V for Vendetta/V字仇杀队

An excellent work! This movie was one of the best explanations of "1984" by George Orwell, and the only difference was: people won finally in the movie. A totalitarian regime could maintain its rule only by fear, lie, coercion, which could only produce repressed people, mutual distrust among people (even within the ruling group), and the final grave-diggers to bury the ruling bureau.

The power of the people is the strongest to bury totalitarian state powers.

For mainland Chinese, the movie was more than a sci-fi film, but a realistic one.

V for Vendetta: The Revolutionary Speech:

Quotes:
V: Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, whereby those important events of the past, usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you, then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.

非常棒的片子，是《1984》精神的绝佳阐述之一；唯一不同的是：在本片中，民众的力量最终获胜。一个极权国家只能靠恐慌、谎言、高压手段来维系自己的统治，它能制造的，只是被压抑的民众，人和人之间的互不信任（甚至在统治集团内部），以及最后埋葬自己的掘墓人。

民众的力量，是埋葬极权国家的最强大的力量。

对于大陆中国人来说，本片看上去像是科幻片，实际上却是现实主义影片。

Performance impression:
Director: James McTeigue
Stars: Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving