is dawned on by one man named V who is trying to topple an Orwellian society set in England after the United States had fallen to war and corruption.  The government is cruel and manipulative such as Big Brother in 1984.

The connection between V trying to influence the protagonist EV, a woman whose parents were captured by the government and now works at BTN, the local news network.  As the movie progresses. their relationship and friendship is put to the test as V captures her and tortures her in the guise of the government to help her lose any sense of fear and live a life without fear as she had asked him beforehand.  On the following 5th of November (the anniversary of Guy Fawkes death), V has gathered the support of the civilians against the government to march on Parliament while EV sets a train filled with explosives and fireworks including the corpse of V off to Parliament through an underground rail road system.  Mr. Finch who finds EV in the tunnel allows her to blow Parliament up.

The movie brings up the concept of conspiracies that when government is dishonest to the people, the truth will come out.  While most modern governments are not Orwellian, a comparison can be made to modern society and even modern understanding of history.  Look at Stonehenge and the large stones that were used to construct the figure.  Now picture the technology available to the prehistoric peoples that constructed the monument.  They had basic stone chisels and hammers and pickaxes.  They did not have an advanced understanding of math as we do today, or an understanding of science as we do today.  They do not have the technology modern man would require to build and lift such monolithic stones weighing tons of pounds each.  Prehistoric man could not have constructed Stonehenge because with the technology mainstream archaeology tells us they possessed.  Advanced technology is required to construct these stone structures that ancient man constructed.  Even if by some strethc of the imagination ancient man could construct and lift these stones with chisels and hammers, why did they not cut the stones into smaller stone to make it easier to transport.  Why do something so agonizingly painfully difficult.  The answer is that it wast that difficult for them.
Remember Remember the Fifth of November.  
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/


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