Well, I speak as someone who's sick of pat good-triumphs-over-evil films, inasmuch as they don't connect with his sense of the world. No doubt my worldview is fairly bleak for finding that this one did. And I agree, it's not a fun film, and you'll be disappointed if you expect to go home happy. (I don't think it's sadism in Nolan to do what he's done with a Hollywood flick, but he is going against the grain of expectation.)
Still - take the scene on the boats, which I think is pivotal - where ordinary people, good and bad, decide to sacrifice themselves, proving the Joker's assessment of that moral depravity wrong. It's the tiny lights of individual goodness against that dark background that matter. And isn't one edifying point to be drawn from that, that if you expect capital-h Heroes to be heroic for you, the world will rapidly go to pot?
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Date: 2008-08-03 06:14 pm (UTC)Still - take the scene on the boats, which I think is pivotal - where ordinary people, good and bad, decide to sacrifice themselves, proving the Joker's assessment of that moral depravity wrong. It's the tiny lights of individual goodness against that dark background that matter. And isn't one edifying point to be drawn from that, that if you expect capital-h Heroes to be heroic for you, the world will rapidly go to pot?