V for Vendetta

Synopsis: Feature film. Set in London in 2020 when Britain has become a Fascist state, a freedom fighter known as V (Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressive society. He rescues a young woman (Portman) from the secret police, and she becomes his unlikely ally. V quotes from Shakespeare including lines from Hamlet, Twelfth Night and Macbeth. In one scene V interrupts three policemen about to assault Evey, takes out a dagger, and quotes from the sergeant in Macbeth I ii ‘The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him’ and ‘Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel/Which smoked with bloody execution’; he later quotes again from Macbeth (I vii) ‘I dare do all that may become a man;/ Who dares do more is none’.
Language: English
Country: Germany; United States
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 2006
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)