By contrast, Rorschach was the Randian absolutist, the man who saw good and evil as absolute, and would never, ever back down. He figured out what Ozymandias was doing, saw it as evil, and fought against it, at the cost of his life. The Randian hero has no face because he represents the truth, the absolute reality. He locks his mask on to keep that truth in place and push his weaknesses and fears away. The mask is a barrier between the world and himself. At the end, in the comic, he tears the mask away revealing a pathetic looking man and demands that Dr Manhattan kill him. Yet his writings survive, sent to a Rush Limbaugh-like tabloid publisher, revealing the truth behind the ghastly plot Ozymandias triggered.
18.3.09
Interesting Nietzsche/Rand analysis RE: The Watchmen
I'll probably kick myself for not watching The Watchmen in the theater, but I hate going. Anyway, some good thinking can be found here about the book and film:
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