Review of Watchmen (2001) by Xuanlin L — 29 Jul 2017

Bravo, solemn and stirring, sublime, to name a few, that this movie was up to. Watchmen, beginning with death of Comedian, a grandiosity, as well as a bombshell which the movie drops from the very beginning, successfully leading us to the dark world disarrayed by all kinds of live stuff that mixed up with the dirty city which seems to fall together along with his body and his badge from the height. Through one eye of that smiling face, the film shows us a large quantity of history stories, including some important moments such as the surrender of Japs, the assassination of president Kennedy (by Comedian), all of these was accompanied by that famous song called 'for the times they are a-changing', you many feel that nothing was left behind. Indeed, this kind of head leader was never made before, and probably will be unique for a very long time.

As the investigation into the real murder who committed to the death of Comedian, Rorschach kept warning his old friends, or his comrade-in-arms for old times' sake, other guys seemed to be, however, not quite shocked. Actually, they had plenty of reasons to be, after all, this world has been lousy and hurly-burly for a long goddamn time, dwellers crawled over the surface of this city, those who used to be heroes fell from grace. To them, it was just an ordinary murder case. Switch to another line, Nuclear Crisis between two superpowers: America and Soviet grew as time went by. How to keep people's head above water and save this world from that unimaginable calamity, no one had a clear view except one watchman: Ozymandias, who later neutralized that crisis by imputing the explosion to Doctor Manhattan.

So we can see it: this movie had a simple story: heroes finally saved the entire human race by using some tricks, although brought some burdens to bear. This movie, however, is quite more complicated, it definitely confuses you if you did not read the comic before, but how involuted does this film will be? Let's just say: it is quite meaningless to make a pectination to the contents here.

Apparently, this film seems to be an heroes film, but it tramples them, blames them and cast them into hell. Among these guys, two who always stuck to their rules and followed their own principle: Comedian and Rorschach, died miserably, two were killed by other members, which is exceeding ironical. And, again, their death was caused by not changing their credendum. Other heroes, Owlman and Silk Spectre lived their own ordinary life as usual routine, some occasional good deeds to help people was just a kind of reminiscence they made in order to recall their activities in olden days. Doctor Manhattan, he could not even emancipate himself from old times. Ozymandias, the smartest guy in the planet, did not have a real ability to save the human while not victimizing some in this world. No one was perfect in this universe, but the real bad dudes never exits. Be that as it may, they never stop redeeming themselves, but they never really made that achievement. The world was saved, but who else can save these super heroes ? At least I figure time has no such power here.

Darker than The Dark Knight, Acomplicated as it can be, As much information as it can delivered us.

The director: Zack Snyder complete an impossible mission: filmizing a comic called Watchmen.