Wednesday, November 12, 2008
V for Vendetta
Here's a clip of the movie V for Vendetta where V is giving his speech. This movie is really similar to 1984 and it show's the turning point of the movie. I don't want to ruin the movie for anyone who didn't see it yet. But I just thought this would be an interesting dystopia to talk about.
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This looks great. I love the part where he talks about the power of words. I'll have to order this over Netflix. Thanks for posting it.
This movie has so many similarities to 1984, I always found this speech very powerful. Going back to my John Lennon post, he speaks of looking only in the mirror, the people allowed it to happen to themselves, it was not forced upon them. In an Utopian society the citizens must retain their freedom of speech, be free to think as they wish. It seems a common theme in most dystopias we have studied thus far that speech is one of the first privileges taken from the people, words are limited, which then limits what we can think.
Here's the first speech he gives at the beginning of the movie which I also found to be interesting. The poetic way in which he says it makes it that much clearer that words represent our freedom.
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villian by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengence; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it is my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V."
I agree with what's been said so far - speech is the cornerstone of civilization and freedom. A utopia is nothing without expression of the individual, which is simply impossible without adequate language. One cannot live a full and healthy life without being able to communicate with those around him. I think of it as being similar to being cast out into a foreign country without knowing one word of the language. Without communication, without words, we are lost.
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