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ok i'm so boh liao now i'm gonna include my favourite scene from v from vendetta. so evey is this young girl who lived on a totalitarian society, and was taken in by v (the superhero). he threw her out, where she met this guy and they became lovers. than the govt thugs came and killed her lover like they did to fer father many years before. she tried to take revenge but ended up in a prison, where she was systematically and brutally tortured, and forced to sign a false confession about v, threatened with death. she chose to die instead of lose her principals. later, she was released and found out that it was v all along, torturing her himself. after scolding him, this is where the argument leads to....

evey: you say u want to set me free and u put me in a prison.

v: u were already in a prison. u've been in a prison all your life.

evey: shut up! i don't want to hear it! i wasn't in a prison! i was happy.

v: happiness is a prison, evey. happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

evey: that's warped! that's warped and evil and wrong! i went to live with somebody. i..i was in love with him. i was happy. if that's a prison, then i don't CARE!

v: don't u? your lover lived in the prison we were all born into, and was forced to rake the dregs of that world for his living. he knew affection and tenderness but only briefly... eventually, one of the other inmates stabbed him with a cutlass and he drowned upon his own blood. is that it, evey? is that the happiness worth more than freedom?... I didn't put u in a prison, evey, i just showed u the bars.

evey: you're wrong! it's just life, that's all! it's how life is! it's what we've got to put up with. it's all we've got. what gives you the right to decide it's not good enough?

v: you were born into a prison. u've been in a prison so long, you no longer believe there's a world outside.

evey starts running from v.

evey: shut up! you're mad! i don't want to hear it!

v: that's bcos you're afraid, evey. you're afraid bcos u can feel freedom closing in on u. u're afraid bcos freedom is terrifying...

evey: i can't feel anything! there's nothing to feel! leave me alone!

v: don't back from it evey. part of u understands the truth as part pretends not to.

evey clutches to a pillar, broken.

v: woman, this is the most important moment of yout life. don't run away from it.

evey starts to choke, grasping her throat.

evey: i don't know what... you're... oh God. oh God. i can't... breathe... asthma... when i was a little... cuh...girl...

v: good. you're almost there. go closer. feel the shape of it. your mother died. they took your father away. there's a little girl, evey, and she's screaming...

evey: a-huh... aa--huhh... oh, make it stop... what... are u doing to me? oh, i can't... breathe... auhhuhhh....

v: u were in a cell, evey. they offered u a choice between the death of your principles and the death of your body.

evey: oh, oh. i can feel it... i'm going to die, i'm going to burst...

v: u said u rather die. u faced the fear of your own death, and u were calm and still. try to feel now what u felt then...

evey (crying): i...uhhh...oh God... i felt... uhh... i... felt...

evey: like.... an angel.

evey: oh God, v. oh God, i'm so scared, i'm so cold.... what's happening to me?

v: the door of the cage is open, evey. all that u feel is the wind from the outside. don't be afraid.

yup. that's the scene. maybe u won't find it good but i find it dammmm good. the book is very loaded with ideas like this. maybe this'll help u to understand my personal profile a little more. sometimes opening your eyes is painful and terrifying. but if u open them long enough, u'll see the outside world, and it'll set u free. u will soar upon wings of love and freedom.