V FOR VENDETTA - Document Personnel ANGLAIS 1ère ou Terminale - The Surveillance Society

V FOR VENDETTA :

Based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, V for Vendetta takes place in an alternate and dystopian vision of Britain in which a corrupt and abusive totalitarian government called Norsefire has risen to complete power. The movie takes place in 2020, in London. The regime has brutally oppressed and eliminated anyone who is not white, heterosexual or Christian. During a threatening run in with the secret police, an unassuming young woman named Evey ( portrayed by Natalie Portman) is rescued by a vigilante named V ( portrayed by Hugo Weaving) -- a mysteriously caped figure both articulate and skilled in combat.No one knows his identity. V embodies the principles of rebellion from an authoritarian state, donning a mask of vilified would-be terrorist of British history Guy Fawkes and leading a revolution sparked by assassination and destruction. Evey becomes his unlikely ally, newly aware of the cruelty of her own society and her role in it.

The movie is directed by James McTeigue. It was released on March 16th 2006 and it grossed 70.5 million dollars at the box-office. The dystopian movie lasts 2 hours and 25 minutes. It is by The Warner Bros cinema Studios. V for Vendetta has a philosophical background to it, and looks at such issues as surveillance and the disciplinary society. When the movie opened in 2006, it was reviewed more as a political manifesto than as a film. This action packed movie is often associated to the Surveillance Society and George Orwell’s 1984, the two films and books having many similarities.

In deed, every day you are watched by the government, whether it’s through the traffic camera or when you go into a shopping store. There is a great deal of government surveillance within the movie V for Vendetta, which is a fictional movie. Also, in the non-fictional world, there are different things that our government does to watch and protect the people of the world. Surveillance is a big part of the V for Vendetta movie. The government uses surveillance throughout their cities to help monitor the citizens and control them if they do something bad. The citizens are taught that it is for their protection, when in reality it’s just so the government can see what everyone is doing and to control the citizens in the way they want to. In our own society, government surveillance is used all over the country. It is used in banks, hotels, gas stations, and heavily populated US cities such as: New York City, Las Vegas, and even Cincinnati. The government can access any satellite and zoom in on any location. The government can hack into our cellphones, laptops, basically any electronic devices that we have if they think that the government is at any danger. In V for Vendetta, there are many types of government surveillance such as: the government watching people on camera, having curfews and being able to listen into people’s conversations : Government agents roam the streets in spy vans, to listen in on everyone from average citizens to the Bishop of Westminster, in order to seek out dissenters and other threats to those in power in the movie — all in the name of public safety. Cameras with facial recognition are everywhere. In the non-fictional world there are still government surveillances such as: the government hacking into people’s phones, watching people who have diseases, and criminals being watched by the government. Even though V for Vendetta is a fictional movie, it shows some ways in which the real world government uses surveillance to control people.

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