Film 'Watchmen' is treasure trove for philosophers

[David Morris]

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2009/03/09/090309crci_cinema_lane

The bad news about “Watchmen” is that it grinds and squelches on for
two and a half hours, like a major operation. The good news is that
you don’t have to stay past the opening credit sequence—easily the
highlight of the film.
[...]
“Watchmen,” like “V for Vendetta,” harbors ambitions of political
satire, and, to be fair, it should meet the needs of any leering
nineteen-year-old who believes that America is ruled by the
military-industrial complex, and whose deepest fear—deeper even than
that of meeting a woman who requests intelligent conversation—is that
the Warren Commission may have been right all along. The problem is
that Snyder, following Moore, is so insanely aroused by the look of
vengeance, and by the stylized application of physical power, that the
film ends up twice as fascistic as the forces it wishes to lampoon.
The result is perfectly calibrated for its target group: nobody over
twenty-five could take any joy from the savagery that is fleshed out
onscreen, just as nobody under eighteen should be allowed to witness
it.


2009/3/5 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
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