I saw the movie last Friday. I didn’t read the graphic novel so I don’t know if the movie is better, worse or just different from the movie. I liked the movie very much.

I too want to read the script, have the lyrics of the songs played etc, etc.

I hope the DVD comes out soon. I would like to see the movie again and again, looking for themes and references.

Things that I have noticed in a first viewing.

V as the gentlemen-anarchist, the sophisticated bomber. It reminded me of all the highly educated rebels of the past, the founders of the USA, WWII resistance organised by Universities, intellectuals going to fight in the Spanish Civil War. It also reminds me of the Greek philosophers, who followed reason, liked to party, but also performed their duty to the city by joining the army when necessary.

V’s hide-out. Packed with art. When totalitarian regimes come to power, art is always one of the first things to go. Think of Hitler and the destruction of “entartete kunst”, decadent art, basically all art that was not in line with Nazi ideology. Communist regimes regarded some art as western decadence. During the Cultural Revolution in China, artist practising traditional arts where sent to the country to be re-educated trough labour. I won’t even begin to talk about Muslim fundamentalists and their view of art. To be a freethinker is to appreciate art, to give freedom to the artists.

In the same line: the jukebox with jazz-songs. Jazz is an American invention. Moreover it is a mix of different influences not a product of “one pure race”. To play jazz records was considered in some regimes the paramount of being pro-American. Of course “Cry Me a River” goes well with the vengeance theme.

During one of the murders by V, I think I heard some notes of Beethoven’s fifth (V !), also called “Fate”. The first notes where also the call sign of the BBC-radio broadcasts to occupied Europe in WWII.

The quote about ideas and bullets. There was a song sung by freethinkers imprisoned in concentration camps called ‘ Die Gedanken sind Frei” – Thougts are free .

There was some voice-over and music during the credits, but I couldn’t make out what.

 That's why I want to read the script. I can take very good things out of the movie (how many movies asks men to turn on their minds? to think about ideas? to engage in literature? to take pleasure in breakfast, or dancing?), although I totally disagree with V's end "nihilistic" choice.