Has anyone seen The Dark Knight Rises? I haven’t. Not that I have anything against Batman. It’s just not a movie that was on my A-List (and nothing need be said about the killings last week in Colorado; this is about the movie, not the apparently insane killer).
Now it is.
In today’s Wall Street Journal, novelist and PJ Media contributor Andrew Klavan has a fascinating interpretation of the movie. In the Journal column, Batman Battles the Politics of Resentment Klavan shows the movie to be “a bold apologia for free-market capitalism [and] a graphic depiction of the tyranny and violence inherent in every radical leftist movement….”
Says Klavan: “Our chattering classes frequently tell us that art should speak truth to power and shock the bourgeoisie. It just never seems to occur to them that ‘the power’—and the modern Babbitts of the bourgeoisie—are themselves.”
Enter The Dark Knight Rises: “The world of the film is our world, [and it is] the direct opposite of the world imagined into being by our intelligentsia.” The movies shows that “Forgiveness and self-betterment redeem society while embittered extortions in the name of ‘social justice’ poison it…[and] the forcible redistribution of private property is identified as theft, the forerunner of disorder and despotism. None of these simple truths is hidden in the film.” Damn. I must see this movie.