Friday, July 25, 2008

The Dark Knight as Political Allegory


Author Andrew Klavan wrote an op/ed piece in the Wall Street Journal this week exploring his interpretation of "The Dark Knight" as a conservatively slanted allegory for President Bush's position in the war on terror. I am glad to see someone finally broach this topic, as it seemed clearly evident to me when I saw the film. I thought it would be in every review, on every blog and every chat room that contained any serious discussions of this film. Unfortunately, most of the internet discussion of this film is simply fanboy hyperbole about how this is the greatest thing ever committed to celluloid.

Well, let me say-- bravo, Mr. Klavan. This article was a well written, logically approached interpretation of this film, and of the topic of how Hollywood has treated the topic of the war on terror as a whole. My only wish is that the article was longer. Many bloggers and internet posters are claiming that this interpretation is bunk. My answer to that is, any intelligent person would at least recognize the correlation between this film and the current situation in the war is simply being willfully ignorant. It's a pretty blatant theme of the film, and only someone who was purposely ignoring this theme would come away from this film purporting to have no idea where someone Klavan got this idea.

Whichever side you are on about this topic-- please, do yourself a favor and read the article here.

4 comments:

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