One of the points my Professor made is that
"V" the protagonist is a "terrorist". I suppose he is, though
I've never really viewed him this way. But do we as Americans view any of our
"Founding Fathers" as terrorists? Was the signing of the declaration
of independence not act of treason? Was the Boston Tea Party not a terrorist act?
Was George Washington not a traitor or a terrorist? Did he not kill his fellow
English citizens? Can we classify "V" fairly and truly as a terrorist?
In my opinion, No he is not. We as people when in a oppressive government
revolt at some point, it’s the way things tend to go, and there always has to
be one person to start the machine in a sense. In "V For Vendetta",
"V" was in my opinion that one person! He is a terrorist to some; but
he is as much a hero to the English people in this film, as William Wallace was
to the Scottish. Terrorist in my opinion is a word we throw around to often and
too lightly. But what truly is the difference between a hero and a terrorist?
Is it the side you are on? Is it a political view? Is it something time has to
tell? Is it something that history makes you out to be? Or is it even a black
and white matter? Or is a justification we give the individual?
"V for vendetta" really depicts how
an idea cant be killed, "V" is an idea not a man, he shows that a 400
year idea was still alive and he shows that by wearing a mask of the face of
Guy Fawkes, his idea was embodied through the mask and when the masks were worn
by the citizens of England it showed the idea was spreading. "V" is
an individual who was dehumanized, he was tortured, experimented upon and had
no rights. The government took him from his home and put him in what I would
compare to a concentration camp, which he eventually escaped from and had a
"Vendetta" because there was no justice for what was done to him. The
party members tried to justify what was done to make the people trust the
"party" but it was a false sense of trust. "V" took the law
into his own hands only to make sure it didn't happen again to anyone else, he
did kill people not only to vindicate what happened to him but to make the
corrupt party collapse because of there existence’s came from a lie.
