Two-sidedness of the watchman

Two-sidedness of the watchman

——Viewing the "Watcher"

There are four seasons in a year, warm and cold; day and night, light and dark. In an era and society, the watchmen are like the rain in the warm spring, the glory in the cold winter, the shade in the hot sun, and the bright moon in the night!

The watchmen have a bright moon. They love the times, the society, and the motherland. They go deep into the ages of their own fields, bravely tell the ominous signs of society, ignore their own safety, turn into a bright moon, and guide us to advance in the dark.

The watchman is the soul and sunshine of an era. The silent era of the watchman is a night, and every era needs a watchman. Every era has watchers, their hearts are unchanging, and they are unmoved, but in any era of silence that cannot be heard of evil words, their figures will be covered up. From the early Han Dynasty, Zhang Liang and Xiao He Because of doubts and retreat from self-protection, Lu family eventually won the Han Dynasty world; then to the mid-Ming of the eunuch's dictatorship, all of this. This is the most alarming phenomenon of an era, because when the source of the age is not clear, and the gates of progress are rusting and unable to open, the end of an era is not far away.

The words in "Watcher" are very rich. I am deeply impressed by two sentences. One is the role of Dr. Manhattan in his solitary monologue. "When I look at the stars, they are so far away, the stars have passed so many light years. It’s just my eyes, but it’s just what they have lost years ago...”. Another sentence is the monologue of another character: "My life is simply a big joke", which means that the whole world and human beings are also a big joke. Each of the characters has sharp edges and corners, each other's strengths and weaknesses, and different world views and outlooks on life drive the ups and downs of the entire movie story. Even the few villains inside have their views that they cannot be easily condemned.

In fact, I really miss the American superhero movies in the 1980s. There is no political form of restraint. Without the introduction of realism, bad guys are bad guys, good guys are good guys, and heroes destroy the bad guys. It may be because of growing up, the world outlook has changed, and the interests, politics, and nation have been introduced. Many things have become very chaotic and cannot find a correct sense of direction. In addition, "Watcher" itself is an anti-heroism, and after reading it, people can't stop thinking.

One of the conflicts in the watchmen is the conflict between the watchers themselves and the people. In fact, all the superheroes can be regarded as chaotic camps. They do not succumb to the mainstream constraints and rely on their own methods to achieve justice. Such a group of people is essentially a group of people who trample on the law. In the world of watchmen, the government suppresses superheroes and enacts laws that bind them, and the people are not slower than them, thinking that they have no right to exercise justice on their own. In this way, the heroes are actually the same thing as the criminals. They are all people who trample on social rules. The only difference is that the heroes trample on the rules to protect the majority.

When the citizens in the film were demonstrating, someone had sprayed a sentence on the window glass: Who is going to restrain the watchman? Yes, this is where the contradiction lies. After wearing a mask, you can't know who is doing these things. Then, when these people have the ability to act arbitrarily, can they really do everything for justice and for the people? The watcher, code-named "comedian", gave the answer. He loves to kill everywhere. The situation is somewhat like Wolverine's brother, the saber-toothed tiger. The innocent people who died in his hands are no longer a minority, but he is a loyal person who follows the government. Therefore, the people’s demonstrations against the watchmen are actually against A government that abuses power.

And justice overcomes evil, and after darkness will be infinitely bright, all happy endings, and the everlasting painstaking efforts of the ancients are like the unchanging endings of fairy tales - "...they have lived happily ever since..." The longing for a good life cannot deny people's behaviors of happiness. However, the cruelty and indifference of reality is something that everyone does not want to accept but has to accept. The extreme of excessively beautiful rendering becomes hypocritical.

In general, this is a tragedy, a very realistic surrealist film, stripped of its eccentricity, its core may be regarded as a literary film. The film appeared like a comic version a long time ago. Although it did not achieve a revolutionary change in superhero-type movies and comics, the black gloomy overall atmosphere stimulated the violent scenes of human senses and psychological endurance, as well as the naked guilt. It refers to the truth that people do not want to admit, but they have to face, which has had a big impact on the past superhero movies. The latter is obsessed with hero worship and removes the darkness of reality; the former exposes more to the two sides of the superhero and their doubts, ridicule, understanding and sympathy.

The second day: see the cherry blossoms covered with stars