How Does V for Vendetta Get Across its Message & Beliefs Through Its Themes

Introduction -
V for Vendetta involves many themes, some of which have messages that can get across as to how the story is told. Vengeance is a theme, V is doing all of this for revenge on the people that experimented on him many years ago. Whilst V is doing this for revenge, the sense of freedom is starts to come out, as V makes all the people stand up to Government and join him. Revolution is one of the most important themes as all the people are now learning not to be feared by Government, but for Government to be feared of the people. Also terrorism can be a big part, as V's acts are being called an act of terrorism, to him they are what he believes in. Religion can also play about this due to the Government experimenting and trying to make humans better.

Theme 1 -
Vengeance. This is what the story is evolved around. V is an experimentation from Government works but when all was destroyed and killed, he survived, all this has been for revenge so V has gone to kill all the people that were still alive and that experimented on him. One of these was the bishop scene. Evey was helping V to kill him by dressing up and acting venerable to the bishop, but when they are talking Evey tries to example it all to him but he doesn't believe. All this happens and then V comes in and kills him, but before he does the bishop knows who he is. He gets all this idea of vengeance when he dies. Purpose is to understand why he is doing all of this to all the people.

Theme 2 -
As all this is being done for revenge on Government, V unveils the theme of freedom. Freedom is the people standing up against there Government. At the final march scene where everyone has joined together, that has now given all the people a sense of freedom. The Government will stand down because they have over come the controlling nature of he Governments power. It's also shown through the angling of the camera, when it looks at the military men, the camera looks down upon them to show that power is being lost. This linking into that people shouldn't be afraid to show what they believe in.

Theme 3 -
One of the biggest themes and possibly the most important message in the film is the sense of revolution. When everyone is stood together all wearing the V mask, they have all now stood up in what V believes in, but then this gets the sense that they will now not be afraid to stand up in what they believe. Government should fear the people, not the people fearing the Government. Tries to get the message across that this is how real society should think, Government is just face, they need someone for people to believe in that they know they will help there future, but as the last person in charge said the same and yet nothing happens.

Theme 4 -
Terrorism occurs a lot in the film. But what people think is terrorism, V thinks is symbolism. When the Old Bailey is destroyed it's classed as terrorism. But for V it symbolises what he will do the following year. It makes it hard for us to determine the identity of someone when they think that the wrong think is the right thing to do. Gets a question going on what actually is terrorism? Terrorism is defined in many different ways, if someone does something bad on a day to day basis, is that classed as terrorism? Gets us thinking about reality in different ways as if everyone and everything we do could be an act of terrorism.

Theme 5 -
Finally religion. As Government take the lives of hundreds, possibly thousands to try and make us better humans in the scenes where people line up for shots, but then cut to a scene where there all dead in a ditch. They succeed in one try and that is when everything got destroyed and V had become a stronger person. As religion in this goes it tries to tell us that we shouldn't try and change who we are, some people would think that it's wrong and really we are just trying to play God in some ways. If this did happen and we succeed, like they did once, it could come back and kill us all for what we did to it.

Conclusion -
I believe that the film does show many messages to the audience through its themes. The way is film is produced and the structure it follows, you could not clarify it as a typical Hollywood Narrative. Although it does follow some of the rules, must are just guided. This could mean that because of how it's set out, and how it doesn't follow certain rules, it can make us question the rules in real life on society and Government are set out and how we follow certain rules.