Because I suck at life, I was unable to post last Friday. Excuse 1, I needed to sleep due to the Watchmen primere the night before, Excuse 2, I wanted to watch Dollhouse, and Excuse 3, do not question your God.
Most of you are familiar with the new Watchmen movie, but I'm going to choose to ignore this film until a later date and instead focus on the original comic book. The graphic novel is gritty and realistic in such a way that you forget that the pretense is a little silly, you forget that none of this is real, and you are completely sucked into the implications of the text. The novel (and it is a novel) is entirely about how the phrase "Life is meaningless" actually affects humanity. If life is meaningless, than how should we behave? Watchmen is a character study about how different standpoints on life all ultimately lead the reader to the conclusion that if life is meaningless, than nothing matters, right and wrong are purposeless, and we only exist because of some freak chance beyond our control.
Camus' "The Stranger" personified existentialism, but Watchmen realizes what this means for humanity. If we, actual humans, truly believed as Meursault believed, then the actions of the Watchmn would be the terrifying results. I urge you, I implore you, read the comic book. Even if you don't like comics, you will like the depth and emotional resonance in this one.
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