on the Dark Knight Rises

It's really hard to talk about The Dark Knight Rises because it's so thematically incoherent. And yet so enjoyable (outside of the execrable sound mixing). Even if I kept sniggering every time they shoehorned in another unconvincing kiss. Guy Debord wins, in other words.

I mean, it's undeniably pro-order, pro status quo, but even there they undercut their own point with the good cop disobeying orders left and right, right? And then making a big speech about being stifled by structure? I give up.

And I like the way that the entire middle class of Gotham has disappeared, and actually all of the working poor too, right along with all the POC. Incompetent tokens destined to be cannon fodder excepted.

Points for the best use of the "I can't operate on this patient, he's my son!" lesson in a summer blockbuster movie, though.