[beezdotcom]

She also wasn't going to some illicit rendezvous with a co-worker, she was going out to prostitute herself because socialist economic policies had pretty much destroyed the London economy.

And that's my problem with the movie, vs. the book. The movie presents an overly simplistic view of a totalitarian government and how it gets there (not that the book is exactly a scholarly treatise), and focuses heavily on stereotypes that match the right more than the left. I don't disagree with the point of the book, but I don't have to like the presentation of the movie.

[Dead Corpse]

I don't know about that. V's little speech on the Voice of FATE came over quite well, even in the movie.

That they left things like FATE, it's Voice/Ear/Fingers/ ect... out of the movie was to the movies detriment.