The literary works of knights have a vague premise: whether the knights can really turn the tide and save the world with their own power. According to this, the current superhero stories can be roughly divided into two categories. The first category, such as the Marvel Universe, does not pierce this layer of window paper, and the audience also tacitly understands. Such works are often discussed from the subjective perspective of the characters The legitimacy of the behavior, and the audience watching it is cool; the other is the original "Watchmen", which explores whether the appearance of superheroes can help human beings to save themselves in a situation where the world is imperfect and human beings are flawed. The question of whether heroes can save themselves after being severely beaten by society.
The original work "Watchmen" ostensibly uses the story of Luo Xia as the guide, but it is actually a group portrait story. Different watchers have different views on this proposition: the joker sees through the world and deconstructs the hopeless human society with laughter and scolding; Rorschach attempts to save himself with the idealistic thinking of duality of good and evil; Pharaoh uses "necessary evil". "Implement the "morality" that I believe in; Dr. Manhattan has soared directly...
But after watching the HBO drama version of "Watchmen", it was different from what I imagined, and I didn't see this thought in the play. Although the story is very exciting, but the layout is too stingy. The value of the IP "Watchmen" is not in who can become the next Dr. Manhattan, but in the constant question "who watches the Watchmen?"
The most unbearable thing is that after the pharaoh saved the world again at the end, it was the moral guard who stood up to criticize him. The hypocritical western world is always so good at throwing dirty work to others, turning a blind eye to see the scapegoat flip the switch on the tram problem for itself, the world will be saved from destruction, and then it will return to the moral high ground , to promote the truth, goodness and beauty of the human heart. But can truth, goodness and beauty solve the problem? Was the pharaoh stupid and couldn't see that humans would cross rivers and demolish bridges, or was he just too smart...?
On the other hand, at the end of the original work, Dr. Manhattan, who can understand that the Pharaoh chose the "necessary evil", directly killed the idealist Rorschach, and left readers with the famous sentence "I'll leave it entirely". in your hands”. Although this sentence appears twice in the drama version, it is limited to the personal choice of irrelevant characters. I really do not understand the essence of this sentence❌
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