Watchman

Tonight a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why.....

Rorschach's Journal: October 12th 1985





Watchman no doubt has created a new set of trend for superheros.
For a Hollywood blockbuster movie, Watchman certainly had its advantages such as good action sciences, sex, and lots of good visual effects and so on.And it is clear that the directer tried hard to replicate what was in the comics. For the fact that he tried to recreate the original comics, Zack Snyder focused too much on all the details, it became too redundant and trivial. And also, there are simply too many metaphors. It might be better if it was a TV series or something like it, that I agree with Fanboy


After watching this movie, it does rise a few arguments.

First I will start with the ordinariness in superheros. In Watchman, superheros might get killed, locked in, not to mention aged and lost shapes. Some of them were really powerful and talented, the rest of them are just average people like you and me. I admire the way Zack Synder enhance or choose not to ignore their wrinkles. This really brings it out more. It further shows how subjugated they were to a greater other out there. When facing the calling of the otherness(by using the word "otherness", I meant it in a more philosophical way. It could be the national machine or an image that they are longing for), they don't always make the right decisions. Take the Comedian for example, he tried to rape silk, killed woman and children cold bloodily, none of these are what we expected from superheros. In his world, once you figure out what a a joke everything is, being the Comedian's the only thing that makes sense.

The death of the comedian brings out the "memory". Everyone remembers him differently, it is exactly by try to retrace their memory, people get to recreate something new. Something they would never imagine.