"V For Vendetta" – 2005. Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Steven Rea, John Hurt, Stephen Fry, Tim Piggott-Smith, Roger Allam.
After a devastating virus wipes out over 100,000 people, with the chaos and mayhem that ensues, the population of England reacts with fear and elects a fascist government regime to restore order. Order comes with a price though — the loss of liberty. A mysterious man named V, (Weaving) decked out in a Guy Fawkes mask and wig, and some amazing abilities with knives, bombs and martial arts, sets about on a mission to single handedly overthrow the Nazi-like regime and spur the population into a revolution. He has the help of an every day working girl named Evie Hammond (Portman) who inadvertently winds up as his partner in crime after he saves her life one night in a dark alley. A weary but tireless inspector (Rea) is on V's case, but as events unfold and a long list of people with connections to something called the Larkhill Detention Center begin turning up dead, it soon becomes apparent that there's more going on than just overthrowing the government. How are the events at Larkhill connected to the virus that killed over 100,000 people, and the fascist government that was spawned as a result?
"V For Vendetta," based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, is brought to us courtesy of the Wachowski brothers who have producers credits on this film. Even though they didn't direct it, "V" still has the look and feel of the original Matrix movie in many ways, from V's head to toe black get up, trenchcoat and boots, loaded down with weapons and some serious fighting skillzz ;) to the color quality, the hypnotic and engaging way it's filmed, and even the score that plays throughout. (Take note of the scene when V steps off the elevator in the BTN studio, about to kick some ass...it's straight out of the first Matrix, even down to the sound effects. Also, the theme of "revolution" calls to mind Matrix Revolutions.)
The story of "V For Vendetta" is multi-layered, which makes it interesting. The most obvious surface layer involves revolting against a fascist government regime and overthrowing the corruption. A second layer involves the theme of "coincidence" and "connection." Connective coincidences appear throughout the movie, along with references to them by various characters. Everything is connected, as realized by Inspector Finch at the end of the movie in his big moment of realization. The third layer involves mind control symbolism, with its symbols and themes woven throughout the movie. It reminds me of a multiple image hologram. Turn it one way, see one thing. Turn it another, and a different picture emerges. I'm curious as to what Alan Moore, the original author, had/has going on in his life that he was able to come up with these things for his graphic novel.
The mind control symbolism
V is a character who is broken and transformed during his time spent at the Larkhill Detention Center for undesirables, where victims are brutalized and experimented on like meat. Most of the victims die. But V not only lives, a genetic anomaly with unusual blood properties, he also develops unusual mental and physical abilities and lightning fast reflexes, becoming a new person who "could no longer remember who he was or where he was from," as Doctor Delia Surridge from the Center notes in her journal. All of this brings to mind the government sponsored MK Ultra/mind control black ops projects and satanic ritual abuse where children of certain bloodlines are brutalized and traumatized until they form alternate split off personas and new identities, sent back out into the world with their new programming, used as pawns in somebody else's agenda. Speaking from personal knowledge and research, I can also add that many targets of government mind control projects will have higher than average intellectual capabilities and develop unusual..."abilities" such as photographic memory, lightning fast reflexes, psychic powers and so on. So this definitely seems to parallel.
V later engages in a similar torture/reconditioning treatment on Evie, taking her against her will and imprisoning her in a cell — all for her own good, mind you <!-- s;) -->;)<!-- s;) --> – so that she can learn to overcome her fear. When Evie first emerges from her cell and realizes that V was behind it all, she has an emotional breakdown. But she not only gets over it, becoming the fearless warrior, but she later returns to V to help him, and even falls in love with him. I thought that was a bit twisted in some ways, and reminded me of the "romantic entanglement" between victim and handler mentioned in my "Labyrinth" write up.
V's new, alternate persona is the "agent provocateur." It's all another variation of what we find in "Fight Club." After years of training and waiting for the right time, he begins his methodical plan of killing everybody who was connected to Larkhill, and setting into motion events that will eventually dismantle the current fascist, corrupt government. His free time is single mindedly devoted to fight training — knives, swords, and martial arts – and putting his plans into action. That is his only admitted purpose for living.
So with that established, let's review some of the mind control symbolisms I noticed in the movie.

The mask and mirror. We are introduced to V while he puts his mask on in front of his mirror, getting ready to head out. Later on in the movie, V takes his mask off and throws it against the mirror, shattering the glass. As noted previously in this section, masks and mirrors are major mind control symbolisms. See "Labyrinth" and "Eyes Wide Shut" for two examples in this section. As Gordon Dietrich says in the movie, "You wear a mask for so long you begin to forget who you were beneath it." Mask symbolism, as used in mind control, refers to the masking of the various split off alternate personas from each other. Mirrors are often used in conjunction with drugs and hypnotic programming to create the illusion of a second alternate persona within the mind of the target. Because the target is drugged up and dazed, they can be convinced to view their reflection as an actual secondary persona.
The Key. Just as Dr. McCabe refers to David as being "the key" in "Vanilla Sky" (coming up in a short bit) Dr. Delia Surridge also refers to V as being "the key." She says "...whoever he was, he is the key..." So many of these movies either feature physical keys or make mention of somebody being the key....
Phoenix Rising. Just like in "Fight Club," our main hero V experiences a transformation in personality that's likened to the phoenix. His old self dies, and a new persona is born, rising from the fire — quite literally. V emerges from a huge explosion and fire at Larkill, walking through the flames letting out a primal yell of rage. And just like "Fight Club" this transformation results in a persona hellbent on destroying the society he sees around him. In mind control programming, the phoenix rising symbolism is quite popular as it refers to the rising up of the new, alternate persona taking over the mind of the victim.
So, keeping in mind in V's masked visage, with his emergence from Larkhill – the abuse, torture center – in a huge fire, with a new personality that could no longer remember who and what he used to be, here's an excerpt from Fritz Springmeier's "The Illuminati Formula to Create a Totally Undetectable Mind Control Slave" which says:
"Fire/burning torture is used in the porcelain face programming....The memories of abuse are then hypnotically hid behind the masks.....This means that these alters have via torture and hypnosis lost their own faces!"
Project Mayhem "space monkey" army look. Evie is also transformed from an every day working girl who lives in fear, to a fearless warrior with a shaved head, doing her part to dismantle society. Very much like the Project Mayhem "space monkey" army with their shaved heads in "Fight Club."
Agent Provocateur programming. As mentioned earlier, V has the agent provocateur attitude as found in Fight Club, stealing, killing, blowing things up, and instigating disobedience, wanting to destroy the corrupt society he sees around him through violence and force.
Suicide/Self Destruct Programming. And like in "Fight Club" and "The Manchurian Candidate" the hero/pawn must die via "self destruct programming" after being used to fulfill the agenda. While the lead characters in the other two movies attempt to kill themselves but don't succeed, V knowingly goes up against Creedy and his men who all have guns, and sacrifices his own life in order to take them out using only his knives, martial arts, and lightning fast reflexes. Relating to this we have..........
The dominoes. There's a (red and black colored) domino knock down scene forming a large "V" towards the end of the movie, just before V heads out to blow up Parliament and face his inevitable death/suicide. Turn the hologram image one way and it represents the connectedness of all things, one of the sub-themes of the movie. Turned another way, with the knowledge that dominoes are used in mind control, and it has another meaning. Again, quoting from Fritz Springmeier:
"The dominoes were used for coding, but they also had the programming feature of being able to tie alters together so that if the system is tampered with out of sequence, a domino effect would take place This domino effect is for one program to set off another program to set off another program. Soon the Monarch slave's mind is trying to deal with dozens of suicide programs running simultaneously..."
Shadows. A minor one, but V calls his home "The Shadow Gallery." An interesting choice of words. It's indeed gallery-like, for its collection of banned art, books, music, trinkets and do-dads, but what does shadow refer to? Shadow also appeared in "Eyes Wide Shut," with the book entitled "Shadows of the Mirror" on Domino's desk. In mind control, possibly refers to the shadow self, or alternate persona.
Other interesting, non-mind control symbolism
11:00. The time on the clock at the beginning of the movie when Evie is ready to head out the door into the night, where she will eventually cross paths with V, changing the course of her life. 11 is a master number, representing "the initiate," and is amply fitting for Evie as she is the fearful, naive initiate at the beginning of the movie, about to have her world turned upside down to the point of eventually becoming a different person.
3:30. (or rather, 33) the time left on the bomb clock when the camera first pans on it. 33 is another master number, important in Freemasonry. Think of the 33rd degree in the Scottish rite of Freemasonry, the highest level one can attain. I'm thinking it could be a marker of sorts slipped in to indicate who was behind the making of this movie, or, it actually refers to Jesus himself, who (supposedly) died at 33. Christians believe that Jesus died for the sins of mankind, sacrificing himself for the benefit of all – as V does in a way at the end of the movie.
The "V" symbol. "Coincidentally," the red V logo is strikingly similar to the Baphomet goat head's pentagram used in occult practices. All that's missing are the ears, which form the other two triangles of the pentagram. It's also reminiscent of the red spray painted V in the 1983-84 TV miniseries "V," about reptilian aliens that come to earth and the resulting Nazi-like mentality that begins taking over the population who wear their red and black uniforms and fall in line with them. (See also the image of Frank the (Baphomet/V) Bunny from Donnie Darko.)

The Cross of Lorraine. The flag of the fascist government is a red and black version of the Cross of Lorraine. The Cross of Lorraine has a long and meaningful history and is considered one of the many "Brotherhood" symbolisms of those who run the planet. It has its origins in France, and Joan of Arc was known to carry a flag with this symbol on it in battle; In "V for Vendetta," the government is always mindful to point out all the outside enemies and how "England Will Prevail!" so it's fitting that they would then adopt this symbol to represent their battle mentality of prevailing. However....the way the meaning gets twisted around, with the enemy masquerading as the savior government pretending to be at battle with outside forces parallels the way the Nazis hoodwinked the German population and took the swastika, originally an eastern spiritual symbol with positive meanings, and twisted it all around into something with an evil meaning.
The roses. Another Brotherhood symbolism, calling to mind the Rosicrucians, or, the "order of the rose cross."
Red, black and white. Common occult color scheme found in many meaningful movies with hidden agendas and secondary symbolic meanings.
"Ride the Long Black Train." Song by Richard Hawley that plays on Inspector Finch's alarm clock radio the morning of November 5th. I jotted down the lyrics and Googled them afterwards to see if they had any significant meaning and reason for why this song in particular was used in the movie. After reading the lyrics it's all extremely fitting, especially the line "Take me home black train..." After V finally dies from the wounds sustained by Creedy's men, Evie puts him on the bomb-laden train, places a rose on his chest, and pulls the lever to send the train off into Parliament to blow it up. Also the words "rose," "shadows" "tolling bells" "the city" "deep of the night" and "clock tower" all appear in the song, tying into various things in the movie, which is interesting, considering the song came out several years before the movie.
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