More on 'V for Vendetta'

A lot of people who see the movie will link the High Chancellor and President Bush. I will simply say that if you want to read that into the movie, you can, but I don't believe it's there.

The film serves as a warning, just as '1984' was a warning. "Beware letting this happen." To equate a still very free America with the England in the movie is absurd.

I do want to point out one thing I find interesting, however.

"1984" was set 35 years in the future from the time it was published. "V for Vendetta" is set less than 15 years later. Does that mean the filmmakers believe we are much closer to the dystopian society of "Vendetta" than Orwell believed we were to the world of "1984"? Or do they want to point out how quickly things can change. Hitler became chancellor of the Nazi party in 1921 and it was only 12 years later that he was appointed Chancellor. Some things just don't take that long.