Film I V for Vendetta
Dortmunder U | RWE Forum I Kino im U
The RWE-Forum I Kino im U is showing a thematic film program to coincide with the exhibition Evil Clowns.
V FOR VENDETTA
USA, GB, D 2006, R: James McTeigue, 132 Min., FSK 16
RWE Forum I Kino im U
An avenger haunts a dystopian, repressive Great Britain. Operating under cover of the night, he signs his actions with a ‘V’ and wears a Guy Fawkes mask, in honour of the English conspirator who was executed in 1605 after plotting to murder the King James I.
On the anniversary of Fawkes’s assassination attempt, V plans a highly symbolic attack to encourage the population to fight the fascist regime. In V for Vendetta, which is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Alan Moore, Hugo Weaving plays the dark freedom fighter whose eternally grinning mask – a symbol of resistance and revolution – lends him a both comical and uncanny air.