Is The Dark Knight... George Bush?

[Bond]

Yeah, I definitely think with an abstract movie, such as The Dark Knight, it's easy to impose your own beliefs into interpretations of the film. The editorial raises an interesting interpretation, but he doesn't make much of an argument and just descends into right / left polarized psychobabble.

I tried to think of supportive examples, and I came up with three:

- Lucious Fox, against his better judgment, uses the sonar computer to track Joker, knowing that what he was doing is highly illegal. After Batman captures the Joker, the machine is destroyed.

- Harvey Dent issues the warrants for the five banks which Jim Gordon wants to search. Not sure on the legality here, but I doubt Dent had the legal authority to issue the warrants with the information which Gordon provided him.

- Batman kills Harvey Dent, compromising his virtues / values in a time of need.

[BreakABone]

-Depends on how you look at it, Batman was the one who built in the self destruct feature. Batman also trusted himself enough to know he shouldn't have given himself the power so he gave it to someone who wasn't as driven by one motivation.

-I don't think there was anything wrong with the warrants. The only problem was that Gordon was giving him very little information but I mean it seemed to be legit enough, but don't know the rules of Gotham.

-Batman doesn't intentionally kill Harvey as far as I read it. I think Batman made an impulse move which he generally doesn't and between being hurt by the Joker and rescuing the little boy, he didn't have time to save Harvey.

[KillerGremlin]

What the fuck does 300 have to do with the Bush administration? If you want to talk about flimsy segues into arguments, talk about starting off on the wrong foot by comparing 300 to a conservative viewpoint.

This dumbass can't grasp the simple nuances of Miller's 300...I wouldn't take any fluff he writes very seriously.

I don't agree with this article. At all. But, in response to the sonar:
Superman has super hearing, and no one gets on his case for hearing everything in the world. Batman only used the device in a time of need; in a ticking bomb scenario.

Someone said that Batman was advocating torture when he started beating the crap out of the Joker in the confession room. Again, I disagree.

Sure, the author of this editorial brought up some good points; the new Batman movie is full of complexities on the subject of morals. But, again, I fail to see the connection to the conservative viewpoint or the Bush Administration's agenda.