I still haven’t seen Watchmen. What was the seminal comic book that truly opened the medium for me and it’s possibilities has become a strange bit of anxiety for me. I have had so little faith in the pop culture lens that it scares me that the message I want to be reminded of is lost. I am afraid that the only thing Snider saw was our society’s desire for flawed heros and figured if he just meticulously copied the comic book, any deeper meaning would be assumed rather than needing to be shown. I still don’t know if we have the patience or the collective perspective to truly understand a large scale presentation Watchmen really tried to present as a piece of art. America has never been good with multiple narritives, hell humanity as a whole isn’t. Look at organized religion, each different one seems to have so many different sects and takes it doesn’t take a genius to reason we aren’t good at bringing differing perspectives into one grand philosophy.
At it’s heart Watchmen is a symphony of narritives explaining one thing, heroism and villainy is really the same coin, just different sides. Idealism drives both, but that idealism really just as susceptible to perspective as any other aspect of reality. All too often the hero represents the status Quo, while the villain is the outsider. And to paraphrase a line that come from something that echo’s my point, “The status is most definitely not quo”.
It’s too late to elaborate, but I needed to say something. It’s been too long and I’ve been ignoring my gut.
1 comment:
Watchmen was really good, although I'll have to say that I haven't read the comic yet. Currently I am borrowing it from a friend and have started reading it. After flipping through the comic it is obvious that they changed some details and left stuff out, but as a movie on its own it is a good flick.
Since you know and enjoy the source material your milage may very.
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