1. Illegal and Discipline-If the law works, what do you want a superhero to do.
Everyone has a superhero in his heart. This is about the ideal of natural justice. There are no endless trade-offs of pros and cons (killing the heart), no cumbersome forms (you have the right to remain silent but every word you say will become testimony), no "I disagree with you but fucking You must also defend to the death your right to speak.” Some are simply drew a knife and help each other when you see injustices, that is, you are willing to enmity and fight for justice.
From this perspective, superheroes (of course, imaginary superheroes) are born to walk outside the law. This is not to say that he is the destroyer of the law, or at least he is not the first. His appearance only proves that the law has been ruined and riddled with holes, and he is either weak in the face of crime, or he himself has become a tool for the powerful to commit crimes. Superheroes are just a supplement to the law, a dazzling dog-skin plaster, used to bridge the dilapidated gap between formal justice and natural justice. Therefore, it may be said that there are as many superheroes in comics as there are incompetent laws and distrust of laws in reality.
(And in the United States, a country that has always used its legal system to improve itself, there are more superheroes than a football team. People can't help but admire that this law is really damn useful.)
This is the paradox of the modern world. , If you want to get justice, you must first be prepared to become a wanted criminal. So Nixon’s Keane Act is the touchstone of masked heroes. Let those fashion-conscious guys leave. Don’t expect to be able to set up an archway in front of the law after all the limelight. So Ye Xiaosigui retired, Xiaojiang went into a political fight, Oz became a businessman, and the god-like Dr. Manhattan worked on energy conservation, emission reduction and green energy. Only Rorschach, and only Rorschach, continue the justice of guarding evil and eliminating rape. A real superhero is a lawbreaker, and he wants to perform justice outside the law. If he doesn't break the law, he is not a superhero at all. And stupid politicians think that they can be disciplined with the bill, which is really for him.
So, don’t expect me to give you a fucking presumption of innocence, don’t expect me to show you facts and reason, don’t triumphantly say "there is no evidence for you", don’t think that you can be comfortable after being hurt. Squatting in jail-prison is for people to squat, and dogs are not worthy. So Rorschach took the knife and fell. This dirty and rotten city is afraid of me. very good. very good.
2. Hobbies-your zipper is open
(if this title reminds you of something else... of course I don't know what you will think of.)
Ye Xiao's dream:
he and Sigui walked naked Together, they suddenly opened the zipper on each other's skin, and inside were each other in hero uniforms.
Real superheroes are never professional. Superman is a small note for newspapers, Spiderman is a college student, Batman is a well-known entrepreneur, and Iron Man is an armament... You can't be a professional hero alone.
Delivering justice can only be a hobby. Usually, you should be careful to zip your zippers, be an ordinary person, and go to your phone booth at a critical moment. Because professional heroes can only get obedient justice in the end, and true justice can never be obediently obedient.
The modern state apparatus undoubtedly rejects this kind of natural justice. Justice began to become a minority occupation. This huge machine worked hard to convince us that justice is a matter for the police, lawyers, and courts, but not ours. One of the ways is the big laws, countless clauses and red tape. ("You fucking blind you want to get justice?") So the old man fell to the ground and we didn't dare to help. We didn't dare to stop the robbery in broad daylight (legitimate defense vs excessive defense). We don't lack the courage to watch, we will also take pictures of the screen and send out a scarf, hide behind the screen and launch a human search. This is our age, an age of anti-heroes.
The most touching thing in the film is the scene where the older generation Ye Xiao was attacked by a group of punks. Originally thought that such an old guy could only be beaten, but when he caught the fist of the punk and shook his fist, he actually rekindled the vigor of his youth in his eyes. It was his golden age, the glory of the past kept flashing, his fists hit the face of so many famous villains, and those villains were dressed as cute as him. That was his golden age, full of legends and glory, both heroes and villains were covered with a magical aura. Finally fell to the ground, he saw that the most important opponent in his youth, "Reaper", was the fatal blow to him. At this moment, his face was unspeakable excitement and joy. That was his golden age, and the golden age has long ended. The current "Reaper" is just a little old man who can do nothing, and his opponents are just a group of hip-hop punks with uniform clothes.
(Yes, nuclear weapons are great, Dr. Manhattan is great, Tomahawk cruise missiles are great, B52 bombers are great. But these things make the opponent so insignificant, so they also make themselves equally insignificant.)
3, a Rootsuji-Fuck the world peace, I just want to get my justice back.
Rorschach’s coolest line:
He was in prison at that time, with many prisoners who had been arrested by him. Does the tiger fall to Pingyang? At least in their opinion. They tried to kill him, only to be turned into a roast pig.
Rorschach: "None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me."
This powerful line instantly shook me to the point of trembling. This is the fucking superhero. Even in prison, the mobs still tremble.
At the end, various conspiracies were carried out and many people were sacrificed. Oz resolved the Soviet-American Cold War and brought world peace.
He became a good Oz again, and he couldn't fight back or curse.
Dr. Manhattan, skilled in calculations. Yes, this is indeed the most happiness with the least sacrifice.
Ye Xiao and Sigui, after hesitating, lived happily together, as if none of this had happened. The subtext is: you are not doing this right, but since those people are dead, let them die right.
Only Rorschach refused to accept this joy. "I never compromise." Justice has no room for compromise, even if the other side is world peace.
Here, Rorschach completed the final complement of the superhero. He almost asked Manhattan to kill him, because as long as he was still alive, he had to expose the truth and destroy the world peace that had been sacrificed by thousands of people.
Because justice is not calculation.
Because of fucking world peace, I just want to get my justice back.
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