It is hard to even begin to imagine what we would do if our world was coming to an end but thanks to the dystopian narratives, they do all of the worrying for us. When we watch a film of a zombie apocalypse or a world disaster we tend to leave thinking of all the “what if’s”. What if flesh-eating zombies spread like wildfire throughout our world and we were left to defend ourselves? We are constantly itching for more movies and T.V. shows to answer these questions for us and ease our worry but what if the disaster that hit the world was only affecting your world? In some movies they “don’t force the same kind of reckoning on their protagonists (or their audiences), but they identify the same anxieties” (Scott 3). One of the worst feelings is feeling helpless; that no matter what you do, it will never be good enough and you will always be under some kind of control. A film with this similar feeling is “V for Vendetta” directed by James McTeigue. This film depicts London in the near future in great turmoil with its government. The viewer is welcomed to a dystopia in which the government not only controls its citizens, but removes their privacy, civil rights, general freedoms, and even regulates what types of foods, jobs, and materials one is allowed to have. No matter what the people did to resist this controlling government, they were suppressed time and time again. In this film, the people needed to lose all hope in order to gain it all back and find the courage fight back against their oppressive government.
As the plot moves along in the film, Chancellors Sutler’s actions to reach this dystopia are revealed. His use of biological warfare against the “weak” minorities of England was not only violent, but cruel, heartless, and sickening. His intentions were not for the well being of his country, but for his own selfish greed and control. Sutler was able to take advantage of the chaos, uncertainty, and fear within the world and manipulate the lives of his...