That's what I learned when I read Doctor Strange Love (aka: How I Stopped Worrying and Loved the Atomic Bomb).
In WatchMen's alternate 1980s world, the United States won the Vietnam War and the Cold War with the Soviet Union quickly escalated to full-scale nuclear intimidation. The famous doomsday clock on that side has already pointed to 11:52, the United States and the Soviet Union are at war with each other, and the nuclear destruction of the world will take place in a few days.
However, after watching this film, you will feel that all the characters in the story don't actually care about this matter. The story mainly focuses on the perspectives of Rorschach and Ye Xiao, and their stories, except for their memories of the inherent evil of human nature The past is the investigation of murders. Aside from the Rorschach test, quantum theory and other mysterious and mysterious appearances, the film is actually about the powerlessness and fragility of human nature in the struggle against itself and the outside world. In the setting, except for Dr. Manhattan, the other superheroes are ordinary people like Batman (in fact, the character of Night Owl has a lot to do with Batman), these people who are above the sin and the law continue to suffer from human nature At the end of the story, Rorschach, who was desperate but still wanted to protect human dignity, chose to destroy it. Dr. Manhattan, who had become a new species close to god, gave up his last connection with human nature. Joke and save the world. There is no traditional villain in this story, and the end result is just the use of fear theory to bring a world that is about to be destroyed back to peace under fear. Human nature is absurd and irredeemable, peace, superheroes, nuclear war, Rorschach and Rorschach, all become a joke. There is not even a trace of warmth in this story. Those who understand it will probably have the urge to turn on the TV immediately and switch to CCTV1, because only deceit and stupidity can bring us happiness, even if this happiness is just a joke.
It is said that this film has to mention its play-in-play derivative "The Legend of the Black Ship", a captain who encountered a black ship at sea and was annihilated. In order to defend his wife and daughter, after countless struggles and degeneration of humanity, finally Returning to his home, but this is because he has lost his humanity due to long-term drifting and the fear of losing his wife and children, and is almost crazy. At this time, the black ship has not actually arrived, but he is paranoid and hysterically looking at everyone. As a black ship pirate, he went on a killing spree, and finally killed his wife with his own hands, and then completely collapsed, he boarded the black ship and became one of the countless ghosts on the black ship. The story becomes a play in the comic and novel version of WatchMen in the form of a novel read by its characters. Although the film version was not shown due to space limitations, the film released an animated version of the story. The reason why this seemingly unrelated story is kept narrating outside the main story is because the two stories are actually one after taking off the shell, and they both tell the process of the so-called hypocritical and noble human nature degenerating step by step until it disappears. . The captain became a ghost, Dr. Manhattan went to Mars as a god, Rorschach died, Ye Xiao and Miss Jupiter abandoned their mask identities that guarded humanity, and ordinary people forgot the threat of nuclear bombs and lived happily ever after with their hatred of Dr. Manhattan go down. This is human nature, and no one can add one to form a question.
This film, which was released a month ago, is full of audio-visual entertainment. It is directed by the director of "300". Even if you watch it again, you can get the thrill of visual bombing, but if you feel that something is wrong after watching it, please don't. Too much thought, because it's just a joke, and God laughs too.
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