bggrthnjsus
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haven't seen it yet so i can't specifically answer your question buttraveler said:
i think in the book it is not so much the squid that he is afraid of but what it represents, a conspiracy to fix humanity by destroying a chunk of it...and that's why he really takes his 'it's all just a big joke anyway' mentality so far. remember that the comedian really shares a lot of ideals with rorschach, and he faces the same conflict that rorschach does at the end, trying to reconcile the deaths of so many innocent people with protecting america from nuclear war...although it's a little more of an interesting conflict with rorschach who was so in favor of using nuclear weapons in ww2 to prevent american deaths...i think we were meant to assume that the comedian looks at it the same way
also, rt is down to 73% now (and 1/7 cream of the crop reviews positive) :/
still pretty excited after watching that hbo thing, but i'm not expecting it to have as well developed themes as the book. most of the cream of the crop reviews (ok except thr and hollywood reporter, those are pretty mindless reviews) seem to have the same issue: that the movie is obsessively loyal to the preservation of the images and plot of the novel (barring the ending), but to the point where the themes and conflicts are drowned out. and while having read the novel i assume that the conflict will still strike me, it will be because i expect them...i can see how somebody who has not read the book would miss them and see only a over-stylized visual extravaganza. and this is what i think the reviewers are pointing out; it's not that they haven't read the novel or don't 'get it', it's more that they can see how somebody who hasn't seen the novel might miss those things, and the reviewers are most likely looking at the movie as a film that should have been effective for everybody, not just people who have read the book.
