I watched the watchmen

All right all right…everyone is making reviews about this movie, but I’m not going to make a review of the plot at all, but I will try to analyze some characters and try to show you their view of the world, starting from no less, Nite Ow-…RORSCHACH:

Rorschach was scarred on his childhood, the reason?No, it’s not that they parents divorced or that his puppy was killed; it turns out that his mother was a prostitute and his father is missing.But the “worst” part, is that his mom didn’t care at all if he saw her…ehm… “doing business”, in fact, she shouted to him “I should have aborted you!”, it’s not exactly what every child wants to hear from mom, but it’s probably the best and longest conversation between both.

So, now to Rorschach mind:

As I told you his past (not all, just childhood), I’ll try to understand his concept of  “justice”.Rorschach was since from his childhood picked on by bullies, and lived among the “filthy”, so he didn’t had the best life while a kid, but it seems that when he got matured enough, his “justice”, would be nothing, but (physical) punishment.This philosophy of his, was probably because where he lived, people were often arrested and/or beaten, so he didn’t “learn” any other way to do justice, but with his own hands (and feet).One thing that I think it’s “funny”, it’s that his concept of justice, it’s A LOT similar to Kira (Light Yagami – Death Note) justice, “punish the guilty, save the innocent”, which is a simple way to take justice, that is also considered, a childish vision of justice;it’s not because someone is in jail, that you can walk in his cell and break his legs because he deserved it, there’s also the possibility of the guy being innocent.So, even that Rorschach is considered the most “realist” or “pessimistic” character, we can’t deny that his concept of justice it’s not proper for someone who DO justice.But his morbid justice, wasn’t like this all the time, he actually, used to put them in jail;that was before the little missing girl case (that I’m not going into details), that really deformed his mind and made him realise how cruel can a human being be to another human being, that’s really a shock for someone who always tried to follow the society’s concept of justice and believing it with all his might; when he found out that the girl was killed, mutilated and probably raped, he got insane (even that he doesn’t shows it), his rage was too strong, and to top that all, the murderer used the kid’s bones to feed his dogs, Rorschach couldn’t take it, he killed both dogs and the murderer in that night, extra crispy (if you have read the comic you’ll know what I’m talking about).

Some of his “friends” consider him paranoid, which is half true, because he’s the one with the attitude, but maybe, the wrong attitude.

Rorschach is one of the most clever characters that I’ve seen, and personally, one of my favorite even that I don’t share the same vision of Justice that he follows.

Now that I’m done with Rorschach, it’s Nite Owl time.

Nite Owl is one of those good ol’ super heroes, he fights for society’s justice, always get the bad guys on jail, and repeat the cycle.

In fact, this is the second Nite Owl, the first one is retired and works on an old car’s fix shop.

Nite Owl’s concept of justice is pretty much what I said, beat ‘em up, to jail, cycle.But one interesting thing, is that he’s always trying to convince Rorschach to give up on being a “hero”, that he should take care of his own personal life (which he has practically none, because at the whole movie/comic we see Rorschach unmasked, but as a street hobo, holding a big sign saying “the end is near”).Both used to be partners, but as you can assume, Nite Own gave up on being a masked hero, and tried to have a normal life, but he half succeeded on it.

Also, being partner of Rorschach, made Nite Owl realise that there’s not only the bad guys with the black cowboy hat and the good guys wearing the white hat, in fact, Rorschach is the one who wears the grey hat, and Nite Owl the white hat, the town sheriff.

As Nite Owl was supposed to be their “leader”, he was totally aware of either Rorschach and the Comedian actions, and he didn’t do anything at all with them, but trying to talk reason into their heads, if he really followed the “cop justice” he would try harder, even if that means a beating, I have two explanations for his actions.

1- He was actually learning from both Rorschach and the Comedian actions to what was the real justice and the “American dream”.

or

2- He’s trying to ignore their actions since he’s not a masked vigilant anymore and because also, they are their friends.

But one thing is right, Nite Owl never really changed his vision of justice at the whole movie/comic (unless, of course, at the very ending).As we can see, he’s the “old schooll super hero”, and always will try his best to do the right thing to everyone, even if that means to kill millions of people -STOP!-, at this time, Nite Owl saw that by killing millions of “innocents”, saves billions of “innocents”; this really got into his mind at the end of the movie, and he ultimately agreed with that extreme peace action, which I consider, when he got really mature at the super hero subject.

Well, at this point, I’m only making these two psychological analyzes, the next are:

The Comedian, and Jon.

Thank you