Watcher: Rorschach-a man staring into the abyss.

I've always wanted to play Watcher for a long time. I have been stunned by Rorschach's erin brockovich since I watched Watcher in bed one night during the summer vacation two years ago, and I can't get over it for a long time.

The reason why I haven't started writing is because I haven't found the right angle to cut in. This story is still too big for my reading ability now. I tried to analyze it twice and both ended in failure. But just a few nights ago, when I couldn't sleep at three o'clock in the middle of the night to think about my life, I suddenly found a breakthrough in analyzing Rorschach.

The above is actually nonsense, and then we began to get down to business.

(Note that since the film is almost entirely based on comics, the two are also interpreted together in the following. )

Spoiler alert.

I have tried to analyze Rorschach before, but I can't get around Nietzsche in my mind. Because in the original comic book, Rorschach's story quoted Nietzsche's "Don't stare into the abyss":

It was not until I saw a video the other day about the nihilism of Bojack the centaur that I suddenly thought: Yes! How can a pessimist like Nietzsche become a breakthrough in analyzing Rorschach? Rorschach is a person who talks about "erin brockovich" all day. How to interpret the light of human nature from his body with frustrated pessimism? So I moved existentialism to Rorschach, and the whole set of behavioral logic system of this character slowly unfolded in front of me.

Existential nihilism is the nihilism we experience when we realize that our life has no intrinsic meaning. When a person finds that his life has no intrinsic meaning, value and order, he will fall into such nihilism.

Rorschach's past experience in the story pushed Rorschach to this nihilism.

His mother was a prostitute, and his father was absent when he was growing up. His mother has always regarded Rorschach as a burden, and we can't even know whether his mother loves him or not.

Rorschach, who grew up in this loveless environment, became not good at getting along with others, and her personality was very gloomy and withdrawn. Later, he grew up in the street. Because of his background and eccentric personality, he naturally became the target of bullying by street gangsters. Rorschach's handling of bullying (biting off a piece of meat from the gangster's face) also shows his extreme behavior in this harsh environment. The moral standards generally observed by the public are not feasible for him, and he must take more extreme measures to ensure his basic safety.

Rorschach, who grew up in this environment, was constantly destroyed and disintegrated in his world, so the keynote of his life was nihilism. In his own words: "Understanding this corrupt society and waiting for it to recover is tantamount to compromise."

"Life is meaningless" is Rorschach's cognition of the world, because there are not enough beautiful things in his life to ignite his hope for this world, and he only has deep despair for this world.

The philosopher Kierkegaard believes that "despair is an important part of human experience", and this despair is full of contradictions.

Rorschach's transformation began with a murder.

This case made Rorschach despair of human beings. This despair contains contradictions. On the one hand, he hates the status quo of the world. On the other hand, he himself belongs to this evil world, which is unbearable for him. So he put on a mask and divided himself into two identities.

Under the mask, he is the tramp, holding the placard of "Doomsday is coming" all day and walking through the streets of the city. In this capacity, he chose to do nothing about the world and let it rot until the final seemingly inevitable ending (the background of the story is the Cold War, when the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union was very tense and nuclear war was imminent).

Above the mask, he is Rorschach, a mask hero. He chooses to change the world with his own tiny strength. Even after attacking criminals again and again, he gets deeper despair of human nature.

Continue to move out of the philosopher Kierkegaard's statement: "The only way to overcome this despair is to accept the absurdity of reality and live by faith."

In Sartre's well-known words, "Existentialism is a way to respond to the meaningless universe by creating meaning."

Here, the significance of Rorschach's creation lies in justice.

The turning point of Rorschach's character is to investigate a girl kidnapping case.

The criminal kidnapped the girl and demanded a ransom, but the girl's family couldn't raise enough money, so the kidnapper killed the girl. When Rorschach arrived at the scene, he only saw two vicious dogs fighting for the leg bones of the girl who was eating food.

The girl who was eaten by a dog made Rorschach accept the absurdity of this world and made him realize the nothingness of life. He must make a choice between this nothingness.

One option is that under the mask, the identity of a tramp represents his non-participation and inaction in this world. He will spend his life in a muddle, and his existence means nothing to this world, and the world means nothing to him. His life value has completely dissolved.

But obviously, Rorschach chose another way: he realized that life was meaningless, so he decided to define the meaning of life himself, and the meaning of life he chose was to pursue justice.

So the following scene appeared:

"It was Rorschach who opened his eyes."

He abandoned the identity of a tramp and chose the identity of a masked hero, ending the state of identity division. In this cognitive identity, the meaning of his life lies in upholding justice, and the foothold of his life is to realize his life value (of course, this is also the foothold of many of us).

Because of this, at the end of the story, Pharaoh killed a large number of citizens to force people to face a greater threat (dr. manhattan), so that the United States and the Soviet Union stopped the Cold War and fought against the common enemy (here is the movie plot).

Faced with this result, Rorschach chose death.

He can't live in such a new world at the expense of other people's lives, because the meaning of his life has been broken, and the justice he has worked hard to maintain all his life is like a despicable joke at this time. The foundation of his existence has been shaken, and his life is meaningless in such a new world.

"erin brockovich, even in the face of the end of the world."

What he doesn't want to compromise is not so much a disappointed world as a refusal to compromise with the so-called nihilistic universe. He defended the meaning and value of human existence with his life. He made the most powerful mockery and counter-attack on those who regard life as dirt (Pharaoh), those who indulge in the grandeur of the universe and passively avoid the world (dr. manhattan), and those who have no firm will to live in a muddled life (owl and silk soul).

The most touching thing about Rorschach is that he still holds the possibility of the meaning of life in constant despair. He fights monsters, but refuses to be a monster, which is Rorschach's most charming place.