A great film that reminds me of Nietzsche

Rating: 9/10 (11 May 2010)

I didn't read the novel, and I somehow missed out the whole movie when it started in the theaters. Today i finally watched it, expecting nothing special. The genre of the "superheroe-movies" really bores me, but the alternative would have been a an old CSI-episode ;).
I expected nice effects- nothing more. Ever since the great Song: The sound of silence, started, i realized that this movie, was kid of "different". It surly is edgy, and forces the viewer to "think along". After an hour i had to press the stop button- taking a time-out. I was stunned, confused, and delighted. How come that such a gem was hidden under the cheesy wrap of "superheroe-movie". In fact, 99% of all films, are a panegyric ovation of the world "as we know it". In any other movie, Adrians plan would have been prevented in the last second. Not in this one. The viewer has to face the situation and decide for himself, how to judge it. As you can read in lots of comments, some people are unable to cope with that situation- and seek refuge in a bad rating ;). An absolutely unjust act, but considering the state of mind of the average "cinemagoer", the imperfect valuation, wins watchmen just more honor. The movie is great. A feast for an educated, open mind. An upset for those who like films like Gi-Joe. Its full of metaphors, symbols and allusions. F.e.: Dr. Manhattan, the super-human, turned into a uniting enemy image, benefactor and archenemy of the human- a clear allegory to Prometheus/Lucifer.
Since "Fight Club", I haven't seen a movie, that deals, in such a great way with the question: Is an "end of history" (Francis Fukuyama), that the intellectuals and abstract thinkers yearn for, an appropriate goal? Or lies the meaning of life within the chaotic, eternal state of war- the diversity itself. The classic struggle between Heraklit and Parmenides.
While John represents, the abstract idea and universalism, Adrian is the heroic narcissist, megalomaniacal and ruthless enough to enforce what the idea just stands for. Dan is the obsolete moral of the bourgeois- unable to make a clear decision- while Rohrschach is the Anarchist, the Individualist, Nationalist, Extremist, the Chaos itself, that rejects, the abstract, global rationality. (Like Nietzsche killing "god") In the final scene, when his diary i found I involuntarily remembered Nietzsches poem: Unter Feinden - Among enemies.
"Unnütz, unnütz, mich zu hängen! Sterben? Sterben kann ich nicht!
Futile, futile hanging me. dying? dying? I can't die!
Chaos prevails!
A film that reminds me of Nietzsche is accepted in the inner circle of my all time favorites.