Terry Gilliam once proclaimed the book to be “unfilmable,” and years later, Zack Snyder proved him right, reproducing the aesthetic of the iconic comic book without an ounce of the substance. Time-skip to the present-day, to a traffic stop involving a masked policeman, and a member of the Seventh Kavalry. The mind-melting interrogation scene reveals one key detail; the Seventh Kavalry are aware that the “transdimensional attacks” are an elaborate hoax. Are the police complicit in the conspiracy, and are the Seventh Kavalry the only ones who know the truth? It’s also not clear what the Seventh Kavalry actually stand for - are they really white supremacists, or conspiracy theorists who have stumbled upon an inconvenient truth?

Source: Forbes October 22, 2019 22:18 UTC