Things have souls. Even objects and constructs have souls. Without which, they would be but piles of dross. What is gold without the value people believe that it holds? What is air without its oxygen? What is a movie without its key scene?
When one censors a film, one must take care that they do not remove key parts that give it its true flavor. The censors must be careful that they do not reduce a show from one about fighting for one's ideals to one that merely glorifies violence. They should avoid creating a mangled piece that is without meaning or purpose.
What would V for Vendetta be, if Hollywood had decided that it would be fine to include the eucharist scene? What would it be like without Valerie's scene? It is well and good to portray a struggle against an oppressive authority, yet how is that struggle different from that of every stereotypical story of a rebel that succeeds against the odds? V was different by showing the State for what it was: Draconian, but also hostile to the sexual minorities and perpetuating the hypocritical lies and corruption that some religions promote in V's world. That much would have been lost had the two been removed. That is the soul of V. Without which, V would just be any other struggle-against-authority show, a rebel without a cause.
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