How Does V For Vendetta Change
To achieve a new world, revolution must always precede it. This can be true for any fiction that involves a tyrannical or authoritarian government, and people who wish to displace these governments. Historically, revolution have always heralded change. In V for Vendetta, this is exactly the means that V uses to overthrow the fascism government that presides over England, and thoroughly believes that “violence can be used for good” (V for Vendetta, 38:37). However, in the film Pumzi, Asha makes a discovery that can change the world she lives in for the better, but rather than attempting to achieve this better world through violence, she proves that peaceful methods can be much more effective.
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The people in this society know of their past and how the Water War is what put them in the situation they are in. With this community knowing of their past and how they got there, it takes away the possibility of erasing their history, and therefore, erasing their past. After Asha had received a soil sample that was meant to be ‘impossible’ due to the council insisting that “the outside [was] dead” (07:51), she plants a seed known as the “Maitu (mother) Seed” as shown at the beginning of the film (00:47), which means “our truth” in the Kikuyu language. The name of the seed that we are shown at the beginning is not only telling us that the seed will be of great importance in the film, but it also foreshadows Asha’s role of being a ‘mother’ to the tree that will forever change the world she lives in. While V’s quest begins and ends with destruction and leaves us with a sense of dread about what might happen after the events of the film, Asha’s quest begins with a dream of the three and, consequently, of life, and ends with the rebirth of the soil’s liveliness. Though by the end of Pumzi, we still remain unsure of what might happen, we are given this sense that things might turn out for the
In the film V for Vendetta, we understand through …show more content…
The people in this society know of their past and how the Water War is what put them in the situation they are in. With this community knowing of their past and how they got there, it takes away the possibility of erasing their history, and therefore, erasing their past. After Asha had received a soil sample that was meant to be ‘impossible’ due to the council insisting that “the outside [was] dead” (07:51), she plants a seed known as the “Maitu (mother) Seed” as shown at the beginning of the film (00:47), which means “our truth” in the Kikuyu language. The name of the seed that we are shown at the beginning is not only telling us that the seed will be of great importance in the film, but it also foreshadows Asha’s role of being a ‘mother’ to the tree that will forever change the world she lives in. While V’s quest begins and ends with destruction and leaves us with a sense of dread about what might happen after the events of the film, Asha’s quest begins with a dream of the three and, consequently, of life, and ends with the rebirth of the soil’s liveliness. Though by the end of Pumzi, we still remain unsure of what might happen, we are given this sense that things might turn out for the