Conservatives on blogs scare me, no personal offense. The way you all talk about “liberals” in such an insulting way all the time, as if they completely run society and are horrible, idiotic creatures… is a bit much.
Also, it’s a little funny to me how a lot of conservatives find this movie to have such a conservative message, and how its success shows that deep down, we all think the War on Terror is great.
While there are similarities between some of the issues presented, I will remind you all that Islamic terrorists have much different motives than the Joker, and Batman is a vigilante who had his love killed because of the Joker, not an elected official representing a nation and trying to pry information for terrorists.
The politics in the Dark Knight are a little bit more pro-establishment than I would like them to be, and there are some parallels to current events, I don’t think the glove quite fits completely right to say that the Dark Knight is a conservative film. It has some of those elements in it, but I think it’s much more complex than that (and it also takes place in a world where Batman is the good guy by default, which is not the view we should always assume of our elected officials).
I certainly don’t want to get into any debates with any of you, especially of the political type since you all seem like very principled conservatives, but I will say that this film’s success compared to “liberal” movies failures has nothing to do with the politics, and everything to do with the quality of movie.
