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...attack left an estimated 1,300 Palestinians dead and sent residents in nearby Sderot scrambling into underground shelters. But the subjects in Gaza-Sderot remain blissfully unaware of the looming disaster; there is little talk of politics at all. Instead, people go about their humdrum lives: a slender young man frets over his mediocre boxing skills in a Sderot sports club; friends in Gaza play music around a wood fire; a woman shops for dinner in the Sderot market; a group of Gazan girls chat after a volleyball game about power outages. Says one girl: "We'll be living...
...lived through, and then there is the America guarded by the Watchmen, founded in 1940 as the Minutemen. In this parallel nation, in the Times Square revelry on V-J day, a nurse was kissed by the slinky superheroine Silhouette. J.F.K. greeted Dr. Manhattan, the preternatural, irradiated blue man, at the White House and was gunned down by the splenetic, cigar-chomping Comedian. A U.S. astronaut walked on the moon and found Dr. M. waiting for him. In 1971, President Richard Nixon sent Manhattan and the Comedian to Vietnam; the war was over within a week, and Nixon was elected...
...with the other films made from his stuff (From Hell, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Constantine, V for Vendetta), Moore has declined screen credit on the Watchmen movie. But whatever his thoughts on the corruptive properties of cinema, he could have found no more devoted Watch-man than Snyder, who willed the project into screen reality after Terry Gilliam and others failed. The ultimate fetishist auteur, Snyder takes hallowed pulp artifacts--the '70s horror movie Dawn of the Dead, the Frank Miller graphic novel 300 and now this--and films them with the near fanatic fidelity of someone constructing...
...Alex Tse have brought coherence to a plot that often lurches into flashbacks within flashbacks. The section showing the mutation of mild-mannered scientist Jon Osterman (Billy Crudup) into Dr. Manhattan is a gem of lucid storytelling. Shuffling the sequence of tenses, the film shows Jon as a young man in love, a fellow scarred by a nuclear accident, a boy watching his watchmaker dad, a superhero who can change size and location at will, a middle-aged stud letting his old love slip away as he finds someone younger, and finally, a sad sack of blue mourning the ordinary...
...couple's eccentricities abounded, and Antoinette never played them down. She had, after all, helped bring Ernie back from a life of alcoholism and penury following his initial success, resurrecting a man who lived to perform in the elaborate outfits that she often stitched together...