stuck, maybe forever

so we're still not over the dark knight. alanah says she thought the joker's a victim too when he first tells the story of his scars (that scene i find very scary. chinatown, anyone? except heath ledger's performance is a million times scarier than roman polanski's). when he tells a different story to rachel (with almost the exact same delivery, expression, and tongue movements) her summary, brief and i would have to say accurate, was: gago to a!

they say the best villains do not need explanations. oversimplification. villains escape reason, that's more like it. they do things not because of childhood trauma, or some tragic loss. that'd be trashy psychologizing (what kind of word was that). the joker is evil because of his position as the opposite of good, and this we can say is true for batman himself. that's the only way to define them both. the constitution of self as other. wtf!

i think i'm writing a batman-related grad school thesis, by the way. no, let's call it batman-inspired. it's about philippine cinema, and genre (love!), and parody. maybe some anticolonial narrative somewhere. ideas? help!