While watching the film, there was a reference to the “Vault of Objectionable Materials.” I knew I had heard this before in another film or a book. It drove me nuts.
Hmm, not 1984, not Brave New World... Aha! I suddenly got it! In the 2002 film Equilibrium, when items were collected through raids, they were filed by entering them into a large database where they were either stored or destroyed. They refer to this as a “vault of obejctionable materials” among other things.
Also in Equilibruim, the Council eliminates war by forcibly surpressing emotions. Like in V for Vendetta, there is an undistorted (but incomplete) version of history. Only are the horrific acts attributable to emotions ever described by “Father” in detail, leading to additional conditioning by which the Librians obediently continue to take their shots and accept their society as the necessary sacrifice.
On a side note, I don’t think that The Chancellor’s role in V for Vendetta is not a direct reference to 1984’s Big Brother as much as it was to a dictatorship such as Hitler’s (as a few have already posted here).
