Watchmen - Rorschach's Death (HQ)
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When I first read The Watchmen what got to me was that the entire way through I was rooting for Ozymandias/Veidt, in retrospect. But there's that last moment, right before Rorschach has to be killed, where you just feel like complete and utter shit because you know that the final act for good must be to utterly destroy this uncompromising avatar of truth and justice.
What's one more body in the foundation indeed, but the truth is you can tell that this one body was different.
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No matter how many times i see the movie i always cry D:
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The term "good" is certainly up to interpretation.
In the end, Manhattan and Ozymandias averted catastrophe in the form of another World War, which surely would have resulted in loss of life on a much larger scale.
"The desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy," does it not? Would the destruction of our species as a whole be a preferable alternative to the deaths of a select few? I should hardly think so.
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I was so pissed that rorschach died and those assholes veidt and dr manhattan lived
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Didn't see the movie or comic but all I know from the commericals was that I f**king hate Dr. whoever! Rorschach seemed to be the only good guy :( fucking blue man die in a hole!!! >.<
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@NakedSteve4u is that good or bad?
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@robirdsfilmmaker This sounds like the typical generic "oh so politically motivated" comment I hear on a daily basis.
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@Moogitard That's very intense!
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It's easy to hate Dr Manhattan for killing Rorschach to preserve the lies needed for peace - but also consider this - Rorschach telling the -truth- would actually -exonerate- him of all those deaths. Keeping the lie alive - which is his choice - makes the world believe that HE killed those people. He barely cares for humanity, but he does care for them more than he cares for his own -good name-, unlike Veidt.
They're both heroes - just that the viewer is made to identify with Rorschach more.
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@ixl911ixl Okay. Why?
I admire Rorshach's determination to stick to what he believes in. Earlier he says that he must never comprimise or surrender even in the face of armagedon. In the verry end he stuck to that. It wasn't that he didn't want to live in a worldd built around a lie. It was the fact that when he saw Dr Manhattan outside he knew that he couldn't leave without agreeing to what the others were doing. He believed so heavily in justice that he knowingly sealed his own fate in the name of justice.
Moogitard 3 weeks ago 37
Batman wasn't very happy about that.
ixl911ixl 1 week ago 7