User:Darkwarriorblake/V for Vendetta (film)

Plot
In the near future, Britain is ruled by the Norsefire political party, a fascist and authoritarian regime led by High Chancellor Adam Sutler, that controls the populace through propaganda, and imprisons or executes those deemed undesirable, including immigrants, homosexuals, and people of alternative religions.

Evey Hammond works for the state-run British Television Network (BTN). Her activist parents died in prison, and her brother was killed in the St. Mary's school terrorist attack. One evening a Guy Fawkes-masked vigilante, "V," rescues her from assault by the secret police and takes her to witness as his bombs destroy the Old Bailey. On November 5, V hijacks BTN to address the nation, claiming credit for the attack and encouraging the populace to resist Norsefire by joining him on next year's Guy Fawkes Night outside the Houses of Parliament. Evey is knocked unconscious aiding V's escape and he takes her with him to avoid her arrest and likely execution.

V kills Norsefire propagandist, Lewis Prothero, Dr. Delia Surridge, and, with Evey's assistance, the Bishop of London, Anthony Lilliman. Evey flees after betraying V, hoping to be forgiven by Norsefire. Assigned to find V, chief inspector Eric Finch recovers Surridge's journal which details her involvement twenty years earlier in biological weapons development and human experimentation at the Larkhill Detention Facility, ostensibly to create cures for viral attacks, but instead creating the "St. Mary's Virus". Dozens of prisoners died during testing, except for a man in cell "V" who developed mutated immunities, physical enhancements, as well as amnesia, and eventually destroyed Larkhill during his escape. Finch meets with former covert operative William Rockwood, who reveals Norsefire ran Larkhill and Peter Creedy, head of the secret police, had the virus released at specific targets, including St. Mary's, and blamed it on terrorists so Norsefire could use the public's fear to gain unchecked power, while party members such as Prothero and Lilliman became rich through the cure's manufacture. Finch later learns Rockwood was likely V in disguise.

Evey takes shelter with her former boss, talkshow host Gordon Dietrich, who shares with her his collection of illegal materials such as subversive paintings, an antique Quran, and homoerotic photographs. Emboldened by Evey and V, he satirizes Sutler on his show, leading to his and Evey's arrest. She takes solace in a note hidden in her cell from Valerie Page, a woman imprisoned in the cell next to V, who held on to hope despite her situation. Tortured and facing her own execution, Evey refuses to submit to her captors and is released, finding herself in V's lair. While Dietrich was arrested and executed, V intercepted Evey before Creedy's men could, and subjected her to the experience so she would learn to live without fear. Although initially angry at V, she promises to return to see him before November 5. To kill the otherwise unreachable High Chancellor, V convinces Creedy to kill Sutler and take his place, in exchange for V's surrender.

On November 5, V has hundreds of thousands of Guy Fawkes masks distributed across the nation, leading to a rise in masked, anonymous chaos and eventually riots after the secret police kill a young masked girl. V shares a dance with Evey before leading her to the shuttered London underground he restored over the previous decade. Believing he is going to his death, V bequeaths the decision to start the train to Evey, and although she pleads that he abandon his crusade and leave with her, he refuses. V meets Creedy who executes Sutler and demands V unmask, but he kills Creedy and his men, stating that the idea he represents is more important than his identity. Mortally wounded, V returns to Evey and admits he loves her before dying in her arms. Finch finds Evey placing V's body aboard the train, but allows her to start it after she affirms that the people need hope. With Sutler and Creedy dead, the military forces in London stand down as countless citizens dressed as V descend on Parliament and witness its destruction. Finch asks for V's true identity, to which she replies, "he was all of us."