Everybody is familiar with the most popular super heroes. Superman, Spiderman, Batman. All these heroes have one glaring thing in common. They are all unquestioningly good and morally upright. Even in the recent Batman movie, "Dark Knight," Batman is still clearly a good guy. But what happens when your super heroes are sometimes bad, and sometimes go over the line, way over the line? The result is a movie called "Watchmen," and it is not only a stunning piece of film making, but also asks, and answers some very tough questions.
Our saga follows a related world, presumably close to our own. Some things are obviously dissimilar, we see Nixon winning three terms as a president, and we see the United States effortlessly winning the Vietnam Challenge, instead of slinking away in defeat. Our narrative follows the path of this mob of heroes since the late fifties, in what began out as a vigilante association. The story jumps around through time, and has a stunning saga to tell.
Somewhere along the line, our band of fabulous heroes was deemed illegitimate, and one by one they have either been arrested, or killed. A while has past without any movement from them, until one by one they start ending up being murdered. One of their associate decides to take it upon himself to discover the explanation behind the killings. And in doing so he must contact the other members of the now defunct crowd of protectors of humankind.
All through these flashbacks, we find out that these heroes are far from the spotless icon we are used to in our caped crusaders. Some of them are complete brutal, and they even question the strength that they hold over others. We discover that these so called super heroes have participated in homicide, rape, and conspiracy to commit countless crimes. But do they have a adequate goal for all of this?
As a environment to this narrative is the growing menace of nuclear combat. That much is just as risky to the film world as it is in real life. And the surprising secret behind the murders is something we don't understand until the exact last part of the show. Something that makes us question the old proverb of the ends mitigating the means. Is it OK to assassinate one person to shelter a thousand? Is it reasonable to slaughter a thousand to defend one million?
These are some of the real life but necessary questions our heroes must face. You may not agree with the decisions they build, but the path they take along the way proves to be a work of art of combat filled story telling. If you haven't seen "Watchmen," we extremely recommend it, as once you do, you will never think of a superhero in the same way. - 40728
Our saga follows a related world, presumably close to our own. Some things are obviously dissimilar, we see Nixon winning three terms as a president, and we see the United States effortlessly winning the Vietnam Challenge, instead of slinking away in defeat. Our narrative follows the path of this mob of heroes since the late fifties, in what began out as a vigilante association. The story jumps around through time, and has a stunning saga to tell.
Somewhere along the line, our band of fabulous heroes was deemed illegitimate, and one by one they have either been arrested, or killed. A while has past without any movement from them, until one by one they start ending up being murdered. One of their associate decides to take it upon himself to discover the explanation behind the killings. And in doing so he must contact the other members of the now defunct crowd of protectors of humankind.
All through these flashbacks, we find out that these heroes are far from the spotless icon we are used to in our caped crusaders. Some of them are complete brutal, and they even question the strength that they hold over others. We discover that these so called super heroes have participated in homicide, rape, and conspiracy to commit countless crimes. But do they have a adequate goal for all of this?
As a environment to this narrative is the growing menace of nuclear combat. That much is just as risky to the film world as it is in real life. And the surprising secret behind the murders is something we don't understand until the exact last part of the show. Something that makes us question the old proverb of the ends mitigating the means. Is it OK to assassinate one person to shelter a thousand? Is it reasonable to slaughter a thousand to defend one million?
These are some of the real life but necessary questions our heroes must face. You may not agree with the decisions they build, but the path they take along the way proves to be a work of art of combat filled story telling. If you haven't seen "Watchmen," we extremely recommend it, as once you do, you will never think of a superhero in the same way. - 40728
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