Post by Timothy on Sept 21, 2008 20:41:34 GMT -5
First of all, I'd like to make a point that, for the most part, I enjoy listening to NPR. With that being said, this mostly pretentious public radio service didn't surprise me with one radio host's take on The Dark Knight
from the segment 'Dark Knight,' A Cheerless Blood-Drenched Allegory
On paper, this morality play is fascinating, but a lot of the movie doesn't transcend its talking points. The psychological twists are dubious and the plotting herky-jerky, with leaps in logic. The Dark Knight plays as if it were written by Oxford philosophy majors trying to tone up American pop. Maybe that wouldn't matter if the action weren't spectacularly incoherent. I defy you to make spatial sense of a truck/Bat-tank/police car chase, or the climax with Batman, the Joker, hostages, SWAT teams, fake Batmen and Morgan Freeman on some kind of sonar monitoring gizmo.
First of all, the Joker is an urban terrorist, and with his seemingly random attacks, more people are going to be off the streets. The panic-stricken people fleeing the city towards the end of the film are a testament to the psychological terror that the Joker inflicts on Gotham City's citizens.
In regards to the "fake Batmen" item, I'm not sure if this reviewer didn't get the opening sequence mixed up with the end of the film.
The sonar device, while not nearly as bizarre as the "microwave emitter" from Batman Begins, is still plausible. Concurrently, modern cellphones, especially "Blue Tooth" models, are extremely easy to hijack in terms of incoming and outgoing calls, leading to the philosophical discussion on the ethics of wire-tapping in the war on domestic terrorism.
What are your opinions after reading or listening to the above article in regards to The Dark Knight ?
from the segment 'Dark Knight,' A Cheerless Blood-Drenched Allegory
On paper, this morality play is fascinating, but a lot of the movie doesn't transcend its talking points. The psychological twists are dubious and the plotting herky-jerky, with leaps in logic. The Dark Knight plays as if it were written by Oxford philosophy majors trying to tone up American pop. Maybe that wouldn't matter if the action weren't spectacularly incoherent. I defy you to make spatial sense of a truck/Bat-tank/police car chase, or the climax with Batman, the Joker, hostages, SWAT teams, fake Batmen and Morgan Freeman on some kind of sonar monitoring gizmo.
First of all, the Joker is an urban terrorist, and with his seemingly random attacks, more people are going to be off the streets. The panic-stricken people fleeing the city towards the end of the film are a testament to the psychological terror that the Joker inflicts on Gotham City's citizens.
In regards to the "fake Batmen" item, I'm not sure if this reviewer didn't get the opening sequence mixed up with the end of the film.
The sonar device, while not nearly as bizarre as the "microwave emitter" from Batman Begins, is still plausible. Concurrently, modern cellphones, especially "Blue Tooth" models, are extremely easy to hijack in terms of incoming and outgoing calls, leading to the philosophical discussion on the ethics of wire-tapping in the war on domestic terrorism.
What are your opinions after reading or listening to the above article in regards to The Dark Knight ?
