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Suck it up, whiny-boy. Cannoli Send a noteboard - 22/07/2012 01:15:47 AM
The fact that those who were opposed to the wealthy and their corrupt decadence at the expense of everyone else in Gotham were the bad guys.
I did, thank you. Because their opposition and outrage were, for the most part, misplaced (the only people the rich in Gotham are ever shown screwing over are one another, and Catwoman could not have missed the mark further than by holding up Bruce Wayne as a parasite). Because the opposition and outrage were, as is usually the case, a smokescreen for the real power-play by the one's stirring up the trouble. Because the revolution in Gotham appealed to the history buff in me, with the way it exactly parallels the Soviet and French Revolutions.
1. It was the brainchild of the rich
2. It was not remotely performed by the poor & downtrodden, but by alienated members of a more empowered class, and glorified criminals
3. It featured indiscriminate violence regardless of issues like guilt or law or justice
4. It was squelched as soon as someone manned up and focussed their attention on doing so
5. It was not remotely popular in the literal or common-use mean of the word
6. It was far more oppressive to the very people it purported to be helping than any of the "oppressors" it cast down could be bothered to attempt

I also love it for the following reason:
Despite enjoying the movie, I did feel a bit offended at the apparent political message of the movie.
Offended? Really? By a comic book movie? We don't have a font size small enough to write about the violin playing for your complaint. So there is a movie with a political message that offends the left? Give Nolan points for originality! Because nothing teaches you faster to grow up and ignore political messages in movies than 98% of all political messages in movies being equally "offensive" to the opposite end of the political spectrum.

It's always the same with your ilk - "Four legs good, two legs bad!" Your vision or perception is absolutely objectively factual, and anyone else's is merely their opinion. A conservative criticizing a liberal is mudslinging and a liberal criticizing a conservative is engaging in free speech and bringing up important issues of concern. Liberal opposition brings praise and homage for 'speaking truth to power' and engaging in 'patriotic dissent' while conservative opposition is 'obstructionist' and 'incivility' and 'inciting disunity' or 'undermining the president'. Liberal statesmen "keep their campaign promises" and conservative politicians "bow to special interest groups."

Even if your take on the movie is true and it is a political message, rather than history playing itself out one more time (as suggested by Liam Neeson's character's dialogue to Bruce Wayne in "Batman Begins" ) on a smaller scale in Gotham, that's one for us and like, every movie ever, for you.
Cannoli
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
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