[ SECRET POST #2979 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2979 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Over the last two decades I've watched a great deal of superhero films, and out of all of it The Dark Knight is doubtless the most challenging.

The Dark Knight is not a simplistic tale of good and evil. Batman is good, yes, The Joker is evil, yes. But Batman poses a more complex puzzle than usual: The citizens of Gotham City are in an uproar, calling him a vigilante and blaming him for the deaths of policemen and others. And the Joker is more than a villain. He’s a Mephistopheles whose actions are fiendishly designed to pose moral dilemmas for his enemies.

Because these actors and others are so powerful, and because the movie does not allow its spectacular special effects to upstage the humans, we’re surprised how deeply the drama affects us. Eckhart does an especially good job as Harvey Dent, whose character is transformed by a horrible fate into a bitter monster. It is customary in a comic book movie to maintain a certain knowing distance from the action, to view everything through a sophisticated screen. The Dark Knight slips around those defenses and engages us.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought it was boring. Couldn't even finish it, which is unusual for me.

I'm not denying it's an enjoyable movie for a lot of people, but there's nothing that groundbreaking about it. It was pretty much a thriller movie with Batman in it.

[(Anonymous)]

You're trying really hard to be a critic, aren't you?

[(Anonymous)]

The Joker is possibly the worst villain/metaphor I've ever seen. He's a plot device - he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, for no particular reason or purpose other than some vague 15-year-old boy's concept of "chaos." It creates this massive tonal dissonance in the film, because it's set up this idea that it's a "realistic" take on superheroes and the Batman mythos while you've got this basically omnipotent villain running around. Because the Joker can (seemingly) do anything, there are no stakes. It just becomes cartoonish in a world supposed to be the opposite, with a bunch of disconnected set pieces and then some explosions.

That it was supposed to be some kind of terrorism analogue is laughable. If there's one thing known about terrorism, it's that it has a purpose - a direct idealogical goal. The Joker has none of that, just endless resources and henchmen and the ability to commandeer ferries and who knows what else. It's dumb. It's incredibly dumb. And I thought that as I was in the theater watching what I was expecting to be a good Batman movie.

[(Anonymous)]

...what?

All of those ideas are incredibly simplistic and were treated in a hamfisted way. This movie is only "challenging" if you're incapable of anything other than surface-level thought.

[(Anonymous)]

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