The captain and his crew were attacked by the ghost of a black cargo ship at sea, and in the end only the captain survived. I think the black cargo ship here refers to war. After World War II, the world returned to peace. Although peace has arrived, under calm, people have infinite fears about the possibility of a nuclear war.
The fall of mankind is not far from the capitalist free market, the dogma of painful redemption and the principles of supply and demand, and they are all based on never enough foundations. The United States and the Soviet Union, the only two superpowers on the planet, are engaged in an arms race unsatisfied, and they keep building stockpiled record-breaking nuclear warheads. The whole world is standing on the edge of the cliff, waiting for whoever presses the big red button that determines the fate of everyone. The cloud of nuclear weapons hangs over everyone, but no one knows when the rain will fall.
The captain was rushed to the small island alone, full of pain and despair, but he saw the black cargo ship heading towards his hometown, thinking of his wife and daughter, and determined to return home to remind everyone. The black cargo ship at this time is a manifestation of people's fear of nuclear war. The captain, the Pharaoh, decided to save others by his own efforts. The captain made a boat out of the corpses of the crew and used it to go home. And this ship has quite the embryonic form of a black cargo ship, ghosts and corpses, blood and stench.
The Pharaoh has realized that Dr. Manhattan is gradually drifting away from mankind. Just as he did not prevent the laughter from shooting and killing pregnant women in Vietnam, it is very likely that he will not prevent the launch of nuclear bombs by both sides, even if 1% of the nuclear bombs are not intercepted, the world The end will also come. The depression of the Cold War also left people breathless.
On the way home, the captain was tortured. Long-term sailing and drinking sea water made him hallucinate. When the captain returned home, he felt that the black cargo ship had attacked his hometown, and he killed his wife in the dark. The Pharaoh used the most costly prank in human history to prevent nuclear war from happening. He interfered with Dr. Manhattan’s perception of the future, used his energy to misunderstand Dr. Manhattan, and killed millions of people. He successfully made two raging nations join forces to fight against him and build a temporary utopia. .
In order to save everyone, the Pharaoh killed millions of people. This is a bit like the well-known tram problem. There are five people on one side of the rail and only one on the other. Will it save five people or one person? Dr. Manhattan is the one who can stop the tram; Rorschach is the one who will stand in front of the tram and block it with his body; the Pharaoh is the one who chooses to trade one life for five.
But will nuclear war really come? The Red Square parade, the escalation of the Vietnam War, the Doomsday Clock, the Power Return to the Flower Movement, and the "Victory! Japan surrenders, the end of the war" newspaper shots, the soundtrack just sings "the current loser will win in the future" all exaggerating the war The depressive atmosphere brought to people. The black cargo ship sailed to the captain's hometown, but did not kill. This may be the captain's illusion, he was so scared that he lost himself. In our real life, the Soviet Union disintegrated and nuclear war did not happen. Fear led the captain to kill the men and women on the beach and his wife, and fear led the Pharaoh to make this expensive prank.
The nuclear war did not happen, and in order to avoid the nuclear war that did not happen, millions of people lost their lives. The captain fled to the sea. The black cargo ship was waiting for him. He boarded the ship and became a member of the ghost.
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