The Dark Knight is...

[fagcunt]

..at least really disappointing, and probably not a good movie. Heath Ledger is really good in it, but there isn't that much of him, and it feels like they held back on his craziness. I'm not sure if I'm a fuddy duddy, but The Dark Knight was like X-men 3 where it was just one silly plot point after another with very little character development,

Comments

[gorillagorilla]

well i agree that's one way to look at it. i mean they kind of make that point at the end of the movie but that felt tacked on to me, like they were like "oh shit, isn't this movie supposed to be about batman?" it wasn't until the last 5 minutes that suddenly the movie was about how it was ok for batman to be evil. most of the second half was about how it wasn't ok for batman to be evil.

i don't think the people on the boats were supposed to be deified or anything, just that they're fundamentally decent and that batman and the joker are both fundamentally corrupt. harvey dent is the only character that has any power in the movie that attempts to do anything lawfully or ethically (and jim gordon maybe, but to a lesser extent), and he is inevitably corrupted.

i don't think the movie was making the argument that batman lying is ok as long as its for the greater good, but that people in power inevitably come to that decision. and more than that, about the fear that that is the case, and that there's really no one worth believing in.

i guess it depends on whether you interpret the last scenes of the movie as being christopher nolan driving home his point or batman flacidly trying to defend his actions to himself.

i think the former is a fair way to interpret the movie, but to me, the whole thing is too tense and dark and anxious, and largely because of batman, for the movie to be a defense of that mindset.