"he was my father, my mother, my brother...my friend. he was you and me. he was all of us"
This line by EVEY at th eend of the film is what proved to that i'd just watched the MOVIE OF ALL MOVIES. Id been told of this movie perfetion from its release but from experience i tend not to take anyones opinion on movies.(had been told LORD OF THE RINGS 1 was the longest most boring movie ever so i never bothered watching it then years later i stumbled upon it and decided what the hell. Wasnt i shocked how brilliant it was.) So this year (yes this year...4years after its release) when i watched it i loved it...no....i ADORED IT!
Unlike other masked hero you never find out who he is....because it doesnt matter....because
"we are told to remeber the idea not the man beacuse a man can fail, he can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later an idea can still change the world" (EVEY 01:16 INTO THE MOVIE)
We watch batman, superman and all these superheroes and we fall in love with them...there looks...there outfits...there love affairs...there weapons and there power. But V has no looks (a man with simply one expression), has no outfit (just a blackrob n hat), has no love affair, has only a sword and the power of an idea the idea that
"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." (V)
It doesnt matter who he is
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey Hammond: Well I can see that.
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
MOVIES INSPIRATION:
v is inspired by Guy Fawkes (13 April 1570 – 31 January 1606), also known as Guido Fawkes, the name he adopted while fighting for the Spanish in the Low Countries. He belonged to a group of Catholic restorationists from England who planned the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Their aim was to displace Protestant rule by blowing up the Houses of Parliament while King James I, the entire Protestant, most of the Catholic, aristocracy and nobility were inside. The conspirators saw this as a necessary reaction to the systematic discrimination against English Catholics.
Guy Fawkes Night (or "bonfire night"), held on 5 November in the United Kingdom and some parts of the Commonwealth, is a commemoration of the plot, during which an effigy of Fawkes is burned, often accompanied by a fireworks display. The word "guy", meaning "man" or "person", is derived from his name.
There's a post i read that condemed the message within the film. That the main idea within the movie, the idea V stood for was that the government was against homosexuality (represented by STEVEN FRY'S "gay jay leno" character and the character named valarie who were killed because they were gay) and that homosexuals areterrorists who retaliated by bombing parliament and i quote:
"The message in the movie is clear, persecute homosexuals or criticize their lifestyles and they will destroy your institutions and blow up your buildings. Looks like a terrorist threat to me. Somebody should notify Homeland Security so that they can install "gay" scanners in our airports."
This is, in my opinion, a very narrow minded subjective way to look at this film (not supirsing the person who wrote it was homosexual). Dont get me wrong im not supporting or condemning homosexuals but i do not think this movie was spreading an anti-gay opinion. i believe that the movie expressed the fact that governmnents, or people in authority, have the ability to be biased. If they do not agree with a certain way of life, be it interms of sexuality, race or sex, they resort to violence, they feed off our fears. Thus the message, the idea within the movie is that we the people have more strength than we are made to believe we have....it wasnt about v taking action and bombing parliament it was about the people understaning that they had power,that they could mobilize, that they could stand up to the government as one......that could be one!!!
Was shocked when i found out that V is AGENT SMITH from the MATRIX(hands down the best villan after the joker in dark night), HUGO WEAVING is definately a brilliant actor. 
And the relationship he and natalie portman have in the film is electrifying.....pure perfect!
