Everybody is familiar with the most popular super heroes. Superman, Spiderman, Batman. All these heroes have one glaring thing in common. They are all unquestioningly good and morally upright. Even in the recent Batman movie, "Dark Knight," Batman is still clearly a good guy. But what happens when your super heroes are sometimes bad, and sometimes go over the line, way over the line? The result is a movie called "Watchmen," and it is not only a stunning piece of film making, but also asks, and answers some very tough questions.
Our story follows a related world, apparently close to our own. Some things are as you would expect distinctive, we see Nixon winning three terms as a president, and we see the United States certainly winning the Vietnam Challenge, instead of slinking away in defeat. Our saga follows the trail of this crew of heroes since the late fifties, in what started out as a vigilante association. The story jumps around throughout time, and has a striking tale to tell.
Somewhere along the line, our mob of tremendous heroes was deemed against the law, and one by one they have either been arrested, or murdered. A while has past without any action from them, until one by one they start ending up being killed. One of their associate decides to take it upon himself to reveal the motive behind the killings. And in doing so he must finger the other members of the now outdated group of protectors of civilization.
All through these flashbacks, we realize that these heroes are far from the faultless icon we are used to in our caped crusaders. Some of them are out-and-out ferocious, and they even question the power that they hold over others. We learn that these so called tremendous heroes have participated in slaying, rape, and conspiracy to commit countless crimes. But do they have a sufficient motivation for all of this?
As a environment to this narrative is the increasing peril of nuclear combat. That much is just as wounding to the film world as it is in real life. And the astounding trick behind the murders is something we don't realize until the precise last part of the movie. Something that makes us question the old proverb of the ends mitigating the means. Is it OK to kill one person to defend a thousand? Is it ok to kill a thousand to defend one million?
These are some of the real life but required questions our heroes must face. You may not agree with the decisions they make, but the path they take along the way proves to be a masterpiece of battle filled saga telling. If you haven't seen "Watchmen," we exceedingly advocate it, as once you do, you will never think of a superhero in the same way. - 40729
Our story follows a related world, apparently close to our own. Some things are as you would expect distinctive, we see Nixon winning three terms as a president, and we see the United States certainly winning the Vietnam Challenge, instead of slinking away in defeat. Our saga follows the trail of this crew of heroes since the late fifties, in what started out as a vigilante association. The story jumps around throughout time, and has a striking tale to tell.
Somewhere along the line, our mob of tremendous heroes was deemed against the law, and one by one they have either been arrested, or murdered. A while has past without any action from them, until one by one they start ending up being killed. One of their associate decides to take it upon himself to reveal the motive behind the killings. And in doing so he must finger the other members of the now outdated group of protectors of civilization.
All through these flashbacks, we realize that these heroes are far from the faultless icon we are used to in our caped crusaders. Some of them are out-and-out ferocious, and they even question the power that they hold over others. We learn that these so called tremendous heroes have participated in slaying, rape, and conspiracy to commit countless crimes. But do they have a sufficient motivation for all of this?
As a environment to this narrative is the increasing peril of nuclear combat. That much is just as wounding to the film world as it is in real life. And the astounding trick behind the murders is something we don't realize until the precise last part of the movie. Something that makes us question the old proverb of the ends mitigating the means. Is it OK to kill one person to defend a thousand? Is it ok to kill a thousand to defend one million?
These are some of the real life but required questions our heroes must face. You may not agree with the decisions they make, but the path they take along the way proves to be a masterpiece of battle filled saga telling. If you haven't seen "Watchmen," we exceedingly advocate it, as once you do, you will never think of a superhero in the same way. - 40729
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