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                 A small observation about “The Dark Knight”

I just saw “The Dark Knight [1]” again, this time with a bunch of friends
including Joe, whom I hadn't seen in two years [2]—he was in town for the
weekend). Even though I've seen the movie before [3], Joe hadn't (which is
why we all went) and hey, it was worth seeing again.

Afterwards as we all sat at Moonlight Diner (formerly the Starlite Diner)
talking about the film, an interesting point was raised—both the Joker and
the Batman are hypocrites. In the film, the Batman is for law and order, yet
runs around in reaction to everything, improvising as he goes along with no
real plan, breaking the law and order that he so cherishes. The Joker, on the
other hand, preaches that random chance rules the day and he goes through his
various capers with no plan, yet everything he does is planned in meticulous
detail and leaves almost nothing to chance (except for one scene with Harvey
Dent). It was an interesting point I hadn't noticed.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468569/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/05/27.5
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2008/07/23.1

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