WATCHMEN (2009) dir. ZACK SNYDER

Watchmen (2009) dir. Zack Snyder

What happened to us? What happened to the American Dream?

I was sitting in this exact spot almost… a hundred years ago. This was silent movie house before they built it back up. My mama played the piano right over there. It burnt, too. Last thing I saw before my world ended was Bass Reeves, the Black Marshal of Oklahoma. Fifteen feet tall in flickering black and white. “Trust in the law,” he said. And I did. So, I took his name after Tulsa burned. He was my hero. That’s why I became a cop. Then, I realized, there’s a reason why Bass Reeves hid his face. So, I hid mine, too. 

Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I’ve longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that in human coupling, millions upon millions of cells compete to create life, for generation after generation until, finally, your mother loves a man: Edward Blake, the Comedian, a man she has every reason to hate, and out of that contradiction, against unfathomable odds, it’s you — only you — that emerged. To distill so specific a form, from all that chaos; it’s like turning air into gold. A miracle. Now dry your eyes, and let’s go home.

WATCHMEN
2009 | dir. Zack Snyder

“People’s lives take them strange places. They do strange things, and sometimes they can’t talk about them… I know how that is.”

– Watchmen (2009) dir. Zack Snyder

Watchmen (2009) dir. Zack Snyder

Tonight, a comedian died in New York. Somebody knows why. Somebody knows.

Watchmen (2009) dir. Zack Snyder

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