Much of what “Watchmen” is about — and Damon Lindelof’s substantial adaptation of Alan Moore’s sprawling graphic novel is about quite a lot — can be summed up in a joke. Well, it’s not really a joke, but the cunning and cutting Jean Smart still sells it that way.
“You know how you can tell the difference between a masked cop and a vigilante?” Smart, as FBI Agent Laurie Blake, asks.
No-bullshit Tulsa police detective Angela Abar, played by Regina King, answers plainly, as expected: “No.”
“Me either,” Laurie says — and that’s the end of the joke.
Masks, identities, and the murky, muddled truth they form are central themes of “Watchmen.” If the cops and criminals wear masks, how do you tell them apart? Who’s the hero and who’s the villain? Who, in other words, do you trust? Looking beyond the veils people share with the world,...
“You know how you can tell the difference between a masked cop and a vigilante?” Smart, as FBI Agent Laurie Blake, asks.
No-bullshit Tulsa police detective Angela Abar, played by Regina King, answers plainly, as expected: “No.”
“Me either,” Laurie says — and that’s the end of the joke.
Masks, identities, and the murky, muddled truth they form are central themes of “Watchmen.” If the cops and criminals wear masks, how do you tell them apart? Who’s the hero and who’s the villain? Who, in other words, do you trust? Looking beyond the veils people share with the world,...
- 10/15/2019
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
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