It wasn’t long before I started writing reviews for a movie. It was the first time I wrote a review for such an in-depth movie, and the pressure was still relatively high. Maybe it's because I'm not good at expressing it. I often think a lot about a movie, but few can express it clearly. "Watchmen" is a movie with depth and worth exploring. I also understand a little bit, but maybe not a lot. Let me talk about some of my personal views.
After watching it, I found out that "Watchmen" seems to be an R-rated film. The final cut is 215 minutes, and I watched 208 minutes, your director's cut is longer, seven minutes shorter than the final cut. The beginning of the movie is well designed. The opening scene is that the joker in the watchmen is killed (the background time is 1985), and then it is very good to pass the opening song, which roughly explains the events from the 1940s to the 1980s ( It is worth mentioning here that the opening song is Bob Dylan's classic work "The times they are a-changin'"). Now let me tell you what I know about the main characters in the film.
The first one to talk about the joker first, maybe because the joker was killed at the beginning, I chose the joker as the first one. The smiley's logo is the smiley badge, and the movie starts with a bloody smiley face and ends with a tomato juice smiley face at the end. In fact, the seemingly crazy joker is the first person to see everything clearly, and he is the one who sees it the clearest until the end. I still remember his line "The watchman is just a joke, everything is just a joke, it's all just a fucking joke." The authorities are fans, bystanders are clear, the joker is the first among the watchmen to see that "Heroes can save lives, but they can't." Humanity" one. He has already seen the darkness and greed of human nature thoroughly, so he chose to live in a hurry after the war, which is why he did many things that ordinary people seem unbearable (shooting at pregnant women, at protesting people) He shot and attempted to rape the Silk Ghost Generation), all because he saw through the selfishness and ignorance of human nature, but he was helpless.
Speaking of Dr. Manhattan, Dr. Manhattan is the only superhero in Watchmen with superpowers. It can be said that Dr. Manhattan is no longer a human being. He is a god. In a sense, when his thoughts surpass human beings, he is already a god. He understands the sinister nature of human nature, so he shows indifference to everything. The only thing he cares about is the second generation of Silk Ghost, just like his words to Silk Ghost, "You are the last link between me and this human society." Watching the joker kill the pregnant woman, but he didn't stop it (the joker seemed to pause on purpose to see Dr. Manhattan's reaction) at the beginning, Dr. Manhattan has lost his humanity, replaced by the calmness and even the expression of anything. It is the indifferent divinity, so when he was framed by his ex-girlfriend, he chose to go to Mars; it is precisely because he is a god that he has lost too much humanity, so he will not care about Sigui cheating with Ye Xiao. But later, when Sigui advised him to go back to save mankind, his love words were really touching, "When you left me and I left the earth, isn't it enough to express my sincerity?" But in the end, even as a god, Dr. Manhattan couldn't stop him. Pharaoh, who wanted to bring miracles to mankind, had to choose a compromise to protect the peace built on lies (this place has similarities and deeds with TDK, maybe it’s more similar, Dr. Manhattan also learned from that” The Light Knight" became the "Dark Knight"), and even for this he had blood on his hands - killing Rorschach. Even God lost to humanity in the end, and his last sentence "I can change almost everything, but not the nature of man." The implication is profound. Maybe that's why he said "I'm leaving this galaxy and going somewhere less complicated."
Let's talk about Pharaoh. In fact, strictly speaking, Pharaoh is not a bad person. He makes us understand that there is no justice or evil, only different purposes and different positions. He also sees human nature more thoroughly. The reason why he discloses his identity as a watchman is because he also realizes that people need heroes in times of war, and when the war ends, these superheroes will become people's concerns or even threats. In some respects, he was right to regard Dr. Manhattan as the enemy of the people. In some respects, it was precisely because of the existence of Dr. Manhattan that the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union continued to escalate. Pharaoh is the smartest person in the world. Even God had to choose to compromise with him in the end. He killed 15 million people in exchange for peace in the world. As he said, "I have felt death, and I have seen all the innocent faces that I have killed for the sake of time and peace." This kind of question is really difficult to decide. If he does not do this, through this extreme way to maintain world peace, Then the whole world may be destroyed because of the nuclear crisis, which is like the question of "kill one good boy or one hundred bad boys, you must choose one". So in a sense, Pharaoh is also a kind of heroism and a kind of justice. Pharaoh He taught us that there is no right and no evil, only different purposes and different positions.
As for the second generation of Ye Xiao and the second generation of Silk Ghost, I think they have nothing to say. The two of them also saw human nature, and the two of them also chose to compromise. After all, everyone has different ideas, which is different from other Watchmen. They are different, they also understand that if there is peace, there is no need for vigilantes like Watchmen, but the two of them just want to live a normal life.
Let’s talk about Rorschach well, watching the whole movie gave me the biggest impact and the deepest impression on Rorschach. Rorschach gives people the same feeling as Deadpool, an anti-superhero, but it also makes some people feel that he is a bit too extreme and abnormal. Rorschach is the only one among the watchmen who has always adhered to his principles. It is because he has always adhered to the justice in his heart that he can make a deep impression on people. With the development of the social and international situation, the other watchmen have made corresponding compromises, but only Rorschach has always insisted on the justice in his heart, so he will say "why are there so few heroes with normal psychology". What I remember most clearly is the story of how he went to save the little girl, "People go to prison, but dogs die." When he said it, the pain and hatred in his heart could be felt through the screen. Ye Xiao said that Rorschach has always lived under the mask, but Rorschach said, "I took off the disguise, put them on, and became myself." Yes, when Rorschach put on the mask that changed patterns, he Only when you can rest assured to uphold the justice in your heart can you be your truest self. Rorschach has always insisted on his justice, and he has sent countless prisoners to prison. After he arrived in prison, almost everyone was his enemy, but he was not afraid. In prison, he said to many enemies, "I was not forced to You are locked up together, you are forced to be locked up with me" is full of momentum, and he is still the Rorschach who insists on himself. He has always insisted on his own justice, and when he finally compromised with God, he still said, "Never compromise, even in the face of the end of the world." He accused Dr. Manhattan's ruthless divinity and the establishment that the Pharaoh exchanged for a few people's lives. Peace based on lies, and the satisfaction of night owl and silk ghosts in life, he believes that people should know the truth. But when people knew the truth, the peace that was exchanged for 15 million innocent lives disappeared. In the end, he compromised. From the moment he decided to let Dr. Manhattan kill him, he had already compromised. He had already decided to maintain the peace that was resolutely based on lies, but at the same time he had never compromised, even in death. This is where we will discover how insignificant Rorschach's personal justice is in the face of the justice of the world. But Rorschach was also a winner in the end. His record of Rorschach was discovered, and this ending also left a lot of room for the audience to think.
The story of the black cargo ship shown to us in comic form by the little boy next to the newsstand is really eye-catching. Personally, I think the story of the black cargo ship is very meaningful and played a finishing touch in the film. This story makes the film's performance more perfect. Unfortunately, I didn't understand much of this story. In the story, a captain and his crew were all killed. The captain went to great lengths to save his hometown that was attacked by black cargo ships, but in the end he discovered that there were no black cargo ships to invade his hometown, and he was still under blind impulse. killed his own family. Such a struggling captain is exactly what the watchmen in the movie experienced. I think Rorschach is the one who can best represent the captain of the black cargo ship. There are many similarities between the two of them. For example, the two of them have always insisted on the kind of justice that they think in their hearts. They both agreed in the end. Clear the world. The ending of the captain also brings people to think: Are the watchmen heroes or masked criminals?
I haven't read the original "Watchmen" comics, and I can't fully understand the movie, but I know that "Watchmen" is an epic masterpiece like "The Dark Knight", and the guide really makes me Impressive, I always want to compare these two films, but I found that there is no difference between the two films, they are both very deep films, but the way of expression is different, like this kind of deep It is a good movie that deserves people to think about and dig deeper.
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