Good And Evil In The Film Watchmen

Watchmen is a film directed by Zack Snyder with inspiration from the graphic novel of the same name. It tells the story of a hero named Rorschach trying to find the murderer of another hero, The Comedian, only to find a disturbing secret along the way. Rorschach, The Comedian, Ozymandias, and Dr. Manhattan are all used in Watchmen to convey that the boundaries between good and evil are not always clear. The first character, Rorschach sees everything as right and wrong with nothing in between. Rorschach relentlessly investigates the murder of The Comedian. Everyone else in the story could care less about The Comedian due to his aggressiveness. Rorschach, however, only sees a murder and a criminal that needs to pay for it. The other characters …show more content…
When Blake fought in Vietnam his face was permanently scarred by a civilian woman. In rage he shot and killed the woman who happened to be pregnant with his child. Blake chose to murder his lover rather than take her back to America, but he did save her country from Communism and helped put an end to the war. Eddie Blake also was shown to have aggressively beat the rioters prior to the banning of vigilantes. He knows that the civilians are only rioting because of the costumed heroes but still beats them down, which only makes matters worse. He shot at plain folk who were just confused and angry, however those people were also rioting in the streets causing destruction to the city. When Ozymandias held the crimebusters meeting, the Comedian burned down the plan to fight against crime claiming it made no difference what they do. Blake thinks that no matter what he or anyone else does will make any difference because the world will soon be at nuclear war, leaving Earth in ruins. However even though The Comedian stops fighting crime because he considers it useless, he does join the government and their fight in Vietnam, and becomes one of their top combat