DVD RATING: C- (Skip It) Tales of the Black Freighter is a companion release to correspond with the theatrical release of Watchmen. An animated narrative of the comic within the comic that appeared in the Watchmen graphic novel, Freighter is a skillfully animated short. A cross between Dante’s Inferno and Pirates of the Caribbean, the film is a gruesome account of one mans survival amid isolation. The moral of the tale indirectly mirrors the storylines of Veidt and Manhattan in Watchmen; a man pushed to the limits of exile who is acting with the blind hope of staving off disaster.
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