The Dark Knight Mumbles: What's Wrong with Christopher Nolan's Message

BoxOffice.Com ^ | JULY 28, 2012 | Ross A. Lincoln

[Talisker]

The uncomfortable fact is that in the end, every single important decision in The Dark Knight Rises is made in the shadows by extremely powerful individuals, making Nolan's Batman universe ultimately about a fight between "good" rich people and "bad" rich people. The bad ones use populist, smash-the-system rhetoric to exploit the common people, and the good ones advocate for the continuity of the stratified system, but have a soft spot for the poor.

Uncomfortable for Leftist hypocrisy, maybe, but this is dead-on balls-accurate, and you can't BE a successful Leftist unless you not only know it, but work it every single day in order to exploit the common people. Hell, that's a literal description of what Leftists DO for a living.

[Yardstick]

Saw the Dark Knight last weekend and was disappointed, but am glad to see it annoy liberals like the author.

[a fool in paradise]

Anytime they want to “smash the system”, ask them first what they want to replace it with and ask them why THEY should get to dictate to the masses?

[samsmom]

Exactly. No matter the form of government, there are always those in charge. The left uses manipulation and HAND OUTS to get power and stay in power. Castro, Chavez, Obama.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

The uncomfortable fact is that in the end, every single important decision in The Dark Knight Rises is made in the shadows by extremely powerful individuals, making Nolan's Batman universe ultimately about a fight between "good" rich people and "bad" rich people. The bad ones use populist, smash-the-system rhetoric to exploit the common people, and the good ones advocate for the continuity of the stratified system, but have a soft spot for the poor.

So... just like real life, then?