Watchmen Film Analysis

The 2009 film “Watchmen” directed by Zack Snyder follows a group of retired superheroes as they investigate a conspiracy that’s brought up against them with a disturbing underlying plot. Along with following these heroes, we’re shown the history of these characters leading up to this point. One of the members of the group, Dr. Manhattan (formerly Jon Osterman) is the only characters in the group with actual super powers. His story explains that Jon was born in 1929 and was the son of a watchmaker. His father’s plan is to have Jon follow his footsteps until the bombing of Hiroshima happens when Jon is 16.
His father decides that instead of his original plan, Jon will study nuclear physics. Later in his story when he does become a physicist, he’s a part of an experiment involving an “intrinsic field subtractor” which uses radiation to ultimately disintegrate objects. One incident leads to another and Jon get’s trapped in the machine and his physical body is completely destroyed by the machine but also starts his transformation into Dr.Manhattan. Over the next few months, Jon gradually …show more content…
We see them looking at their silverware with confusion as it begins to magnetize and the room and the begins to shake. Directly after this and the camera points towards the same silverware as it attracts to each other with energy the same color blue that we saw on the walls . The energy being the color blue is to let us know that Dr.Manhattan’s presence is going to be made or that he is already present and has yet to reveal himself. The camera then goes back to to the medium close shot to show the characters in panic, but this time reveals even more of the color blue to us by showing us multiple blue chairs behind the characters that the shot is focused on. We are repetitively shown this shade of blue as a method