The death of Walter Kovacs
Watchmen is one of Zack Snyder’s most ambitious projects. As far as I’m concerned, it’s also one of the better superhero movies I’ve seen. Sure, at times it would have been better without the voice-over. At other times, it might have worked better without the use of slow-motion.
In the scene I’m talking about here, Rorschach remembers the night when Walter Kovacs, his former self, died. This was when he found out how cruel and without reason the world can be.
It’s one of the most brutal scenes ever, with Jackie Earle Haley’s character repeatedly hitting a murderer in the head with a cleaver. What makes it even more violent is how he described it to the psychiatrist as if it were one of the purest epiphanies of his life.
What do you think? What other scenes should be on this list?
