When I went to see The Watchmen a few weeks ago, the audio was all fucked up so the theater gave me a free pass. Rain check. I considered using it for a “date”, but my roommate wasn’t interested.
Young, sick Michael Berg (some foreign kid) stumbles into the hallway of a pedophile and it works out really cool. Because see he was a virgin, and she was an older chick. So basically he got to have real sex first, and then fuck the shit out of all the illegal chicks afterwards while it was still legal for him to do so. But none of that was in the movie. Just the old-on-kid stuff.
He reads to her before and after sex, and all is well. One day he shows up ta her apartment and she’s gone. This affects his relationships with women ever after. Welcome to life, kid.
Years later, in law school, he observes the trial of several female SS guards, one of which is his old flame. By now he can tell that she has incriminated herself because she was too ashamed to admit to something. Feeling pity (?), he sends her tapes in jail, reading to her again.
See, this is what I got from the movie. But their relationship is never resolved (grr), and everyone else tells me this movie was SUPPOSED to be about the generational gap in Germany and how the two reconcile with each other and with the Holocaust. Well excuse fucking me. The goddamn Holocaust wasn’t even mentioned till halfway in.
For this reason I found the entire thing very convoluted. If that message was THE message, then cut the love crap out. I’m sorry to say it, but Vonnegut was right. If you throw love into a story, all other themes fall by the wayside. Love is great, but, as usual, it consumes everything else in its path, including your plot.
Honorable mention: I got a box of Buncha Crunch in the theater. $4. No news there. I shit you not though, the thing was filled a third of the way. I mean come on. Packed by weight my fucking ass. For four fucking dollars you can at least have the courtesy to fuck me by half.
