Thursday, July 24, 2008

The Dark Knight or an allegory for George Bush?

The Dark Knight the follow up to wildly successful Batman Begins continues where the last movie left off with Batman continuing his personal crusade against criminals. Batman is now aided by a no-nonsense, by the rules DA, Harvey Dent. Together with Gordon they have made in roads into major crime organization by attaching there sources of money. But a new menace has arrived in Gotham, the Joker. He does not play by the rules, his goals are not to be rich, his goals are to rule through fear, to tear down society. Cold and calculating the Joker uses Gotham’s own weakness against them, he allows fear and anger to tear at society from the inside. Batman realizes that traditional powers can not fight a man that is not driven by clear logic and steps out side the bounds of moral society to track down the Joker. He will torture all who maybe involved he will eaves drop on every phone call in the city, he will stop at nothing to find the joker, but in the end he can not kill the joker. Why? He will say that it is his morals that will not allow him to kill the Joker, but maybe the Joker knows best when he says that Batman can not kill the Joker just as he can not kill Batman because with out the other, the other can not exist. It is Batman’s ego that is his final undoing as much as he claims that he wants to be able to stop being Batman he can not allow himself to get out. So, Batman will take the fall and martyr himself so that society can still see it self as good. But what do we really want? We say we want to be lead by the Harvey Dents of the world but we want to be saved by the Batmans. Maybe we should all just flip a coin as Two Face would as the extreme of both good and evil dictated only by chance, created by the circumstances of life’s experiences.

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