HANDS DOWN MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL TIME!!!! I've watched it at least 10 times and it ALWAYS moves me so much, fills my heart and soul with overwhelming purpose and inspiration. One of the few times, maybe the only time, when a movie so anti-government was so successful! That alone we must appreciate and be grateful for. In the history of the world, it has not been very common to see the state allow such popular criticism to reach the masses. Even today, I am sure the powers that be have plenty of pull in Hollywood, but this is a message they could not suppress even in the slightest bit. The dystopia that the movie portrays is a very real possibility which is not too far away in our own real future if we don't prevent it. Governments are growing towards this more and more each year. Unfortunately though, we don't have a charismatic action-hero revolutionary, who happens to be a master of martial arts, fencing, and explosives to lead us against tyranny. One of my favorite quotes is in the beginning when after V's crazy introduction speech, Evey asks him, "Are you like a.... crazy person?" and V replies "I'm quite sure they will say so." That hits so close to home about what it's like to be a libertarian/an-cap like me. I cannot tell you how many people assume I am mentally disturbed or some degree of crazy, just because I am aware of our enslavement to the state and because I'm not easily brainwashed. Even now I know many of you reading this are already thinking to yourselves that I must be crazy. What we all need to hear, is the message V gives on the emergency channel to the whole country. He gets everyone's attention and explains to them that they, the citizens, are the real ones to blame for allowing the government to take their freedoms. For allowing tyranny to come to power to give them a false sense of security. That is exactly what is happening in the world right now! They brainwash you to trust them to protect you from "terrorists", and all you have to do in exchange is agree to give them absolute power. As V says in the speech, "But again, truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty you need only look into a mirror. " Another part of this movie I really loved was the messages on the toilet paper from Valerie. The relationship she had with V, even though V never got to say anything back to her, is so moving. That was nothing but pure love for another human being, without any reason or even any knowledge of the person she was writing to. And how V was inspired to go on the entire vendetta, all because of her. The roses he gave to the victims and the shrine in his home, signs of how much he loved her and how all this revenge was to avenge the evil that was done to such a beautiful soul. This always reminds me of how important it is to love our fellow man in every sense of the word. How if we really are to evolve to a voluntary society, we have to have love in our hearts for each other, and eradicate senseless and unjustified hate. To wrap up my little rambling 2 cents about this great movie, I will leave you with what may be my favorite quote from the whole movie, and a personal motto that I have stolen from V and have been trying to incorporate into my own life every day: Evey Hammond: [reads] Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici. V: [translates] By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe. Evey Hammond: Personal motto? V: From "Faust". Evey Hammond: That's about trying to cheat the devil, isn't it? V: It is.