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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-03-01 03:47 pm

[ SECRET POST #2979 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2979 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2015-03-02 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
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.