Friday, October 15, 2010

Movie Analysis: Watchmen - Astonishing Comic Book Legend

By Jessica J. Janeson

If you haven't seen the stunning and critically acclaimed "Watchmen," then you are missing out on not only a visual treat, but also a movie that shakes your concept of a superhero to it's very. Not your ordinary, run of the mill superhero movie, "Watchmen," will raise questions that you may not be ready to hear the answers to. All in all, this movie successfully combines fantastic action sequences with powerful moral dilemmas. If you haven't seen this movie yet, you should.

Our narrative follows a comparable world, presumably close to our own. Some things are naturally singular, we see Nixon captivating three terms as a president, and we see the United States effortlessly winning the Vietnam Resistance, instead of slinking away in defeat. Our story follows the path of this posse of heroes since the late fifties, in what began out as a vigilante society. The story jumps around through time, and has a magnificent yarn to tell.

Somewhere along the line, our band of super heroes was deemed dishonest, and one by one they have either been arrested, or murdered. A while has past without any action from them, until one by one they start ending up being murdered. One of their associate decides to take it upon himself to uncover the purpose behind the killings. And in doing so he must handle the other members of the now redundant mob of protectors of humanity.

Throughout these flashbacks, we learn that these heroes are far from the faultless icon we are used to in our caped crusaders. Some of them are complete vicious, and they even question the force that they hold over others. We find out that these so called fantastic heroes have participated in slaying, rape, and conspiracy to perform innumerable crimes. But do they have a adequate motivation for all of this?

As a setting to this narrative is the mounting risk of nuclear combat. That much is just as destructive to the film world as it is in real life. And the astounding ruse behind the murders is something we don't understand until the very last part of the show. Something that makes us question the old proverb of the ends mitigating the means. Is it OK to execute one person to guard a thousand? Is it ok to slaughter a thousand to shelter one million?

These are some of the real life but required questions our heroes must face. You may not agree with the decisions they create, but the route they take along the way proves to be a work of art of fighting filled tale telling. If you haven't seen "Watchmen," we exceedingly recommend it, as once you do, you will never think of a superhero in the same way. - 40727

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