Each November 5 the skies throughout the UK cover the brightness of the millions of fireworks that the locals take weeks building up in your refrigerator and bonfires, low-designed course regulations of the Health and Safety . Although the explosion of colors that day have no comparison with the happenings English East pyrotechnics that night, just days after Halloween, natives and strangers can not help but spend some time watching the lighted firmamamento spasm, such as the beating heart of a heavenly power. Leftover firecrackers and bombs remain in the UK refrigerators until Veteran's Day, just days later, on November 11 . The gaps serve to brighten the nights coming Christmas and New Year. None of the celebrations after the initial, however, will be as explosive as the first.
The British (and other member countries of the Commonwealth ) held every 5 November, Guy Fawkes night (also known as the bonfire night). Guy Fawkes was a Catholic terrorist who tried to assassinate King James I of England , his family and the Protestant aristocracy by blowing up the house of lords, located at that time with the Houses of Parliament today, on the day of opening of the political year in 1605
. Fawkes was arrested on 5 November of that year, hence the conclusion on that particular date. The plan, conceived by the Catholic leader Robert Catesby was discovered and dismantled by law enforcement (after tip-off imaginable, interrogations and severe torture) not regicide, slaughter, destruction of the building and symbol of the law the order in Britain and more than possible reversal of the contemporary history of this state and, by extension, world history and the present world as we know it today. Fawkes which was, according to legend, the manager of pressing the red button was tortured for days and sentenced to hang until after the seminconsciencia to be quartered. For better or for worse, in the future become one of the most memorable British historical figures of all time. So much so that the fires are lit each Nov. 5 in the british empire simulate the burning at the stake of this controversial personality (his spirit, we understand).
392 years later, November 5, 1997 , however, British and world history is about to change, ready to fly by air. After saving a young prostitute named first- Evey, a masked fawkianos air and V nickname, blows up the Houses of Parliament as we know, Big Ben included. It's a cold dark night of London after the war (World War III, if you want). England stinks, stinks. What most Brits can not even guess is that this explosion, made up by the government as "planned explosion, will change the foul odor of fascism, which hangs in the air by a delicate, spicy aroma of gunpowder anarchist. That night of November 5, 1997, as the reality of V for Vendetta in London not to miss the colorful fireworks that cause, indeed, a pleasant and almost unknown feeling of happiness in the young and confused Evey.
"While writing this I had an idea for the hero, who now may find a little repetitive. I thought why not a Guy Fawkes retratábamos fully risen, with one of those paper mache masks, and layer a conical hat.'d have a pint and give truly bizarre image that Guy Fawkes has deserved all these years. should not burn the guy every 5 November, but celebrate his attempt to blow up parliament ". He claims that piece of geek is Alan Moore, head of the scripts for the comic books V for Vendetta, the bullet taken mostly by David Lloyd , official co-author of the work. We can imagine send his ass to take the entire parliament is a peculiar tribute to Fawkes by V, the hero of this ultrasombrío no less obscure work. A tribute, parody, and warning.
Under the mask seems to be the answer to the unknowns that the story raises at first, there seems to be a human thinking, suffering and anxiety. any person of flesh and blood with enough sense and love of life and art to lead a change in history, with all the classic charm and theatrical event that any similar required. But although the person behind V has an identity, someone with a name and past, the answer to questions not found in the actor's personal secrets (of which there are, by little, details of the plot along .) The answers are precisely the mask, his mocking smile and dress the vengeful lunatic. This November 5 Fawlkes will press the red button. Has risen and is now immortal. The plans will go well and things now are going to change. V, with their fancy clothes and his dog-Latin, is one concept. The Survivor. On the last man on the planet, the last free mind. The last trace of humanity that is omnipresent super point of sending a black hole. Now is unique, but years ago there were hundreds like him. V is also an idea. The idea that survived the lifeless body of Fawlkes. The idea will survive until I die the last person with knowledge of that history. And it's about to blow up in the air history.
Of course, this whole little speech to the hilt us to the idea of \u200b\u200bdystopia (a term that is unfortunately not accepted by the RAE . V for Vendetta is an adaptation of that kind of masterpiece is 1984 filtered through the imagination of children of Thatcherism. In fact, among the list of references that the creators toyed with the time to transform into a comic all the ideas floating in their talks, the first name he mentioned was the English writer George Orwell . Some key ideas of 1984 remain in V for Vendetta, as the omnipresent Big Brother now converted The Fate , the voice of fate, like the first one controls all movements of the alienated masses. The list also included names of authors and other dystopian works essential as Huxley (Brave New World see ) or Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury see ).
As I said at some point, Orwell's book is the best that a server has read and perhaps this is missing a bit of Orwellian evil intentions, that they will not stop kicking in the balls protagonists and readers. I have never been so afraid to spend reading a book as I went through 1984. So one remembers the hellish London, the thought police , party and the social end of all hope.
certainly in the work that we review today are not lacking a rather significant new icons gallery bunker dystopian as that of knowledge, culture and humanity that is the gallery shadows, hiding where V weaves his plans. The cell number 5 or an autobiography written in a piece of toilet paper are others of these icons, small stories of survival and internal struggle against the powerful superstate.
Obscurantism plot, a wonderful script and critical and gloomy colors of each panel of every page of this collection of comic books converted into graphic novel also made me spend my moments of anguish and affright, I must say . But above all, I enjoyed the main characters. As a hero, V has it all what is lacking in the Winston 1984. That knowledge of the factors, branches of thought and philosophies. While Winston certainly V is known justice. Has the determination, wisdom, weapons and the concept of the historical spectacle. But I leave now to compare. You better give it a chance if they have the chance. Meanwhile, I'll do the same with the movie.
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