before the movie critic is always willing to put it in the back of one-sided colon most attractive, most would like to express a few words extracted content, but this time it seems I was fumbled. Whatever. "Watchmen" is a movie that explores a lot of things. It's probably a bit more difficult to refine.
"Watchmen" was released in 2009. Director Zach Schneider is not a big name. I have only watched the 3D "Legend of the Guardian" in 2010, and it feels average. I haven't seen the other "300 Spartans" (bloody) and "Dawn of the Living Dead" (disgusting). I always think this tour guide has a lot of taste. The original work of "The Watchman" is a graphic novel, but the performance is like a cartoon. The original author is Alan Moore. Baidu found out that this guy is actually the original author of "V", "The Ripper", and "Avenging Soldiers", so I have to worship it. And he won the Hugo Award, the highest honor in the science fiction industry, with the comic book "Watchmen"-there has never been a comic before.
If you first classify this movie, it is a sci-fi movie, with suspense, action (this is indispensable), and a bit restricted (mainly because the individual shots are too violent, I heard that the director’s cut version is even more unbearable. ). To subdivide it within a science fiction film, you can give it two labels: superhero, overhead history. From the perspective of the development of the storyline, the film has a trend towards steampunk and utopia, but it does not take shape in the end and it ends.
Speaking of which, there seems to be nothing peculiar about this movie. Super hero? All the screens are flying. But in fact, the superhero is completely the guise of this movie, and it is almost the same as saying that it is an anti-hero. First of all, the action components are few and far between, and there is nothing thrilling. In addition, even the final duel was not a climax, it was like a philosophical debate, a tangled intellectual and emotional entanglement. We will talk about this later.
As for the overhead history, it is to form a sharp contrast with reality, so as to highlight certain things (what is highlighted? This is a question for wise men to see wisdom). The original work was serialized between 1985 and 1986, and it also talks about 1985 events, but the history before and after this has been different from the one we are familiar with. The world is still that world, but the original writer and director become gods, creating another history that is close to reality but not so the same. As the plot develops, it will bring us one shock after another.
2. The plot of the film
In 1985, the Cold War was in full swing (this was in line with reality), and the US-Soviet nuclear war was about to start. The "Watchmen", an organization dedicated to maintaining world peace, is facing a crisis. It consists of six people, each with its own code name: Dr. Manhattan (with powerful superpowers), Silk Ghost (ordinary person, good skill), Ye Xiao (ordinary person, high-tech equipment, good skill), Rorschach (normal People, good skills), comedians (ordinary people, good skills), Ozmandis (high IQ, quick response).
At that time, the organization had been disbanded by the Nixon administration, Dr. Manhattan worked for the government, the comedian retired, Ozmandis disclosed his identity as the boss of a famous consortium, Silk Ghost and Ye Xiao lived incognito as ordinary people, Rorschach Wanted for continuing to be a chivalrous hero. But the comedian is suddenly murdered, making the superheroes feel that someone wants to kill himself. They joined together to investigate the case and discovered a huge conspiracy. But at the last moment, what is waiting for them is an ending that no one can think of... The
plot sounds very exciting, but the audience who wants to seek excitement will definitely be disappointed. In such a movie that seems to tell the story of a group of superheroes (looks like "X-Men"), what it really wants to do is to reflect the changes in American culture and society since World War II through the ups and downs of a group of superheroes, and explore a specific What kind of influence the society of the times has on people and how people face a society at the same time deeply analyzes the sorrow of human nature and even the sorrow of reason. It also shows a macroscopic view of the tragedy of each individual under the violent alienation of society (for example, American society during the Cold War).
Third, the beginning of the film
Generally speaking, I shouldn't talk about what a movie's lens looks like in a long form, but it is still necessary here. Because this movie was unusual from the beginning.
An old man sat boredly next to the TV, with a yellow smiling face conspicuously pinned to his collar. A news talk show is being broadcast on TV. A group of experts are discussing a problem: the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union intensified, and the clock of the doomsday has the last five minutes left. Well, in 1985, I couldn't get away with these things. An expert mentioned Dr. Manhattan, thinking that it was his existence that led to the Soviet Union’s arms race and the U.S.-Soviet exchanges.
The old man became impatient and changed channel after channel, but it was all about the Cold War. Finally he found a nostalgic movie, and the melodious nostalgic music played, he smiled. Immediately, a man in black broke into the old man's house, and the old man glanced at him: "I knew there would be such a day." So the two started fighting. The first thing that surprised me was this place-the soundtrack of the movie. The soundtrack here is not the thrilling, tense, scary, fast-paced soundtrack of ordinary action scenes, but the soothing and nostalgic Unforgettable. This song came from a movie on TV. Even the shot of the old man being thrown over half of the living room by the man in black is very beautiful. The shot was taken from outside the window into the window. The huge French window is a projection of the night view of New York. A hole was smashed into the ground. This method is a bit like in "The Godfather", the gangsters are shot down to the ground and processed into slow motion-to some extent, the two movies are really similar, and their connotations are deeper than they seem.
The old man was beaten with blood all over his face. He looked at the man in black and smiled. "It's a joke. It's all a joke. Mum, forgive me." he said. His blood dripped on the smiling face, and across the smiling face's eyes, it was like a smiling face with blood and tears. The old man was thrown out of the window by the man in black, and the camera followed up the street where the old man fell hundreds of meters below. The smiling face stayed in front of the camera for a few seconds, and then followed the old man. The melodious music still didn't stop, and the broken glass fell on the street, like musical Hexuan. The smiling face turned a few times on the ground before being drowned in blood.
This is the beginning of a paragraph that is confusing. It is not unusual to start with a murder. What is unusual is the way the shots and soundtrack are handled. The director seems to have deliberately downplayed fighting (a pure superhero movie would never do it), highlighting something else. The smiley face occupies a large part of the introduction, but what does it symbolize? It seems that I have to keep looking at it before I know it.
Next is the title-the part where the names of directors, screenwriters, actors, etc. are listed. The nostalgic guitar music is still ringing. This passage is strung together by shots, explaining the background given by the film (or the original)-that is, the historical background that is overhead and different from reality: 1940, An organization called the "militia" was established in the United States. The "militias" are superheroes with extraordinary skills. Generally speaking, superheroes either have superpowers or high-tech equipment. However, the "militias" are ordinary people. They only choose to help the police eliminate violence for various reasons. And most people are masked. Through their outstanding performance, they won the love of the people and the admiration of the government, and even participated in World War II. There is also a scene in the beginning of the film. When Japan surrendered in 1945, the United States cheered. A female "militiaman" caught a nurse and kissed affectionately, which was exactly the same as the historical photo of the famous sailor and nurse kissing. What's interesting is that a sailor next to them looked at them with a smirk, without knowing that he should be the protagonist of the photo. This lens is also very intriguing.
However, the good times did not last long. The "militiamen" and "dollar bills" were shot and killed by criminals because their cloak was caught by the revolving door when they were guarding the bank. This plot is really absurd, the superhero actually died so uselessly. The heroes are old and retired. The "militiamen" and "moth men" were sent to a mental hospital; the "militiamen" "profile" who had just engaged in "labour" were murdered on the bed together with their female companions. The wall was written with blood "slutty homosexuals"; The "militiamen" and "Sigui" (the mother of the Watcher "Sigui") got married, but fell into endless quarrels with their husbands. These have undoubtedly been widely reported by the media. The night scene of the superheroes is so bleak, the anti-hero thinking of "Watchmen" is revealed. In the back of the movie, this point will be discussed repeatedly.
Finally a new generation of heroes appeared, and together they formed a new organization: Watchmen. The former "militia" and "comedian" also became a watchman.
The world is still a chaotic world: Kennedy was assassinated soon, and the assassin seems to be the murdered old man in the introduction. Brezhnev and Castro parade on Red Square, and a truck carrying a nuclear warhead slowly passes by. The American people protested the Vietnam War. A little girl inserted a flower into the rifle of the military police, but the military police opened fire on the people, and the petals shattered. Nixon was re-elected for the second time. Riots were rampant, the window was painted with "Who watches watchmen", and then a Molotov cocktail smashed in. The watchmen are no longer loved like the militiamen, and people don’t need heroes anymore.
After so much longing, I can finally start the feature film, which is really tiring. Given that the background of this movie is too complicated and it is aimed at people who have seen the original, so much has to be said.
Fourth, the development of the film
Rorschach
appear Rorschach quite chic. He walked on the dark street, dressed completely as the detective in the 1930s-wide-brimmed hat, windbreaker, scarf, leather gloves. The only special thing is that he wears a special mask-a pure white headgear, with ink marks on it that will constantly change symmetry. Some background implants are needed: this is the legendary Rorschach inkblot test, founded by Swiss psychiatrist and psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach. It is generally composed of 10 carefully crafted ink maps, all of which are axially symmetrical. Participants will be asked what they see on the card, and they will unknowingly reveal their true psychology when answering, because they have projected their mentality into the situation when they look at the picture. This is the projection method, which is widely used in modern psychology-the end of implantation. Rorschach wears such a mask to get the name Rorschach. As for why he did it... the audience experienced it for themselves.
As soon as Rorschach appeared, there was a large monologue in the form of a diary. The next few scenes are all in the form of his diary monologue. Rorschach is actually a storyteller. In the film, his voice is hoarse and cold, with chills:
Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, Tire tread on burst stomach. (Luo Xia Ji, October 12, 1985. Dog carcass appeared in the alley in the morning, run over by tires.)
This city 'safraid of me.I've seen it's true face. (This city is afraid of me, I have seen its true face.)
The streets are extended gutters ...and the gutters are full of blood. And when the drains finally scab over...all the vermin will drown.The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder...will foam up around their waists...and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout,"Save us." And I 'll whisper, "No." (The street is just another kind of drainage ditch, and there is blood flowing in the drainage ditch. When the drainage ditch is finally destroyed, all the gangsters will drown. Their sex and murder are accumulated Crime... will drown them, all the prostitutes and politicians will yell, "Help." I will say softly, "No")
Now the whole world stands on the brink...staring down into bloody hell. All those liberals and intellectuals...and smooth talkers...and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say. (now the whole world is Standing on the edge of the cliff...Looking at the doomsday under the cliff. All liberals, intellectuals...and eloquent politicians suddenly don’t know what to say.)
Beneath me ,this awful city.It screams like an abattoir full of retarded children...and the night reeks of fornication and bad consciences. (The city below me is like a slaughterhouse for screaming mentally retarded children...and the night reeks of fornication and bad consciences.)
Tonight, a comedian died in New York.Somebody knows why. (Tonight, the comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why.)
It can be seen that Rorschach is completely a cynic. He couldn’t understand the world (the street was just another drain, and the drain was filled with blood), and he believed that all ugliness shouldn’t exist-and he was born to eliminate the ugliness (when the drains are eventually destroyed At that time, all gangsters will drown). At the same time, he also believes that the current government has no ability to control the development of the world in a better direction (now the whole world is standing on the edge of the cliff... watching the end of the cliff. All liberals, intellectuals... and politicians who can speak. , I suddenly don’t know what to say), just like the western United States in the 18th century, the maintenance of this society depends on a sense of justice that is purely human instinct and violence guided by a sense of justice. At this point, Rorschach is very similar to Batman. You must know that Batman also lives in an ugly city (in "Watchmen", this city has become the whole world, making people even more desperate), and Batman also lives in an ugly city. Only relying on his sense of justice and violence (though he has never killed anyone) maintains the so-called "justice". This kind of tragedy of one person against the entire society determines that neither Batman nor Rorschach can be a victor. This was the case in 2008's "Batman: The Dark Knight" and the same was true in "Watchmen".
Rorschach discovered that the dead old man was a comedian.
Ye Xiao
then turned the camera. Ye Xiao is chatting with a former "militia" (the old generation of "Ye Xiao"). The militiamen talked about their original motives for being superheroes: the bandits covered their faces and robbed them. After they were caught, the evidence was insufficient and they had to be released again. So they discussed with the police to punish the criminals with masks and do things that the law could not do. This motive appears in almost all masked hero works (not just movies). The film did not explore whether this motive was correct-I am afraid no one can say this. But this very simple motivation once made me miss those old superhero movies very much.
Rorschach finds Ye Xiao and tells him that the comedian is dead, thinking that someone wants to disadvantage the Watcher. But Ye Xiao thought he was too paranoid and made a fuss. He has become accustomed to the lives of ordinary people, and is unwilling to participate in these things anymore. Rorschach asked:
Attack on one is attack on all of us.
When you walk down the street in a city dying of rabies...past the human cockroaches...talking about their heroin and child pornography...do you really feel normal? …By the side of the rogue...Listen to them talking about heroin and underage porn...Do you really think it’s normal?)
He really has a lot of sharp words. But Ye Xiao was still unwilling to help him.
Now I'm talking about Ye Xiao. In fact, "Watchmen" has portrayed a distinctive and typical character, whether it is the characters in other works or the people in reality, you can find shadows in them. Unlike Rorschach, Ye Xiao is a person from a wealthy family (like Batman, which is why Ye Xiao has a lot of high-tech equipment) (Rorschach’s mother is a prostitute, which is explained in the film. There are several watchmen in the film. He has been accounted for in his life experience), and he also went to university with a double degree in aerospace and animals. This environment and experience have made him more gentle, kind, and more importantly, a personality that is content with the status quo. Nixon disbanded the Watchers, and he did not want to fight again. He told Rorschach: "At least I don't need to hide behind a mask." Characters determine fate, Rorschach and Ye Xiao's different personalities determine their respective destinies.
Ozmandis
The next player, Ozmandis, is being interviewed. He mentioned that he is working with Dr. Manhattan to develop new energy sources in Antarctica to replace fossil fuels. He believed that the US-Soviet Cold War was not due to ideology, but due to scarcity of resources. He wants to develop inexhaustible new energy sources to end human suffering. This is an allusion to the Cold War and even the modern international society, and it is also a summary of human history-resources are always the source of struggle. Is the point raised by the movie fact? Scholars will argue over this issue; non-professional audiences can also think about this issue-excellent works always make people think non-stop. Ozmandis's evaluation of Rorschach is even sharper: he is an anti-socialist. This is true. But the society in the movie is indeed almost hopeless. almost. And he has no sympathy for comedians. He believes that compared with his death, preventing the US-Soviet nuclear war is the most important thing.
He and Rorschach are completely two kinds of people: Rorschach may be more radical, paranoid, or even more violent, but he is definitely a good person, and he acts entirely from an instinctive view of good and evil—some people actually do what he does. I agree with it from the bottom of my heart. For example, in the face of a kidnapper who feeds a kidnapped little girl's body to a dog, he first brutally killed his dog. When the scared kidnapper said he was mentally ill and asked him to arrest him, he was very cruel. He chopped it off the head with a kitchen knife, and even cut several knives. At the end, he coldly threw a sentence: "Men get arrested. Dogs get put down." Seeing this scene, many people may think that he is cruel, but in fact In daily life, for example, if someone is stolen, many people will express the emotion of "Thieves should be killed." Rorschach is indeed cruel, because even if everyone says "the thief should die", few people will actually kill him when they meet a thief-even though such cases are actually not rare. Rorschach’s personality is a side effect of a dark society.
Where is Ozmandis? He is the smartest person in the world and is absolutely rational. He is never driven by emotions. He has a strategic vision and focuses on the overall situation. He also feels like this. He is polite and speaks decently in interviews. logic. And he put the US-Soviet nuclear war ahead of the murder case. On the other hand, Rorschach broke into Ye Xiao's house and opened his refrigerator to find food, which seemed rude.
Rorschach seemed to recognize this. Among all the watchmen, the only one he didn't look for was Ozmandis.
Dr. Manhattan,
Rorschach to a US military base of Dr. Manhattan seeking help because he can see the future, the doctor said he was interfering with the ability to predict, may be due to interference generated by nuclear war time future outbreaks. He wants to cooperate with Ozmandis to develop new energy sources to organize a nuclear war and cannot help him. Rorschach failed again.
The role of Dr. Manhattan is very interesting. There are many things he can do-mind transfer, space transfer, body reorganization, extraterrestrial survival... He is a perfect superman, almost god. Moreover, he has excellent and perfect morals and will not do bad things. He is too perfect—too much like a human being. In fact, he used to be a physicist, only to obtain superpowers because of a particle experiment. This somewhat "fairy tale" character played an important role in the development of the plot.
Sigui
Sigui's mother was a former Sigui, but she married someone she didn't love. And her mother was almost raped by a comedian when she was a "militia." She is the girlfriend of Dr. Manhattan and lives with him. But like Ye Xiao, she has no interest in Xing Xia Zhiyi anymore. Dr. Manhattan was busy with the work with Ozmandis. She was very disappointed, so she went to find Ye Xiao for dinner. The two remembered everyone's past and missed it very much.
The comedian was
buried, and Rorschach was the only one who did not attend (no wonder, he is a wanted man). What kind of person a comedian is, we can see from the memories of other people. Simply put, he is not a good person at all. Such a person has also become a superhero, and the anti-hero of "Watchmen" is home. In Dr. Manhattan’s recollection, the two participated in the Vietnam War together and made the United States a complete victory (so capable of adultery)-no wonder that Dr. Manhattan’s abilities are so buggy. But they also committed serious killings. Especially comedians, who are simply bloodthirsty, laughed at the burning woman. What's even more surprising is that the comedian in this memory did not wear a mask, and the observant audience could find that he was the person who assassinated Kennedy in the opening movie.
After the "victory", a Vietnamese woman asked the comedian to be responsible for the child in her womb (this guy is still romantic). At the time, Dr. Manhattan was also nearby, but did not stop the comedian from shooting her. She was only surprised by his shooting— —But no anger. For him, this was something he couldn't understand—"something that could not be explained logically" (why he wanted to kill a pregnant woman)—but it couldn't arouse his feelings about this inhumane behavior. He has only thoughts, not emotions anymore. Afterwards, the comedian said to Dr. Manhattan: “You could have stopped me, but you didn’t. You don’t care about humans at all. You are gradually losing your humanity, Doctor. God bless us.”
That’s right, Dr. Manhattan gained superhuman powers. Go Pay more. And what about comedians? He only knows to kill people and listen to the government's orders. There is no justice at all. In fact, from his opening words, you can see why he is such a person: "It's a joke." The typical thinking of a nihilist. Everything is a joke. So it doesn't matter what you do. In Ozmandis’s memories, he said: “Humans have been fighting since history.” “It doesn’t matter as soon as the nuclear bomb flies.” In Ye Xiao’s memory, he brutally suppressed the anti-government demonstrations. Ye Xiao asked him: "Where is our American dream?" He laughed: "The American dream? It has come true!" Unparalleled irony. He hates this society as much as Rorschach, but he has adopted a method of drifting with the flow-and also the most cowardly method.
It's just such a group of people, they are superheroes, but they don't care about good or bad, justice or evil. They are not saviors, and they can't even control their own destiny. They are even weaker than ordinary people.
This is how the film alternately shows the six watchmen and their memories, making the plot move forward. Rorschach continues to act as the narrator of the diary.
Rorschach
Rorschach found that at the funeral (he went to the funeral) there was a person who shouldn't be there: their former rival was called the super villain (from the name...) he interrogated the super villain, and the super villain said that now he is just a The old man with cancer, go to visit his "old friend". He also said that the comedian had called him in the middle of the night and made him pee his pants in fright. The comedian cried bitterly (he is still the most vulnerable after all). It's really ironic that a superhero asks a super villain to confide in it. And as the only "bad guy" in a superhero movie, the super bad guys are too bad. Before leaving, the comedian said strange things: "You are also on the list, and Jenny, the ex-girlfriend of Dr. Manhattan."
Rorschach came to the cemetery and had another monologue:
Is that what happens to us? No time for friends?Only our enemies leave roses.Violent lives ending violently.Blake
understood.Humans are savage in nature.No matter how much you try to dress it up...to disguise it ...Blake saw society's true face.Chose to be a parody of it .A joke. (This is what happened to us? No time for friends? Only enemies will leave roses. Cruel people are brutally killed. Black knows this very well, human nature is evil. No matter what. how to cover up ... how to camouflage ... Blake saw the true face of society. select to imitate, to be a clown.)
wire ghost
silk ghost finally could not stand numb Dr. Manhattan, look for owl. The two were kidnapped by a group of gangsters in the alley. After defeating them, the two regained the feeling of being a superhero.
Dr. Manhattan
The doctor participated in the interview program, but was told by a reporter that many people who were close to him had cancer. The reporter suggested that he was the cause. Then his ex-girlfriend Jenny appeared and accused him of abandoning her and causing her to get cancer. The doctor was bombarded by reporters and transported himself to Mars in a fit of anger. His inhuman character characteristics are shown. Because of his superpowers, time is almost meaningless to him-he can see the future, he doesn't even age; he can go anywhere and live anywhere. The universe cannot limit him, he is God. But through God's perspective, he was tired of human beings and fell into the void of philosophy. He discarded the photo of himself and Jenny and decided not to return to Earth.
Nixon's
lens turned again. Due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the US-Soviet nuclear war has come to an edge. Nixon ordered the preparation of nuclear weapons. At the same time, Ozmandis was almost assassinated, and the situation became dangerous and confusing.
Rorschach
Rorschach investigation has made new progress - Assassin's work in the pyramid company, before he saw the pyramids in the company's pension check supervillain home. He entered the house of the super villain again, not wanting that he had been killed, and he became the murderer and was arrested by the police. In prison, a psychiatrist performed the Rorschach test on Rorschach-it was very funny, it was a trick, but he didn't get anything. Rorschach told him what he had done to the kidnappers
who fed the little girl's body to the dog, saying: Wealthy.Liberal sensibilities.What you call compassion.Wanting to protect and understand the guilty.This rotting society, what is calls rehabilitation. Nothing short of compromise. (The rich, sensitive to freedom, you call it sympathy. Want to protect and understand prisoners. This rotten society, the so-called transformation. It can be said to be a compromise.)
Talking about being crushed Little girl, he said:
See,doctor,God didn't kill that little girl.Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs.If God saw what any of us did that night,he didn't seem to mind.From then on ,I knew: God doesn't make the world this way. We do. If God sees what happened that night, he doesn’t seem to mind. From then on, I’ve come to understand: It’s not God who made the world like this. It’s us.)
Rorschach was cruelly provoking prisoners in prison. After teaching someone a lesson:
None of you seem to understand.
I 'm not locked in here with you. You're locked in here with me. It's really domineering. Although he was cruel and used violence to control violence, he still had to admit that he was a bloody man.
Ghost wire
wire ghost owl and eventually fell in love. The two men re-emerged at night, which coincided with the prison riots. The two controlled the prisoners, and Rorschach also escaped from the chaos to join them. Before leaving, he put on his own mask and asked the psychiatrist:
Your turn, doctor . Tell me,
what do you see? Rorschach
Rorschach and owl Jenny also found work as a pyramid company, the original supervillain and Jenny are there because of work and suffering from cancer, Dr. Manhattan was framed. The two went to Ozmandis to find out the chief executive behind the Pyramid Company, but found that Oz Modan was not there. Even more amazing is that they discovered that Ozmandis was the investor of the Pyramid Company. He forced him out of the earth by studying the psychological curve of Dr. Manhattan.
The ending is near. Rorschach wrote the last diary.
Rorschach's journal, final entry. Vedit(奥兹曼迪斯的真名) is behind everything. Why? What's his endgame? I cannot imagine a more dangerous opponent. Used to joke he was fast enough to catch a bullet. He could kill us both alone in the snow. That's where we are going now, Antarctica.
Whether I'm alive or dead upon this reading...I hope the world survives long enough for this journal to reach you. I live my life free of compromise. ..and step into the shadow without complaint or regret. Rorschach, November 1st.( No matter whether I am dead or alive when I see the diary... I hope the world will survive to the day you see the diary. I never compromise in my life... I have no regrets or regrets when I walk into the darkness. Rorschach, November 1st.)
Rorschach threw his diary through the hole of a door and threw it into a basket.
Dr. Manhattan
silk ghost trying to convince Dr. Manhattan on Mars US-Soviet nuclear war to stop, but he asked:. "? Why should I care nothing with my world," "full of death on the streets". "Universe did not feel" " The existence of life is only a serious overestimation phenomenon." "Without microorganisms, Mars exists very well." Through the perspective of the universe, he had already seen everything.
"Is it impossible to pray for a miracle?"
"The miracle they define is meaningless. Only what is possible will happen."
When Sigui was finally disappointed, he said: "Do you hate me for not looking at life in the form of life? But you are not willing to take mine. Look at the world from a perspective." He entered the deepest memory of Sigui that she didn't even know, and he discovered that Sigui was the son of a comedian. The father she was supposed to be her mother later remarried. Dr. Manhattan couldn't understand why her mother fell in love with someone she hated for every reason (such as once raped herself). The miracle he just said could not happen really happened, and his transcendence collapsed. He decided. "Let's go home."
Fifth, the ending of the film is
in the Antarctic, Rorschach and Ye Xiao found Ozmandis. He killed the comedian because he discovered his plan. He made the people around Dr. Manhattan get cancer and forced him out of the earth, because he knew that this person who seemed to see through everything was actually the most emotional one. He used a lot of money to study the superphoton flow to block the foresight ability of Dr. Manhattan. He hired someone to assassinate himself. He killed the super villain to blame Rorschach.
There is only one last question left: Why?
Ozmandis firmly believed that what he did was to make the world a better place. He is the smartest person in the world, and he is very conceited because of this. He doesn't think what he has done is wrong.
The new energy he researched came from Dr. Manhattan. By copying his energy, Ozmandis can attack major cities in the world, making it look like Dr. Manhattan did it. Mankind no longer trusts this "non-human". By shaping such a common enemy, the United States and the Soviet Union can make peace and prevent all human beings from being destroyed by nuclear war...Although Ozmandis’s attack will kill millions of people. .
This is an old proposition: the tram problem. A lunatic tied five innocent people to the tram track. An out-of-control tram drove towards them and was about to crush them in a moment. Fortunately, you can pull a lever to make the tram go to another track. But there is another problem. The lunatic also tied a person on that other track. Considering the above situation, should you pull the lever?
The tram problem was first proposed by the philosopher Philippa Foot to criticize the main theories in ethical philosophy, especially utilitarianism. Utilitarianism puts forward the view that most moral decisions are made based on the principle of "providing the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people." From a utilitarian point of view, the obvious choice should be to pull the lever and save five people and kill only one. But critics of utilitarianism believe that once the lever is pulled, you become an accomplice to an immoral behavior—you are partially responsible for the death of a single person on another track. However, others believe that you are required to do something in this situation, and your inaction will be equally immoral. In short, there is no complete moral behavior, and this is the point. Many philosophers use the tram problem as an example to show that real-life conditions often force a person to violate his own moral code, and there are also situations where there is no complete moral approach.
There is no completely moral approach, this is the sorrow of the entire mankind. Ozmandis used reason to defeat emotion, morality, and law. Which one is more important? no one knows.
Rorschach acts on a pure sense of justice, which means that he pays more attention to emotion and morality. He couldn't accept this kind of "kill millions to save billions" behavior. This is also the idea of ordinary people-unlike Ozmandis and Dr. Manhattan, one stands at the height of all mankind and the other stands at the height of the entire universe. Therefore, Rorschach could not accept Ozmandis' logic and approach. The same goes for Ye Xiao. But they couldn't beat Ozmandis, because he was still the fastest man in the world.
Ozmandis used the power of Dr. Manhattan to destroy a series of major cities in the world such as London, Paris, Beijing, Moscow, and New York. Dr. Manhattan came a step late and found himself a murderer in people's eyes. Superheroes are not ultimately called saviors, on the contrary they are murderers and accomplices. In the words of a comedian: "It's a joke."
Just when Dr. Manhattan was about to kill Ozmandis, Ozmandis turned on the TV: President Nixon was giving a speech. Dr. Manhattan has become the enemy of the whole people, and mankind has united. This combination of common enemies is exactly the same as in "X-Men: Lesson One". It seems that only external forces can end human struggles, and it is another sorrow.
"I saved the world." Ozmandis said, "we."
"We?" Rorschach was extremely angry, "everyone will know your sins."
"If you expose me, I will sacrifice millions of lives in exchange for it. Peace."
" Peace based on lies." Ye Xiao said.
What would Dr. Manhattan think? It's easy to guess. His perspective is much higher than that of Ozmandis (the difference between all mankind and the whole universe), and he agrees with Ozmandis's idea. He might not do what Ozmandis did, but it had already happened, and he couldn't let it go back to the past.
Rorschach insisted on making the truth public, and Ye Xiao knew that he would be killed by Dr. Manhattan. But Rorschach said:
Never compromise. Not even in the face of armageddon. That's always been the difference between us, Daniel (the real name of the night owl).
Looking at Rorschach’s back, Ozmandis said: "I feel every The death of an individual, looking at every innocent life killed by me, is to save mankind." He looked at Dr. Manhattan, "You understand, right?"
"I understand."
Dr. Manhattan stopped Rorschach, hoping He can change his mind. Rorschach took off the mask and said the last paragraph:
Suddenly you discover humanity? Convenient. (You suddenly discovered humanity? Really time.)
If you'd cared from the start, none of this would have happened. Of course you must protect Veidt's new utopia.What's one more body amongst foundations? Well what are you waiting for?....Do it...Do it!
(If you care about it from the beginning, none of this will happen. Of course, you have to protect Witte’s new utopia. For this foundation, what if one more person should die? Okay, what are you waiting for?... Let's do it!... Let's do it!)
Rorschach was blown to pieces, leaving a large pool of deep red blood on the snow, which was exactly the same as the ink on his mask.
Ye Xiao fell on the snow and cried out in pain.
Dr. Manhattan left the earth and never returned.
After completing his mission, Ozmandis stayed in Antarctica alone.
Sigui and Ye Xiao got married and continued the unfinished business of the Watcher, guarding this devastated and fragile world.
In the newspaper, the editor-in-chief complained to employees that the world was peaceful and there was nothing to report. The employee said that he could look for it from unknown contributions. In the basket of unknown manuscripts, Luo Xiaji is impressively listed.
Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985. Tonight, a comedian died in New York.
VI. Analysis of the
film The film is full of irony, just like the phrase "It's a joke." The most ironic is Dr. Manhattan and Ozmandis A great person-a god, a high intelligence quotient, but ultimately defeated by someone as simple as Rorschach. There is no way to know the next scene-it is up to the audience to think about it. The truth is revealed, human beings return to killing? What a joke.
There are also some minor ironies, such as the background music of the comedian's burial-"The Sound of Silence", which was originally a song to commemorate Kennedy. It was very ironic for the comedian who assassinated Kennedy.
On closer inspection, "Watchmen" seems to have many scenes that seem familiar-in fact, it is full of symbols, hints, metaphors, satire, and objects include other movies, historical events, historical figures, artistic characters, and so on. But these objects have a common feature: they are all products of a certain society in the United States in a certain era. In this sense, "Watchmen" is a liquidation and concentrated expression of American culture. There are examples everywhere in the movie. For example, the noir style of the movie ("Sin City" in 2005 is also a tribute to film noir): dimly lit scenes, dark streets always filled with graffiti, garbage, and wet rain, gloomy cold weather, misty Neon lights, bizarre human figures. From beginning to end, a kind of indifference deep in the bones makes people shudder. This is exactly the style of American film noir in the 1940s and 1950s. In film noir, the protagonist is always attacked by both the official and the criminal group. Although the protagonist will always win in a contest with a criminal opponent, he has to obey the social legal norms, which in turn condone crime or be in harmony with crime, so the protagonist's victory has no social value. In the film noir after World War II, the protagonist has begun to understand society and become cynical, but he is caught in a crisis of isolation. The artistic technique of noir films is characterized by a lot of suspense, thrills, dark and melancholic tone, and the prescribed scenes always give people a sense of horror and unpredictable crisis. The protagonist is often a rebellious character who has a dual personality in morals, is full of hostility to the surrounding world, is disappointed and lonely, and finally finds a home in death. The superhero Rorschach in "Watchmen" is a typical representative of such a protagonist. The ending of the film is also a typical noir ending, but it has greatly surpassed the general noir film.
Why does "Watchmen" have so many black elements? The birth of film noir may be confirmed from the side. Film noir rises together with noir literature and black humor, and is a manifestation of the "Beat Generation". The "Beat Generation" is the most basic understanding of human nature and hope for life. "Beat" literary works are usually absurd, bizarre, and sad. On the one hand, "Watchmen" is a commemoration of that unforgettable era in American history; on the other hand, "Watchmen" also serves as a warning to the era at that time-the US-Soviet Cold War is the entire human society A sign of the imminent "breakdown". Society and human nature and the understanding of society and human nature are always the products of a specific era.
Excluding this big frame, the film shows American culture everywhere: the opening shot of Armstrong landing on the moon, Armstrong landed on the moon and found that Dr. Manhattan was already there. He said a sentence, not the dialectical relationship between a big step and a small step, but: "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky." Anyone who knows the history of the moon landing knows that this sentence is Armstrong returning to the lunar module. It was said at the time, and the story behind this sentence is also very interesting. Armstrong’s words reflect the unique sense of humor that Americans have.
In addition, Ozmandis’s Antarctic base has a TV wall, much like the one in The Matrix. It shows "Cat and Mouse", "Spartan 300 Warriors", the action film "Warrior of Fire" and so on. The extreme mixing of cultural symbols is also an important feature of this film.
The film's discussion of society and human nature under the Cold War in a specific era can be described as extremely in-depth, even cryptic. This is already evident in the plot. The ending is also very dark, the only "uncompromising" Rorschach is dead, but the peace that Ozmandis and the Manhattan doctor's institution has calculated is difficult to maintain. Is Rorschach wrong, or they are wrong? Facing Rorschach’s last question before his death (If you'd cared from the start, none of this would have happened.), Dr. Manhattan replied: "I can change almost everyting. But I can't change human nature." He feels helpless to humans.
In the end, the movie did not give a human ending, which requires the audience to torture themselves.
My favorite character in the movie is Rorschach. I believe many people will come to the same conclusion. It is worth mentioning that Rorschach chose to become a masked hero against the background of the real "Genovese Incident" in New York in 1964: In 1964, Miss Genovese (Kitty Genovese) who lived in Queens. On the way home from get off work, he was assassinated in the street by a gangster. At that time, 38 neighbors saw her being chased by the gangster for more than half an hour from the window, but none of the witnesses came out to intervene after Genovese called for help, and it was only after the gangster left. Call the police. This cruel scene in human history touched many people, and the entire United States was in an uproar and anger.
Probably the advancement of history always requires many victims, and the civilization of the United States does not come out of thin air (not to mention that it is sometimes uncivilized). The discussion of the film is heavy, and I am even inclined to the conclusion that it actually draws is also heavy, although it does not state it explicitly. But... always have some hope for life, don't you? Human nature is inherently good and inherently evil. This is a question that has been arguing for thousands of years. The important thing is that in such an era, a society faces many things that disappoint us (high-speed rail, mines, oil spills), what kind of attitude should we hold? Envy others? Belittle yourself? Don't be ridiculous.
Avoid making more people call the victims of civilization and progress, and avoid humans having to "kill millions to save billions" to continue like in the movie. Otherwise, we are a big joke.
Life is like Rorschach's mask, what you see is what you want to see.
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