The Dark Knight Film Analysis

Corrupting The Incorruptible After watching Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, like most people, I enjoyed the well-made movie, without connecting it to reality, thinking that is just another fiction superhero film, where batman shows up in a fashionable ways, beats up criminals, make them look stupid, and saves the day like most previous batman movies, series and comic books. But popular culture reflects society, for example: Steve Schneider said “The 1966 Batman TV series, like most artifacts of its era, is commonly construed as a reaction to the JFK assassination”. Nonetheless most of us have a general idea about what’s right and wrong, good and bad, so pop culture not only reflects our society, but also influence and shape our

On the other hand, I believe that Batman was criticizing these ways, agreeing with John Ip statement:” the film is plainly not an endorsement of perhaps the most controversial aspect of the Bush Administration’s war on terror. Indeed, it is better seen as a critique”. First, because Batman’s dramatic rendition of (Lau) from Hong Kong was to bring him to justice and to allow him to be interrogated to catch another terrorist knowing that he was proven guilty, without using extraordinary rendition, that batman might considered it ethically unacceptable. Second, Batman and (Harvey Dent) did use acts of torture and coercively interrogation that was somewhat useful, but was proven ineffective, since the Joker planned for it too, and ended up giving untruthful information. Third, the surveillance system Batman used to illegally spy on public without their permission, but he used it only once, looking for one specific terrorist, as an exception for an emergency situation to save innocent lives, then destroyed the whole system, and that was better than the Bush Administration or the telecom companies have done in real life, where “…the NSA was engaged in “vacuum

So the film is an example of post 9/11 popular culture that frames our views of justice and war on terrorism, “it makes everybody think about the present political situation but we 'll probably reach different conclusions about it just as we reach different conclusions about the real world”. Eric Alterman said. And being alive in a post 9/11 universe reflects the tension between legality and necessity. “The Dark Knight shows why making an exception for Batman’s illegal conduct is problematic” (Ip). Because I believe that we should go far enough to stop whatever is threating us, but how far can we really go, without being considered ”corrupt” or “terrorists”? In matter of fact, using these methods on war against terrorism can be costly, and cause multiple complications that could take us into a never ending cycle of war, but there is a reaction to any action. Therefore, I believe in law, order and legality, but I also believe in peace, and in order to achieve peace and happiness, we have to sometimes make an exception in an “emergency situations”. And predict and accept whatever complications that might be created out of it. After all, the power is within the people, “that society ideally should not rely on heroic vigilantes that the people themselves need to show