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Where is the Anarchy?
In V for Vendetta, a masked hero attacks the institutions and leaders of state that rules with fear, torture, incarceration, and propaganda and inspires the masses to rise up and overthrow this morally bankrupt government.
But--then what?
Was V fighting for a better government?
Or NO government?
While the movie seems to leave V's politics at "Freedom! Forever!," in the graphic novel V passionately tells us that a free society is one where we don't cede our power to government, where we don't let leaders run our lives. The V movie ads say "People shouldn't be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people." To the V of the graphic novel, government shouldn't just be afraid of the people...
...it should be ELIMINATED by the people.
