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01 October 2009
Its deep ...so you have tobe patient and dig for it!
You need to like the film, or at least the graphic novel, to really appreciate this DVD. As a stand alone DVD, the Watchmen movie aside, I would imagine this DVD would be poorly recieved ...but fans of Watchmen will love these additional tid-bits!
The Black Freighter story and the Under the Hood mockumentry, add to the philosophical complexity of the story and leave you pondering futher the ethical challanges of this epic.
The Watchmen story is particularly poignant in this post 9/11, Iraq, Abu Ghraib, Katrina, economic meltdown period we're experiencing. When leaders today tackle problems, there are always difficult moral implications that come with their decisions. Rorschach and the main character from the Black Freighter for instance, tried hard to be uncompromisingly just, but their medicine is almost always too hard to swallow.
Societies expectaions of its 'heros', as depicted in the film, are also echoed in real life. I'm thinking about Bush standing on the ruble of the WTC with a bullhorn in hand and a firefighter at his side telling us, "soon our enemies will hear us". Well they heard us ...are we satisfied with the result? Did we kill all the terrorists? Did we eliminate the threat? Or did we just make more enemies?
Or how about those who are looking to Obama ('hope-without-a-cape'), to pull us from economic meltdown versus those talking heads and neigh-sayers in the media like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, who tell us he is destroying this country. There truely are no flawless heros with flawless answers ...Ghandi, MLK, Lincoln, Kennedy, all had kinks in their armor ...just like the characters in Watchmen. In the end ...they were all torn down prematurely by other men. Who watches the heros and who protects us from ourselves?