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      <![CDATA[I think the problem with the Dark Knight has been, as you noted, that it's "formally convincing"...it really plays for the guts in an easy-to-surrender-to sort of way, so it's not hard to lose sight of its bogus politics, or, say, to buy Morgan Freeman's purely lip-service argument against wiretapping as credible counterargument.  Once the hype-dust settles, though, I expect a little critical re-evaluation to be in order, not least of all to take the movie to task for its GWB vindication.  But judging from the huge box office receipts, I guess that's what the American public has been craving, rather than all of the other hitherto anti-Bush blockbusters?<br /><br />P.S.  Jonny--your use of big words like "meme" rendered the admissions of your second post superfluous.
        
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      <![CDATA[oh. also, I am a gay, commie new yorker so of course i just don't get it.
        
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      <![CDATA[Nolan's not really saying anything. Like a precocious high schooler who's stayed up too late he's cherry-picked a series of portentous soundbite memes from the last decade in an attempt to sound like a grown-up (sadly, this is what the current president has done, too). This is why so many writers are able to so easily use it as a platform for ideas they already have &acirc;&#128;&#148; because it's filled with simplified versions of IDEAS THEY ALREADY HAVE.<br /><br />It's really just an assembly of surfaces without much depth, reflecting back to us whatever we already believe. But all of this is ok because that's WHAT COMIC BOOKS DO. We can dig as much as we like but there really isn't much there beyond dorm-room 101 tragic choices and by-the-book anti-heroism &acirc;&#128;&#148; it's Left, it's Right, it's Anarchic, it's Conservative... but it's not coherent. Fun to watch but, meh, if there's moral prescription there, it isn't much more than a placebo.
        
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      <![CDATA[http://www.alternet.org/movies/92385/batman%27s_take_on_9_11_era_politics_drop_the_fearmongering/<br /><br />
        
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      <![CDATA[Also, did anyone else notice how the best parts of this movie were when Nolan was blatantly ripping off Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire? All those shots of god's lonely winged man, looming solitary and broodingly atop backlit skyscrapers, head bowed... at more than point (not even just during the surveillance bit), the soundtrack makes like he's listening in on everyone's heads, also a la Wings.<br /><br />Anyway, all my reservations stand, but as far as Wings of Desire remakes go, Dark Knight dominates City of Angels.
        
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      <![CDATA[Um, you could be forgiven for thinking that I'm ripping off Adam Nayman's superlative Reverse Shot review, Nothing Lebowski joke and all:<br /><br />http://www.reverseshot.com/article/dark_knight<br /><br />But I am not.
        
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