Love Power Peace

I saw the movie Watchmen yesterday. I liked it. Now, it’s gotten a load of bad reviews and fans of the graphic novel are upset. I know all of that. But I don’t care, because I thought it was fantastic. Here’s why.

 

Though Watchmen is a dark movie, though it is bleak and pessimistic, it is spot on in its critique of human nature. We are dark people. There is a part in the movie where Rorschach (interesting character) is talking about the evils of the world—how these evils are not from God but caused by man—by the darkness in man’s heart.

 

We all want to be loved. We all want power over people. We all want peace.

 

It’s dark. But I see almost every movement in my life, in mankind’s history, as a movement to one of these principles: To be loved, To be powerful, To be at peace. We are low. We are dark. We are evil.

 

But that is before grace came into the picture.

 

“Every day I have to find the courage to walk out into the street with arms out; I got a love you cant defeat. Neither down nor out, there’s nothing you have that I need, I can breathe.”

 

And instead of darkness, there is light. Instead of evil, there is good. Instead of power, there is love. Instead of low, there is high. Instead of us, there is Christ.

 

Watchmen is correct about the world if there is no God, no grace.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But there is