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The Watchmen movie proves you can be faithful to a comic and still miss its whole damn point

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The Watchmen movie proves you can be faithful to a comic and still miss its whole damn point
In a lot of ways, Watchmen, the comic series that Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons started publishing in 1986, is a story about the folly of human ambition. It’s about superheroes, and yet there are no actual heroes in the book, super or otherwise. The characters dress up in masks and costumes to serve as forces of good, or to get famous, or to indulge their most violent impulses, or to impress their parents, or some combination of those things. But they’re all ultimately forced to confront their own meaninglessness when they’re faced with forces beyond their control. In the...
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