if you are watching the dark knight anytime soon, please please tell me so i can come see it again! this is hamlet and othello with gadgets and summer movie stunts. harold bloom says iago isn't just a supervillain, he could be the inspiration for the literary satan. haven't read cormac mccarthy's blood meridian, but i think we have another iago in heath ledger's joker.
we are confronted with these concepts good and evil every time, but this best work by chris nolan asks, and shows us, the shakiness - or is it shallowness - of these mere words. nietzsche, anyone? the joker says: what doesn't kill you makes you stranger. i'm tempted to venture into freud, deconstruction, and maybe spivak again but this is so uncool already.
moviegoers have to learn to manage their expectations. on our way out of the theater mayee and i heard some teen say the dark knight is so much better than harry potter.
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