Everyone might think we are in this precise moment, but we are by far in the ascension of Sutler. We are not at the end of the story... We're in the beginning...
@@CogitoErgoSumFortis correct the Shite has no yet even begun to hit the fan. the truth is i am more fascinated by his ability to see the future. Can you see it. Can you see the past and how its gotten us here. can you see how this is all going to play out? because if you cant go back to sleep your just wasting your time.
monjiaitaly Unfortunately. Ferguson, Charlotte; just two events in the vast chain of dominoes leading towards ruin. And much of the powers that be either can't or won't do anything. The ones who won't will silence the ones who can't, accelerating the reaction further and further. All the powder keg will need then is a single spark; a single event, no matter how big or how small, that will then plunge this country straight into the depths of oblivion.
Joshua Fogg Oh yeah...I could see a civil war...either the status quo or the right wing would win that fight... FUCK, the future looks bleak from a pessimist view.
Everyone might think we are in this precise moment, but we are by far in the ascension of Sutler. We are not at the end of the story... We're in the beginning...
Gorillabot3000 not suicide, perhaps hopeless, but not suicide. Suicide is the taking of one's life due to a feeling of worthlessness and hopelessness. Rebellion in the face of impossible odds is sacrifice.
Gorillabot3000 You don't always need an army for a rebellion. If noone stands with you, they are just not ready to take the leap yet. But the rebel who stands alone will either succeed (not very likely though) or he will be made a martyr, which will inspire follows all around. "Dying for rebellion against injustice is never in vain, as you have not lived." -me
TheAndersand2500 Not if they sweep it under the rug. Also, unless you made a famous speech, or published a book with that quote in it, I'm pretty sure quotation marks aren't neccessary.
Always liked how how the Fingerman has out his badge like he thinks it's gonna save him from his act of murder. Then the last thing that LITERALLY goes through his mind is that swinging pipe wrench.
traxx attaxx She did die. Many of the people shown in the final scene taking off their masks are dead, like Valerie & Ruth. It's a symbolism, most likely to showcase how every one of them played a vital part in ending Sutler's dictatorship.
Zinathi Mbarane Very well put. But then again the people are only as powerful as they will allow themselves. And if you have one person stand forth as a symbol would that not in turn cause people to stand up with said symbol thus empowering THEMSELVES as well as said symbol?
It has been relevant to the world since the last couple of years. It has been relevant in Hong Kong, in Chile, in Catalonia since last year, and it is now relevant in America. And it will probably be relevant in even more places in the world in the coming few years.
Everyone might think we are in this precise moment, but we are by far in the ascension of Sutler. We are not at the end of the story... We're in the beginning...
@@aimeeosmulski1831 if the march on area 51 materializes.... Things will get interesting (and I'm not taking about alien tech... Just that many people showing up at a classified government facility and demanding entrance.)
The shooting of a child is their “shot heard round the world”-suddenly every neighbor, relative, and anyone with a feeling that this CANNOT be tolerated went after the fingerman and then the riots began and revolution soon after.
I think the last domino at the end of the chain is a message telling him that he has to manually do one more thing to complete his plan (the whole picture). In this case it would mean he would have to remove himself (the individual domino) from the picture, i.e. sacrifice himself. Superb film.
I saw it differently. I saw all the dominoes falling, everything going according to plan, yet one remained unfallen. To me, it was a message that even the greatest of plans can be blocked, when a single domino refuses to fall. It was a message that a single person can make a difference. It was a message that you or I can change even the most seemingly impossible of realities. It was a message of hope... and encouragement.
I saw it as all those dominoes falling were a chain of chaos. V said violence can be used for good. And sometimes if you want things to stop if you want freedom a new world order something has to start and a chain of reactions happen and then it comes to an end. That one piece of the domino was the complete stop of chaos. Like all that violence and protests and fighting eventually paid off and stopped and finally received freedom. in order for revolution to happen someone has to start them and then people will follow, a chain of constant corruption will happen and eventually it will end. The one piece was V, what he stood for, a new world order.
Was thinking the exact same thing... all those clips of police in the movie you could replace with clips of the riots right now. Such an odd feeling of déjà vu watching this as to what’s going on now
I love the symbolism of the final domino that doesn't fall: V realizes in that moment that, in order for the plan he's concocted to truly be complete, he himself must die. He's the final piece that needs to be removed in order for all the other pieces to fall. :)
i always just saw it as "one more domino left" as in there only being one more step to go: blow up parliament. i obviously put a lot less thought into than you 2 did.
I always got another theory: That final domino represents the wish of Evey Hammond, that's why V makes feel the same that he felt years ago... "What was done to me was monstrous, and they created a monster"
@Boel B well mostly because it was released just 4 years after the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the world, so critics weren't happy about a movie which tells us to blow up the parliament. & also people thought it was unrealistic that a tyrannical authoritarian government would exist in the 21st century *cough* Hong Kong *cough* So yeah it was far ahead of its time
It's strange. When I was younger the only dystopia I would see would be on the cinema screen or the pages of a book. The more time progresses the more I start to feel that I'm currently living in one.
Meanwhile this is basically about to happen after the George Floyd killing. Years of ignoring this issue, unprecedented unemployment, an austere social safety net policy ($1,200), schools closed down, and unrest from stay at home orders during a pandemic all are colliding with a particularly indefensible in custody killing over 7 agonizing minutes have left people with little to lose (no job, no economy, no justice, no social safety net, etc.). We are watching as Trump is doing the only thing he knows how to do...Who knew the coronavirus was basically the preamble in this chain of events.
It's strange. You imagine it would be more extreme but the steps are so slow and banal it's a shock to realize you're not waiting for dystopia to happen, it's already happened.
Everyone might think we are in this precise moment, but we are by far in the ascension of Sutler. We are not at the end of the story... We're in the beginning...
It probably didn't take him any time at all. Remember, he was injected with drugs that changed him into almost a super human in strength, endurance, speed, intelligence.
Linda Broesky yeah but he's not superman, from what I've seen he's still bound by human limitations but he doesn't allow those limitations to stop him from getting what he wants. Kinda like batman but more grounded in reality
You recall he had 20 years of preparation until he made his grand entrance onto the centre stage. The last year, the 21th year waiting for the 11th hour, he could do what he wanted. And for an impossibly clever man who redefined the meaning of anarchy as order without hierarchy, without law as the guideline for morality... he could do as he pleased.
I read Brave New World at the end of 2021, and 1984 right after. I'm irritated that it wasn't required reading in school. If I ever have children, I'll make sure they read them.
Been reading through it recently and it's scary how dead on accurate it is. Specifically the 2 +2=5 bit. I've literally seen that argument on TV the 2+2 might actually equal 5.
The comic and the movie are idiotic wishful thinking. There was no dictatorship in the history of the World that was overthrown by its own people. Only with some foreigner force one way or another. Without it people are just staying oppressed sheep forever.
+Sight Beyond Sight You should read Brave No World. There is no need for censoring when you can brainwash people into obedience. Violence is useless when planning mass control. Only the illusion of violence (terrorism) will do the job.
+Youssef Rochdi Or you could not play the game at all. Look at alternatives to the game are harder, in every respect because part of the game is keeping people comfortable. Some tips. Start something that won't finish in your lifetime. Stop caring what anyone else thinks. Start caring how everyone else feels. Whatever you do, involve people where possible, build community not individualism. Be the guy or girl that makes people turn their head and smile, or comment on because each time you do, you break the status quo just by being alive, you count. It should be something you celebrate when the masses call you crazy, because crazy is the tool of the masses or a fearful mind to repress something different to itself. STOP USING LABELS and start questioning every single one you see someone use, their motivations and reasons. Start validating peoples emotions instead of stopping them, its okay to be angry, sad, fearful, whatever, these are the cues to change something and the impetus to do so. There you go guys and girls, that's how you start living with some freedom again, peace to you all.
+Mark Joseph Middleton It is a bit suspect I cannot edit my above post, so I'll just drop the final line, the most important. Know yourself, what makes you tick, know your triggers and why they are there. You'll start to understand how life works for the people around you, as well as yourself the more you ask that question.
+Sight Beyond Sight LOL. No. This is the sort of thing you make to make sheep of people. This is the sort of pabulum you encourage, because it creates predictable and utterly stupid ideas of what rebellion means. This is what the Idiocracy creates to keep the sheep thinking what it wants them to think. How can you not see that?
Matthew Reynolds What I see is a populace waiting for a super-hero to fix it all for them. They show modest support but when that hero falls, they scurry back under the rocks and hide.
the detail of the government man who shoots the girl having red eyes as the people attack him. as if he was stressed and acted irrational, and once he realised what hed done, he cries, then the people come for him, he wipes the tears, having to appear strong and police-like.. such a good detail
He knows us better than we know ourselves. That and he has seemingly infinite financial resources, including access to high explosives, and a high-quality manufacturing facility. Those masks and cloaks had to be produced sonewhere.
V stole priceless and forbidden works of art from the vaults of a totalitarian militaristic government, and he stole top-quality food from the High Chancellor's personal supply chain. Stealing money - or selling some of what he stole - would hardly be more difficult. Once he had the funds, he could purchase anything he wanted from anywhere inside or outside of the UK, and he could spread those orders out over numerous suppliers and over a period of years to defer suspicion, since he'd been planning and building up to these events for a decade. Although we only see one example of it, V is clearly capable of disguising himself and interacting with others undiscovered. In carrying out a 10-year-long plan, he had undoubtedly forged many connections with dissidents inside and outside the government, as well as the kind of black-market sources that even the most crushing of totalitarian governments never manage to squash. I suspect that he had many false identities through which he acquired what he needed.
In the books V wasn’t a single person but several people working together. This was one of the main changes to film because V had to have a single voice he didn’t need on ink & paper
Right now, it looks to me like the fuse is already lit. it's either going to go boom or somebody who actually has some brains in their skull is going to cut the fuse before it gets that far.
Michael Ziegler There is no double sided meaning to the word "terrorist". There is a very clear definition, and V is a terrorist which is someone who uses violence or intimidation with political aims. Just because you use terrorism against bad people doesn't make it not terrorism.
This scene feels much less badass when I picture V pouring over that pile of dominoes for days to line everything up just right for the sake of symbolism. Its like, dude, don't you have a revolution to get ready for? Are you really this bored?
As someone who's worked in postal and courier work, hundreds of thousands of identical parcels all showing up for every address in town simultaneously would have us contacting the police long before they ever got delivered. Also it'd slow us right the fuck down stopping at every house.
Id wager V was smarter than that. He probably shipped them randomly over a good frame of time and it was only when the Inspector got his that they began to look into it closely. The scenes we're seeing in this clip aren't taking place across days but weeks and probably months.
From a logistical standpoint it makes no sense, but I see the masks as a metaphor/representation for/of V's ideas rather than literal physical deliveries or objects, which everyone is receiving and wearing (concurring with). It also explains how "dead" characters come back at the end, because while they may have been physically killed the ideas they held (represented by the mask) had not.
I like to think that over the Year that V had been working on this plan the people in London all(or at least most)had come round to Vs way of thinking, so much so that when this happened the people in the postal service didn't report it as most of them were V sympathizers
It's worth noting that this is happening in a totalitarian state. It's entirely likely that the paperwork for them is immaculate, the shipper some middle functionary in the government who's just high enough up that nobody is willing to question it on face value. After all, the State set it up, right? They know best.
+tythorn13 And set them up. And when the moment came to take the shot, the cameraman forgot to take the cap off the lens. So the second domino man quit. And they had to hire another one.
Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and... you may call me V.
Ed Lazaro More like more reason to dislike the current state of belief that not all men (or women) are created equal, and that the life of one person is somehow worth less than that of another based on cultural differences. I myself have white skin, but that doesn't make me prejudiced against anyone.
Katherine Forrester Sorry, you are right, not all white people are bad every race has their good and bad people. The rich and powerful that put these beliefs out are the ones to blame.
First: Totally awesome movie! Remember that V had completely penetrated the government computer systems. V likely spent months beforehand forging official permissions for all those masks and set them to trigger the day they arrived. I'm more impressed he had them MADE undetected than shipped undetected. Maybe came from overseas?
Or manufactured years in advance. All of the work he did to prepare took at least a decade. It seems like he started planning this whole thing as soon as he escaped Lark Hill.
You missed the symbolism, V represents the one single solitary domino that doesn't fit neatly with there rest. The only one standing when the rest fall, the only one that doesn't have a place within the new world he aims to create. The odd man out, as always.
That’s because those who set the direction of the future shouldn’t be the ones who make the decision of should we start it. It should be up to those who will live in that future to make that choice. We give you the tools and set the direction it’s up to the future to initiate it
Campus Maximus Because you'll believe any lie you tell yourself. Just out of interest, if you ever imagined you were Hitler, why would you believe the Jews were evil? If you want to know who the guilty are, you need only look into a mirror.
Campus Maximus The complete opposite. When they rise up against their Orwellian leftist government who impose hate speech laws to stop people from discussing their failures. Btw, calling anyone who disagrees with you a nazi isn't debating. It's just pathetic.
This montage is fucking art. The most cohesive amalgamation of storytelling elements-music, editing, writing-all wound tightly around the scene between Finch and Dascombe. And the way the scene’s tension is built-with its false release of “it was only a feeling”-a semi-sweet joke couched before part 2 of the rising action of Orwellian themes, culminating in the true climax of the final Domino cascade, a visual representation of the unstoppable force paradox.
I didn't know London was in Minnesota... It looks like everything was written before, twenty years ago. Maybe there is a common scenarist between V For Vendetta and The Simpsons.
@@CogitoErgoSumFortis Yes, yes, I know, but Alan Moore could have been visionnary. :) I know he also set that to give a reference to the "fascistic" Thatcher era and the the film makers prefered to use a terroristic context, etc.
The first time I watched this scene the world was normal and this was a movie, now a decade later is a reflection of society. We slowly saw it happen, and no one ever stood up and said enough.
Change your perspective. If you're younger than 40, the war was 'lost' in the 1970's. You only thought things were normal. Things seem chaotic because people are standing up. With the end of 2023 a few days away, the dominos are beginning to accelerate. Everyone can see the dominos falling one after another. Only the masterminds can foresee its conclusion.
@@stevenrayson6804 we can see where it’s going unfortunately many who do are powerless to stop it. If you ask me I wouldn’t, this world has its problems and sometimes you’ve got to destroy something to rebuild it better
I've always liked the significance of the last domino. He has set the pieces for the future but it's not his decision. It's the next people's decision to pursue that path. V set it up to fix the problem,but she as the future of the action taken must make the choice. The past will only teach if the future listens. It is the choice we must all make. Do you chose to be held down and back by your past, or do you chose to break that wall and move forward.?
The end of the scene never fails to fill me with melancholy. Seeing V pick up the last domino piece and wistfully look at it, I've always felt like he was contemplating his own self. The last piece, supporting the outcome of an entire chain reaction made of hundreds more, still standing while all the others fell; A key element, so important and determining, and yet... absolutely alone. A perfect metaphor of his whole life, both brilliant and incredibly sad. It shows how an idea can easily support a nation... but the man behind it has the beaviest burden of all to carry.
That's an interesting take on it. When I watched it I saw it as he was the last piece, which had to fall to complete the picture. Which of course he does, he sacrifices himself to complete the plan as his work was done.
Besides the point that people come back because of the whole drama thats going on, can we just appreciate this 5 min. clip? It‘s a artistic masterpiece, really one of the best movies ever made, no cap
The chills. No matter how many times I see it, I always shiver. Everything is so well concatenated. The climax musical, the imperiousness of the chancellor on the big screen (great interpretation by John Hurt btw) the anger painted on the citizens' faces. But it's at 3:14 that we reach perfection. The music stops and then the crescendo ... up to the beautiful domino scene. The FALL. It is almost hypnotic. Immense opera by Alan Moore, but James McTeigue was brilliant at knowing how to translate it. Chapeau!
A pandemic and a person killed by the police...
"It's a funny world we live in."
- The Joker
Contagion - Joker - V for Vendetta
Everyone might think we are in this precise moment, but we are by far in the ascension of Sutler. We are not at the end of the story... We're in the beginning...
@@CogitoErgoSumFortis lol okay, Samuel Johnson.
@@CogitoErgoSumFortis correct the Shite has no yet even begun to hit the fan. the truth is i am more fascinated by his ability to see the future. Can you see it. Can you see the past and how its gotten us here. can you see how this is all going to play out? because if you cant go back to sleep your just wasting your time.
Mer-rica
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
Amen to that...
It may come to that one day, soon.
monjiaitaly Unfortunately. Ferguson, Charlotte; just two events in the vast chain of dominoes leading towards ruin. And much of the powers that be either can't or won't do anything. The ones who won't will silence the ones who can't, accelerating the reaction further and further. All the powder keg will need then is a single spark; a single event, no matter how big or how small, that will then plunge this country straight into the depths of oblivion.
most people disagree with those riots when you say blm you ARE saying no one else does. maybe not to black amercans but to every other race.
Joshua Fogg
Oh yeah...I could see a civil war...either the status quo or the right wing would win that fight...
FUCK, the future looks bleak from a pessimist view.
This scene has aged like fine wine
Kept in a French or Italian wine cellar.
Stolen. You thief
@@koiiyhonze9148 oh nooo I'm a thief for stealing a commonly used phrase go ahead arrest me
Absolutely
Just keeps getting better
It’s scary how many of us knew to come back to this...
Predictive programming works from both sides.
@@Ravishrex1 Right.
I will agree, hell of a large influx of people have returned to these clips, it must be a sign that we are changing, perhaps evolving.
Everyone might think we are in this precise moment, but we are by far in the ascension of Sutler. We are not at the end of the story... We're in the beginning...
Hahaha these fucking comments, “woke” clowns
When injustice becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.
Except without an army, rebellion becomes suicide.
Gorillabot3000 not suicide, perhaps hopeless, but not suicide. Suicide is the taking of one's life due to a feeling of worthlessness and hopelessness. Rebellion in the face of impossible odds is sacrifice.
Logan Mainord But is it really sacrafice if you know the odds of you succeeding in your solo rebellion are impossible, and you die in vein?
Gorillabot3000 You don't always need an army for a rebellion. If noone stands with you, they are just not ready to take the leap yet. But the rebel who stands alone will either succeed (not very likely though) or he will be made a martyr, which will inspire follows all around.
"Dying for rebellion against injustice is never in vain, as you have not lived."
-me
TheAndersand2500 Not if they sweep it under the rug.
Also, unless you made a famous speech, or published a book with that quote in it, I'm pretty sure quotation marks aren't neccessary.
Always liked how how the Fingerman has out his badge like he thinks it's gonna save him from his act of murder. Then the last thing that LITERALLY goes through his mind is that swinging pipe wrench.
traxx attaxx I think it was just a preview of would could happen.
traxx attaxx She did die. Many of the people shown in the final scene taking off their masks are dead, like Valerie & Ruth. It's a symbolism, most likely to showcase how every one of them played a vital part in ending Sutler's dictatorship.
Right Alex. It's a symbolic representation of how Evie explained that V was "all of us".
Inus Berard 'symbols are given power by people'
Zinathi Mbarane
Very well put. But then again the people are only as powerful as they will allow themselves. And if you have one person stand forth as a symbol would that not in turn cause people to stand up with said symbol thus empowering THEMSELVES as well as said symbol?
1:38 - My favorite cut of the movie
"This is what he wants"
"What"
"ANARCHY IN THE UK!!!"
wow I never noticed that
I also don't remember noticing that when I saw the film. It is a really good cut though.
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Freedom from an oppressive regime... XD
IIIIII AM AN ANTI CHRIST!
Today, this film is more relevant than ever.
it wasnt relevant with Hong Kong?
@@someguyontheinternet6295 No because it's only relevant if it happens in the US, apparently
It has been relevant to the world since the last couple of years. It has been relevant in Hong Kong, in Chile, in Catalonia since last year, and it is now relevant in America. And it will probably be relevant in even more places in the world in the coming few years.
Everyone might think we are in this precise moment, but we are by far in the ascension of Sutler. We are not at the end of the story... We're in the beginning...
@@XygnusX even in India
"With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid. And when they do, things will turn nasty."
Chills, always.
Very very true...coming soon 2 a democracy near you😉
@@aimeeosmulski1831 if the march on area 51 materializes.... Things will get interesting (and I'm not taking about alien tech... Just that many people showing up at a classified government facility and demanding entrance.)
The shooting of a child is their “shot heard round the world”-suddenly every neighbor, relative, and anyone with a feeling that this CANNOT be tolerated went after the fingerman and then the riots began and revolution soon after.
That's probably my favorite line from the movie.
I think the last domino at the end of the chain is a message telling him that he has to manually do one more thing to complete his plan (the whole picture). In this case it would mean he would have to remove himself (the individual domino) from the picture, i.e. sacrifice himself.
Superb film.
Great skills of observation. ( I had to make that reference.)
Also arguable that it represents McCready, the last domino that needs to fall in order for Norsefire to fall.
I saw it differently. I saw all the dominoes falling, everything going according to plan, yet one remained unfallen.
To me, it was a message that even the greatest of plans can be blocked, when a single domino refuses to fall. It was a message that a single person can make a difference. It was a message that you or I can change even the most seemingly impossible of realities. It was a message of hope... and encouragement.
I saw it as all those dominoes falling were a chain of chaos. V said violence can be used for good. And sometimes if you want things to stop if you want freedom a new world order something has to start and a chain of reactions happen and then it comes to an end. That one piece of the domino was the complete stop of chaos. Like all that violence and protests and fighting eventually paid off and stopped and finally received freedom. in order for revolution to happen someone has to start them and then people will follow, a chain of constant corruption will happen and eventually it will end. The one piece was V, what he stood for, a new world order.
All very good comments guys!
“With so much chaos, someone will do something stupid.” This is the George Floyd situation. This... is happening right now, and it’s terrifying.
Amen.
I immediately remembered this scene of the movie when I saw that. That is what brought me back here.
Was thinking the exact same thing... all those clips of police in the movie you could replace with clips of the riots right now. Such an odd feeling of déjà vu watching this as to what’s going on now
And when they do.... things will turn nasty.
And then Trump will be forced to do the thing he only knows how to do
I love the symbolism of the final domino that doesn't fall: V realizes in that moment that, in order for the plan he's concocted to truly be complete, he himself must die. He's the final piece that needs to be removed in order for all the other pieces to fall. :)
i always just saw it as "one more domino left" as in there only being one more step to go: blow up parliament. i obviously put a lot less thought into than you 2 did.
I think the last domino is Evey, and will she help everything to completion or not.
cmyers92xd1 I think the last dominoe is the last dominoe abd stands for the last dominoe
Fucking brilliant.... Never thought of that
I always got another theory: That final domino represents the wish of Evey Hammond, that's why V makes feel the same that he felt years ago... "What was done to me was monstrous, and they created a monster"
... How did this movie NOT get nominated for a single Oscar!?
EDIT: Wow, thanks for all the likes. :)
It was ahead of its time
@Boel B well mostly because it was released just 4 years after the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the world, so critics weren't happy about a movie which tells us to blow up the parliament.
& also people thought it was unrealistic that a tyrannical authoritarian government would exist in the 21st century *cough* Hong Kong *cough*
So yeah it was far ahead of its time
It’s accurate
Too close to the truth, I expect.
Wait, it didn't? The fuck?
... Well I guess the Oscars are overrated anyway eh?
It's strange. When I was younger the only dystopia I would see would be on the cinema screen or the pages of a book. The more time progresses the more I start to feel that I'm currently living in one.
Those stories are reality told through fiction.
Meanwhile this is basically about to happen after the George Floyd killing. Years of ignoring this issue, unprecedented unemployment, an austere social safety net policy ($1,200), schools closed down, and unrest from stay at home orders during a pandemic all are colliding with a particularly indefensible in custody killing over 7 agonizing minutes have left people with little to lose (no job, no economy, no justice, no social safety net, etc.). We are watching as Trump is doing the only thing he knows how to do...Who knew the coronavirus was basically the preamble in this chain of events.
Why not both?
It's strange. You imagine it would be more extreme but the steps are so slow and banal it's a shock to realize you're not waiting for dystopia to happen, it's already happened.
I feel the same.
This is a documentary now
And with so much chaos... someone will do something stupid... and things will get nasty.
Everyone might think we are in this precise moment, but we are by far in the ascension of Sutler. We are not at the end of the story... We're in the beginning...
It’s really not though
@@CogitoErgoSumFortis I've seen you copy paste this everywhere
@@antolimakrov5925 good
I bet you throughout that entire year, V took all the time setting up those damn dominoes
probably some years before too.
no, the years before he was digging out an old sealed train tube by himself. probably wanting to give up on the plan and move to Fiji
**gets half way through setting up all the dominoes** **random cat knocks them all over** "OH FOR FUCKS SAKE!!!!!"
It probably didn't take him any time at all. Remember, he was injected with drugs that changed him into almost a super human in strength, endurance, speed, intelligence.
Linda Broesky yeah but he's not superman, from what I've seen he's still bound by human limitations but he doesn't allow those limitations to stop him from getting what he wants. Kinda like batman but more grounded in reality
unfortunately v's plan never came to fruition as he spent too much time setting up dominoes and forgot to plan his revolution
JiayoJames He was just passing the time as other people did it for him
😂😂👍🏻👍🏻
Jonathan Eilbeck he’s too careful and calculating for that
You recall he had 20 years of preparation until he made his grand entrance onto the centre stage.
The last year, the 21th year waiting for the 11th hour, he could do what he wanted.
And for an impossibly clever man who redefined the meaning of anarchy as order without hierarchy, without law as the guideline for morality... he could do as he pleased.
Didn't print enough pamphlets
We living this moment now
Revolution?
I think you're right
C&M Punk I was thinking this exactly... George Floyd’s murder began the toppling of the dominoes.
hope so, and the day it happened we'll be on the streets brother and there will be no nations, just the people against the greed, corrupts and tyrans
@@brandonbuzz7075 At which point "Suttler/Trump" will do the only thing he knows how to do" use the military on his own people. damn..
When I was young, "1984" and "Brave New World" were required reading. They still should be, if the aren't. This movie should be required viewing.
In a lot of districts in the USA they still are. And in a lot of districts they are being challenged by book banning idiots.
I read Brave New World at the end of 2021, and 1984 right after. I'm irritated that it wasn't required reading in school. If I ever have children, I'll make sure they read them.
Been reading through it recently and it's scary how dead on accurate it is. Specifically the 2 +2=5 bit. I've literally seen that argument on TV the 2+2 might actually equal 5.
Democrats don't tolerate it, as they identify them as the nazi scum that they are.
I’ve read 1984 for school didn’t really enjoy but I did watch v for vendetta after it was mentioned in my history class and from a few random clips
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The comic and the movie are idiotic wishful thinking. There was no dictatorship in the history of the World that was overthrown by its own people. Only with some foreigner force one way or another. Without it people are just staying oppressed sheep forever.
***** Even if both revolutions of 1917 weren't funded by Central Powers (namely Germany) the Russia's losses in war were the main cause of its fall.
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You're a failure to your parents
@@timurchi1 "there is no dictatorship that is overthrown by it's own people"
*The Cuban Revolution of 1959 has entered the chat*
I am amazed this movie was allowed to be released. It is probably on someone's short list of banned media waiting to be implemented...
+Sight Beyond Sight You should read Brave No World. There is no need for censoring when you can brainwash people into obedience. Violence is useless when planning mass control. Only the illusion of violence (terrorism) will do the job.
+Youssef Rochdi Or you could not play the game at all. Look at alternatives to the game are harder, in every respect because part of the game is keeping people comfortable. Some tips.
Start something that won't finish in your lifetime.
Stop caring what anyone else thinks.
Start caring how everyone else feels.
Whatever you do, involve people where possible, build community not individualism.
Be the guy or girl that makes people turn their head and smile, or comment on because each time you do, you break the status quo just by being alive, you count.
It should be something you celebrate when the masses call you crazy, because crazy is the tool of the masses or a fearful mind to repress something different to itself.
STOP USING LABELS and start questioning every single one you see someone use, their motivations and reasons.
Start validating peoples emotions instead of stopping them, its okay to be angry, sad, fearful, whatever, these are the cues to change something and the impetus to do so.
There you go guys and girls, that's how you start living with some freedom again, peace to you all.
+Mark Joseph Middleton It is a bit suspect I cannot edit my above post, so I'll just drop the final line, the most important.
Know yourself, what makes you tick, know your triggers and why they are there. You'll start to understand how life works for the people around you, as well as yourself the more you ask that question.
+Sight Beyond Sight LOL. No. This is the sort of thing you make to make sheep of people. This is the sort of pabulum you encourage, because it creates predictable and utterly stupid ideas of what rebellion means. This is what the Idiocracy creates to keep the sheep thinking what it wants them to think. How can you not see that?
Matthew Reynolds What I see is a populace waiting for a super-hero to fix it all for them. They show modest support but when that hero falls, they scurry back under the rocks and hide.
This movie is a masterpiece. And WAY ahead of its time.
You can feel it coming, can't you?
"Then, all V will need to do is keep his word" words of a poet
The first domino
Classic V, playing with dominoes when there's a revolution going on...
like nero fiddling
I can't believe how many mlp:fim pics I've been seeing lately...
RISE UP, EVERYPONY!!!
Symbolic, wouldn't you say?
Just waiting for the pieces to fall into place...just like Finch said.
V: "The revolution can wait. I'm working on a visual metaphor here!"
Agent Smith rebelling against Authority. Oh the Irony!
Eventho it's 5 years later... Agent Smith rebelled against Matrix as well.
And sent forces to Helm’s Deep.
And winston a tyrant
the detail of the government man who shoots the girl having red eyes as the people attack him. as if he was stressed and acted irrational, and once he realised what hed done, he cries, then the people come for him, he wipes the tears, having to appear strong and police-like.. such a good detail
I saw that too. They could have demonised him “oh look they’re evil child killers” but in this instance at least, they were more nuanced.
He knows us better than we know ourselves. That and he has seemingly infinite financial resources, including access to high explosives, and a high-quality manufacturing facility. Those masks and cloaks had to be produced sonewhere.
I like to think the factories knew but didnt cared. And the goverment was only happy to see numbers grow in paper.
V had forbidden things. So I Guess he was leading the black market and had money
V stole priceless and forbidden works of art from the vaults of a totalitarian militaristic government, and he stole top-quality food from the High Chancellor's personal supply chain. Stealing money - or selling some of what he stole - would hardly be more difficult. Once he had the funds, he could purchase anything he wanted from anywhere inside or outside of the UK, and he could spread those orders out over numerous suppliers and over a period of years to defer suspicion, since he'd been planning and building up to these events for a decade. Although we only see one example of it, V is clearly capable of disguising himself and interacting with others undiscovered. In carrying out a 10-year-long plan, he had undoubtedly forged many connections with dissidents inside and outside the government, as well as the kind of black-market sources that even the most crushing of totalitarian governments never manage to squash. I suspect that he had many false identities through which he acquired what he needed.
In the books V wasn’t a single person but several people working together. This was one of the main changes to film because V had to have a single voice he didn’t need on ink & paper
@@FrostyGerardo-kr7xsyep, especially manufacturers in China. They'll do anything at the right price.
Gimme the FACKING money!
Arthur Morgan will be proud.
ANAKY IN UK
@@averagecoloniser4586 yeee XD😂😂😂😁
This scene is arguably among the most powerful metaphors in recent cinematic history. You never know in advance which event is the first domino...
the time has come
Ignorance is weakness.
War is hell.
Freedom a necessity.
And revolution is a duty
Peace is Freedom
War is Slavery
Knowledge is Liberty
Funny how the difference views of that inverted phrase only makes it stronger.
War is not Hell. For in Hell, the sinners and wrongdoers are punished, but in war. In war it is the innocent that suffer.
Goes harder when it's the opposite of the original quote from 1984.
The Dominoes are falling right now.
*sets down last domino* Fucking finally....*Opens the door allowing a gust of wind in and knocks all of them down prematurely* V: FUCK
V for Vendetta hits different in 2020/1
This America right now. A powder keg ready to ignite.
America has always been a nation of rebels and rebellion. That’s the whole reason it exists.
This past week has just been a warmup for the inevitable civil war.
Right now, it looks to me like the fuse is already lit. it's either going to go boom or somebody who actually has some brains in their skull is going to cut the fuse before it gets that far.
only liberal cities, the media has a way of manipulating you to believing it's the entire country. but for most of the country is life as usual
@@danmeads6729 allowing an audit of votes with Republican and Democrat witnesses to prevent tampering ?
Edit: on how to prevent civil war
How many times do I have to say? V is NOT a terrorist! People don't fear him, they're joining him, so I believe the correct term is "revolutionary".
+Karmagician People are joining ISIS.
+Karmagician I think the word is rebellious
Michael Ziegler
There is no double sided meaning to the word "terrorist". There is a very clear definition, and V is a terrorist which is someone who uses violence or intimidation with political aims. Just because you use terrorism against bad people doesn't make it not terrorism.
+Europa X If the definition of terrorist is exactly that, most of the world's politicians have been mislabelled.
Good point.
V himself was both the first domino, and the last.
was also my wish, that and time travel
This movie was ahead of its time
June 2020 brought me here.
This scene feels much less badass when I picture V pouring over that pile of dominoes for days to line everything up just right for the sake of symbolism. Its like, dude, don't you have a revolution to get ready for? Are you really this bored?
It probably help him meditate and go over the plan in his head. Stacking dominos can be very therapeutic.
Awgichew stacking dominos is therapeutic? yeah shure until they start falling when they are not suposed to, it will drive the person mad.
niels718 Well, to be fair, V isn't exactly number 1 in the sanity department.
It's not like he has anything better to do. He doesn't go out much, he's not worried about Evey, and well why not?
He probably spent months preparing that, we just see the abridged version.
This scene hits different now
As someone who's worked in postal and courier work, hundreds of thousands of identical parcels all showing up for every address in town simultaneously would have us contacting the police long before they ever got delivered. Also it'd slow us right the fuck down stopping at every house.
Id wager V was smarter than that. He probably shipped them randomly over a good frame of time and it was only when the Inspector got his that they began to look into it closely. The scenes we're seeing in this clip aren't taking place across days but weeks and probably months.
wouldn’t be surprised if some of the people in the postal service were in on it
From a logistical standpoint it makes no sense, but I see the masks as a metaphor/representation for/of V's ideas rather than literal physical deliveries or objects, which everyone is receiving and wearing (concurring with).
It also explains how "dead" characters come back at the end, because while they may have been physically killed the ideas they held (represented by the mask) had not.
I like to think that over the Year that V had been working on this plan the people in London all(or at least most)had come round to Vs way of thinking, so much so that when this happened the people in the postal service didn't report it as most of them were V sympathizers
It's worth noting that this is happening in a totalitarian state. It's entirely likely that the paperwork for them is immaculate, the shipper some middle functionary in the government who's just high enough up that nobody is willing to question it on face value. After all, the State set it up, right? They know best.
My favourite thing about this film is that the dictator is Winston, from 1984.
V is a retort to 1984, re-empowering art, individual agency, proles, defiance, and rage.
I bet someone had to paint all those dominoes...
And set them up. And then someone "accidentally" knocked them over. So the domino man quit. And they had to hire another one.
+biggingeryeti There's a thing called CGI these days
+aledmorgan92 They weren't CGI. It was 22,000 dominoes assembled in the pattern by 4 professionals over a period of 200 hours.
+tythorn13 And set them up. And when the moment came to take the shot, the cameraman forgot to take the cap off the lens. So the second domino man quit. And they had to hire another one.
+John W no I think at that point he would have just shot the cameraman then himself
Voila! In view humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate.
This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the “vox populi” now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin, van guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition.
The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous.
Verily this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it’s my very good honour to meet you and...
you may call me V.
Nice, well done!
Beautiful seres great scene
Raggle Daggle So many words, so many 'v's!
So many v's, not one vagina. 😂
+ResistiVe
Know
Room
Rojier
Dude really just spent like 10 hours setting up dominoes.
This is the perfect example of the domino effect. When one falls the rest will follow.
No matter who you are never shoot a kid in front of people and expect to get away with it.
Except in the states, if you're a police officer and the kid is of a different race than your own. Then it's only self defense.
Katherine Forrester I did not think that through did I? More reason to dislike white people then.
Ed Lazaro More like more reason to dislike the current state of belief that not all men (or women) are created equal, and that the life of one person is somehow worth less than that of another based on cultural differences. I myself have white skin, but that doesn't make me prejudiced against anyone.
Katherine Forrester Sorry, you are right, not all white people are bad every race has their good and bad people. The rich and powerful that put these beliefs out are the ones to blame.
Ed Lazaro Not all of the Rich and Powerful are bad either.
First: Totally awesome movie!
Remember that V had completely penetrated the government computer systems. V likely spent months beforehand forging official permissions for all those masks and set them to trigger the day they arrived. I'm more impressed he had them MADE undetected than shipped undetected. Maybe came from overseas?
Or manufactured years in advance. All of the work he did to prepare took at least a decade. It seems like he started planning this whole thing as soon as he escaped Lark Hill.
China produced. Answers a lot of questions.
@@SlicerJengiven the nature of the UK government in this movie it seems unlikely shipping things from China would be possible
@@jamescuttler8047 No, probably persuaded a norsefire connected politician to import, using their company.... [see current uk politics and PPE]
Oh my god this movie is literally about what’s happening now
I saw this coming ages ago. Felt like inspector Finch there. And here we are...
Not really
The Dominos have fallen
Anarchy in the UK.
RIGHT.....NOOOWWW! HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
You can't create anything without willing to destroy.
Josh Lopez Better yet, everywhere right now.
As I read this comment the guy said it.
Its every where now.
saw this movie for the first time on netflix today. VERY glad i did. this movie is a work of art.
Relevant.
De ja vu
This is happening right now.
really it's happening now?
based
This scene never gets old. It's so powerful and mesmerizing
Exactly! Well acted and the use of of mixing the timelines was cool to watch.
So... The beginning of 2021. All we need is a leader and the domino's will fall into place.
Well this is relevant
15 years later and this is so eerily realistic now.
Lots of people saying this is what 2020 looked like... if what's happened in 2021 so far is any indication then I think it is a lot more similar...
15 years after this movie is still a masterpiece
This movie is a part of those long chains of events.
When you so pissed about a single domino not falling so you decide to blow up the parliament
You missed the symbolism, V represents the one single solitary domino that doesn't fit neatly with there rest. The only one standing when the rest fall, the only one that doesn't have a place within the new world he aims to create. The odd man out, as always.
Seems legit
This scene has always given me goosebumps.
The message in this movie applies for today than ever before
John Hurt was an incredible actor. We lost a good one.
Funfact: he also played in 1984.
@@lennertcornette Certainly the main reason he was cast for that role. For the irony.
Even being infiltrated by a hostile alien organism John shines.
He was great in the movie From the hip.
this scene has aged better than any wine can ever manage, makes even the wine of the GOD OF WINE seem cheap
Dionysus would slap you lol
Nah I'm kidding he'd share a bottle and start the party
And he’d sit and watch Thespis create magic!
Nah, it's overly dramatic and pretentious.
I think the final domino is V himself. He removes himself from the equation to make way for the new world - he even gives the lever to Evey.
That’s because those who set the direction of the future shouldn’t be the ones who make the decision of should we start it. It should be up to those who will live in that future to make that choice. We give you the tools and set the direction it’s up to the future to initiate it
ANARCHY IN THE UK!! gunshot*
I love that for some reason lol
Jose Martin that's what the whole movie is about
In 2018: ANARCHY IN THE UK! *draws unlicensed butterknife*
Campus Maximus Because you'll believe any lie you tell yourself. Just out of interest, if you ever imagined you were Hitler, why would you believe the Jews were evil? If you want to know who the guilty are, you need only look into a mirror.
Campus Maximus
The complete opposite. When they rise up against their Orwellian leftist government who impose hate speech laws to stop people from discussing their failures.
Btw, calling anyone who disagrees with you a nazi isn't debating. It's just pathetic.
This montage is fucking art. The most cohesive amalgamation of storytelling elements-music, editing, writing-all wound tightly around the scene between Finch and Dascombe. And the way the scene’s tension is built-with its false release of “it was only a feeling”-a semi-sweet joke couched before part 2 of the rising action of Orwellian themes, culminating in the true climax of the final Domino cascade, a visual representation of the unstoppable force paradox.
3:46 that’s how cops who shoot unarmed people ought to be treated
Watching in June 2020 and everything here is relevant. :(
Never forgive,
Never forget,
Never for fun…..
This scene has taken on a whole new meaning (1/7/2021)
I didn't know London was in Minnesota... It looks like everything was written before, twenty years ago. Maybe there is a common scenarist between V For Vendetta and The Simpsons.
Apool
The graphic novel this story was inspired in was released in the 80s.... Just to dissapoint you further
@@CogitoErgoSumFortis Yes, yes, I know, but Alan Moore could have been visionnary. :) I know he also set that to give a reference to the "fascistic" Thatcher era and the the film makers prefered to use a terroristic context, etc.
Those who still haven't watched this movie must watch it ASAP. Or else the government will ban it.
It's just a feeling 😐
When there's no change, everything, eventually, becomes a documentary.
My god this had aged well. So relatable right now in 2020
V really likes his dominoes
The look he gives when the things stops falling.
'FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU'
Lol that's what I was thinking:p
2020 the movie...
Part 1
@@jmendoza4354 oof
@@jmendoza4354 of 172
That movie sucked lol.
@@angrywaffle2860 I hope you're not talking about V for vendetta
The first time I watched this scene the world was normal and this was a movie, now a decade later is a reflection of society.
We slowly saw it happen, and no one ever stood up and said enough.
Change your perspective. If you're younger than 40, the war was 'lost' in the 1970's. You only thought things were normal.
Things seem chaotic because people are standing up. With the end of 2023 a few days away, the dominos are beginning to accelerate.
Everyone can see the dominos falling one after another. Only the masterminds can foresee its conclusion.
@@stevenrayson6804 we can see where it’s going unfortunately many who do are powerless to stop it. If you ask me I wouldn’t, this world has its problems and sometimes you’ve got to destroy something to rebuild it better
I've always liked the significance of the last domino. He has set the pieces for the future but it's not his decision. It's the next people's decision to pursue that path. V set it up to fix the problem,but she as the future of the action taken must make the choice. The past will only teach if the future listens. It is the choice we must all make. Do you chose to be held down and back by your past, or do you chose to break that wall and move forward.?
Move forward
The end of the scene never fails to fill me with melancholy. Seeing V pick up the last domino piece and wistfully look at it, I've always felt like he was contemplating his own self. The last piece, supporting the outcome of an entire chain reaction made of hundreds more, still standing while all the others fell; A key element, so important and determining, and yet... absolutely alone. A perfect metaphor of his whole life, both brilliant and incredibly sad. It shows how an idea can easily support a nation... but the man behind it has the beaviest burden of all to carry.
That's an interesting take on it. When I watched it I saw it as he was the last piece, which had to fall to complete the picture. Which of course he does, he sacrifices himself to complete the plan as his work was done.
Fun fact:
The "V" Who topples the stones, is actually Robin Paul Weijers, the guy behind domino day, throughout the whole scene!
What?
Exactly what I said above.
Sorry for some reason I thought you were doing a V skit.
Yes.... its time
1:38 Come now Lestrade, It's so obvious even you could figure it out.
Classic Gary Lestrade. No...Gareth?
Greg
chaos is a ladder ;)
2:13 My reaction to the Bioshock series...
BenHopkins1000 "Constants and variables..."
BenHopkins1000 - & the fall of the series so early
one of the reasons why this movie is genius. Absolute perfection, one of the greatest of all time
Besides the point that people come back because of the whole drama thats going on, can we just appreciate this 5 min. clip? It‘s a artistic masterpiece, really one of the best movies ever made, no cap
Revolution in the face of tyranny, is duty!
The Deja Vu in the US today (06/01/2020) is real
BS i saw that movie too, it was Denzel Washington in that movie =)
This is my favourite scene in the movie. It’s one of the best montages I’ve ever seen.
A great documentary!
One of my favorite movie scenes of all time.
The chills. No matter how many times I see it, I always shiver. Everything is so well concatenated. The climax musical, the imperiousness of the chancellor on the big screen (great interpretation by John Hurt btw) the anger painted on the citizens' faces. But it's at 3:14 that we reach perfection. The music stops and then the crescendo ... up to the beautiful domino scene. The FALL. It is almost hypnotic. Immense opera by Alan Moore, but James McTeigue was brilliant at knowing how to translate it. Chapeau!
You probably need to wear a sweater
Btw the plot of this movie took place in 2020
...*'o O' ooohhh*...
Each year that passes makes this scene even more real feeling