Fear, Freedom, And Foresight
Fear, Freedom, and Foresight
"Once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission" (V, "V for Vendetta"). Throughout history there has been struggle of power and control between a governing body and it's people. In the movie "V for Vendetta," the government has ultimate control over it's people in a dystopian future, created by a series of strategic events that could be in the near future for the United States. In the book review "Monsters, Androids, and Corporations," by an anonymous staff writer, the author speculates whether or not our views of the future are played out through the books we read and movies we watch. If movies actually represent our views of the future than "V for Vendetta" offers us foresight into a future that is not too far from, or at least capable of happening.
In the movie, Britain's government, known as Norsefire, has......
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