Dark Knight impressions…

unbelievable…i left the movie speechless.  

for the haters who didn’t understand the evolution of Batman, depicted by him taking the fall for Dent and other people’s death read this article.

“I can understand why many are bothered by what seems like a thematic rather than realistic choice for Batman to take the blame for the murders, but I think that’s only because they didn’t really touch on another significant reason for doing so…. other than to keep Dent as Gotham’s incorruptible white knight.

He is still in the process of developing the Batman persona. As Batman he is anonymous, so his human ‘weaknesses’ can’t be targeted as easily. He is also a symbol. The one thing that the Villains do have on him is he is self-righteous, and so they focus on that. In both movies the villains focus on Batman’s ‘one rule’ that he won’t break. It’s the one weakness in the Batman persona.

After the destruction of Harvey Dent and Bruce tells Alfred he has seen what he would have to become to defeat men like that. Men like that. He is not just talking about the Joker, but all the villains Batman must face in the future and the one he faced in the past.

In the end taking on the blame for the murders means future villains will no longer assume Batman is above killing them or anyone else. He will be even more feared by them, and will not be perceived as having that one weakness they can exploit or try to corrupt.

And thought that tarnishes the morality of the Batman symbol, he decides that Gotham doesn’t need Batman to symbolize morality any longer. They have a far better symbol for that… the white knight. This also may help solve the issue of the copycat Batmen running around with guns. He said early on in the film that when he wanted to inspire the people of Gotham that wasn’t what he meant. It was the unintended consequence of being a ‘moral’ symbol of justice.

He could better serve Gotham as a Dark Knight. Not one to be idolized and mimicked, it’d be better for them to idolize and mimic the symbol of Dent he helps manufacture. On the other hand he also can’t really start killing criminals or villains like the Joker or else he would be corrupted.

The end gives him his path out out of this issue… and it’s tragic. He is even more isolated.

The more I think about it, the more the movie seems to have pieces that back it up. The Joker tells Batman that as soon as it’s convenient they will turn on him for the freak he is. This assumes that Batman needs their acceptance. And maybe he did, but he evolved to no longer need that.

I guess the only weakness I see is that they didn’t have Batman and Gordan have that lengthy conversation before he takes flight, but now that would have been really contrived and unrealistic.”

~ by bkkcm on July 21, 2008.