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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PORTMAN/HURT/GRAVES/FRY
EAN: 0012569736603
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: August 01, 2006
Running Time: 132 minutes
Sales Rank: 1658
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 17, 2006
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Product Description:
In a futuristic Britain where a totalitarian regime rules, a young woman is rescued from certain death by a masked vigilante calling himself \''V,\'' who launches a one-man crusade against government tyranny and oppression.
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: PORTMAN/HURT/GRAVES/FRY
Title: V FOR VENDETTA
Street Release Date: 10/03/2006
Domestic
Genre: ACTION / ADVENTURE
Amazon.com:
'Remember, remember the fifth of November,' for on this day, in 2020, the minds of the masses shall be set free. So says code-name V (Hugo Weaving), a man on a mission to shake society out of its blank complacent stares in the film V for Vendetta. His tactics, however, are a bit revolutionary, to say the least. The world in which V lives is very similar to Orwell's totalitarian dystopia in 1984: after years of various wars, England is now under 'big brother' Chancellor Adam Sutler (played by John Hurt, who played Winston Smith in the movie 1984), whose party uses force and fear to run the nation. After they gained power, minorities and political dissenters were rounded up and removed; artistic and unacceptable religious works were confiscated. Cameras and microphones are littered throughout the land, and the people are perpetually sedated through the governmentally controlled media. Taking inspiration from Guy Fawkes, the 17th century co-conspirator of a failed attempt to blow up Parliament on November 5, 1605, V dons a Fawkes mask and costume and sets off to wake the masses by destroying the symbols of their oppressors, literally and figuratively. At the beginning of his vendetta, V rescues Evey (Natalie Portman) from a group of police officers and has her live with him in his underworld lair. It is through their relationship where we learn how V became V, the extremities of the party's corruption, the problems of an oppressive government, V's revenge plot, and his philosophy on how to induce change.
Based on the popular graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta's screenplay was written by the Wachowski brothers (of The Matrix fame) and directed by their protégé, James McTeigue. Controversy and criticism followed the film since its inception, from the hyper-stylized use of anarchistic terrorism to overthrow a corrupt government and the blatant jabs at the current U.S. political arena, to graphic novel fans complaining about the reconstruction of Alan Moore's original vision (Moore himself has dismissed the film). Many are valid critiques and opinions, but there's no hiding the message the film is trying to express: Radical and drastic events often need to occur in order to shake people out of their state of indifference in order to bring about real change. Unfortunately, the movie only offers a means with no ends, and those looking for answers may find the film stylish, but a bit empty. --Rob Bracco
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - One of my favorites
This movie is AWSOME! It has action, drama, romance, a slightly insane yet spectacularly brilliant main character, and a chain of events that fall like dominos (also included), leading to an ending that is guarantied to give you goose-bumps and make you cry like a little girl.
BUY IT.
Rating: - Remember, Remember the Fifth of November
"The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. . . . This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
-Plato
In the 1980s comic books took a revolutionary turn (one the likes of which had not been seen since the `60s and `70s) and became politically and socially relevant again. These were the days of conservative and consumerist values, when Ronald Reagan was president and Margaret Thatcher ... Read More
Rating: - Llega el comic a salvar al cine
No quise leer el comic antes de ver la pelicula para luego no sentirme decepcionado, sin embargo ocurrio lo contrario, en algunas partes la pelicula supera en emocion al comic y realmente es de agradecer el poder volver a lo mejor de los Wachowsky, los de Matrix y Animatrix, no los de sus decepcionantes secuelas. En definitiva nadie olvidara el 5th of november. Eso si, se echan de menos los subtitulos en español para los extras.
Rating: - great image
Estoy muy contento con la adquisición de esta película. Imagen y sonido muy buenos, así como el precio y el envío por parte de Amazon. Buena película y mejor compra. ¡¡Felicidades Amazon!!
Rating: - Guy Fawkes Day
I really like this film!
Natalie Portman's acting is so very good.
About an England where a neo-Nazi has come to power;
the use of fear in the classic sense has made a police state
possible: it reminds one very much of the current Bush administration
where 'security' overrides rights.
The prisoner/ experimental subject in cell V in an biological
concentration camp right out Germany at the end of WWII survives.
Like the X-man magneto he has abilities beyond ... Read More
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