I can understand your point, but I must say it is a movie I liked. As I understood it, the movie isn't about good guys and bad guys -- it's about how the worst people can have some good in them, and those that seem good can be worse than any. The narrator isn't exactly impartial -- Rorschach is about as anti-hero as you can make a character, but that just serves to show the same thing. It does take place in a dystopian, fucked-up world, but I think the point isn't to glorify this, but to repulse the viewer, to set the scene for what is in essence an anti-superhero story. Like that other comic-made-into-movie, Sin City, it's nasty and violent, but -- at least to me -- also a good story, one that shocks you into thinking about certain things. And it certainly did NOT make me think violence against women is an okay thing.
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Date: 2009-11-15 02:59 pm (UTC)As I understood it, the movie isn't about good guys and bad guys -- it's about how the worst people can have some good in them, and those that seem good can be worse than any. The narrator isn't exactly impartial -- Rorschach is about as anti-hero as you can make a character, but that just serves to show the same thing. It does take place in a dystopian, fucked-up world, but I think the point isn't to glorify this, but to repulse the viewer, to set the scene for what is in essence an anti-superhero story.
Like that other comic-made-into-movie, Sin City, it's nasty and violent, but -- at least to me -- also a good story, one that shocks you into thinking about certain things.
And it certainly did NOT make me think violence against women is an okay thing.