Good on you. I haven't read it for a couple of years, maybe more. I found it very tough going. That recognition of our childhood signals -- oh yeah. The all consuming war that never came . . . I do mean to read it again, it's just . . . daunting.
An absolutely devastating critique of the superman, the superhero. Hit me real hard when I got dragged to see The Incredibles (with, of all things, a bunch of lefty environmentalist lesbians. They didn't tell me there would be children to entertain). Moore really puts his thumb on putting faith in supermen.
Moore has a real, and perhaps prurient, interest in pushing the boundaries on sex. I couldn't get through Lost Girls. The rape subplot worked for me, but I work on a lot of cases that aren't all that far off from what he's describing, without even the dignity that Silk Spectre One arguably brings to it. In our lifetime, in this state, a husband was privileged to use force to have intercourse with his wife and no crime was committed; it was a privilege of marriage. I could tell you stories . . .
I have a dangerous amount of sympathy for Ozymandias, I have to confess. Though I suspect I'm more of a Niteowl as much as that embarrasses me.
FWIW, I liked the movie. I thought the change they made made a whole lot of sense, even if I do like Cthulhu shout outs. Jeremy did not like it. He resented the hell out of the loss of the Black Freighter story line. But once you figure out that the guy is eating Rorschack -- Raw Shark -- it's in there. Just implicit.
As you say, Moore wants you to hear what our deontologicalist Rorschach says. Nicely said, cos. There are times that's enough for me. There are other times where I just think that's self indulgence. We don't live in the pure land. we live in this one.
Get this; my copy is in Utah. Jeremy leant it to his mother. Who read it. She's so much cooler than my parents.
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Date: 2009-09-19 05:41 am (UTC)An absolutely devastating critique of the superman, the superhero. Hit me real hard when I got dragged to see The Incredibles (with, of all things, a bunch of lefty environmentalist lesbians. They didn't tell me there would be children to entertain). Moore really puts his thumb on putting faith in supermen.
Moore has a real, and perhaps prurient, interest in pushing the boundaries on sex. I couldn't get through Lost Girls. The rape subplot worked for me, but I work on a lot of cases that aren't all that far off from what he's describing, without even the dignity that Silk Spectre One arguably brings to it. In our lifetime, in this state, a husband was privileged to use force to have intercourse with his wife and no crime was committed; it was a privilege of marriage. I could tell you stories . . .
I have a dangerous amount of sympathy for Ozymandias, I have to confess. Though I suspect I'm more of a Niteowl as much as that embarrasses me.
FWIW, I liked the movie. I thought the change they made made a whole lot of sense, even if I do like Cthulhu shout outs. Jeremy did not like it. He resented the hell out of the loss of the Black Freighter story line. But once you figure out that the guy is eating Rorschack -- Raw Shark -- it's in there. Just implicit.
As you say, Moore wants you to hear what our deontologicalist Rorschach says. Nicely said, cos. There are times that's enough for me. There are other times where I just think that's self indulgence. We don't live in the pure land. we live in this one.
Get this; my copy is in Utah. Jeremy leant it to his mother. Who read it. She's so much cooler than my parents.