Corpsey
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The Dark Knight is a film that I would generally consider so much more successful venerated than it "deserved" to be.
But the fact is it really tapped into something - primarily Ledger. They tried doing that again with The Dark Knight Rises and failed.
The incoherence of it all - which seems an aesthetic flaw - might actually have contributed to this power. I remember seeing it at the cinema and it was so fucking loud and all over the place I couldn't understand what people were saying half the time. If you start analysing the "logic" of the "philosophical" conversations they have its all hokum. The Joker makes that all make sense, though. Because it's like his nihilism is controlling the whole narrative.
But the fact is it really tapped into something - primarily Ledger. They tried doing that again with The Dark Knight Rises and failed.
The incoherence of it all - which seems an aesthetic flaw - might actually have contributed to this power. I remember seeing it at the cinema and it was so fucking loud and all over the place I couldn't understand what people were saying half the time. If you start analysing the "logic" of the "philosophical" conversations they have its all hokum. The Joker makes that all make sense, though. Because it's like his nihilism is controlling the whole narrative.