Re: Armond White
"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, Mike Findlay wrote: > That being said I don't thihnk I agree with White, (haven't read the > full review yet), but you have to admit he has a point with this: . > > ."...because it <The Dark Knight> doesn’t require viewers to feel > those discredited virtues, “hope” and “faith.” Like Hellboy II, > this kind of sci-fi or horror or comics-whatever obviates morality. No, I don't think he *does* have a point. The Dark Knight does, admittedly, put hope and faith through the wringer -- but Batman wouldn't be who he is, or do what he does, unless he had at least a twinge of those things. The character is defined, after all, by his refusal to give in to the lethal judgmentalism or nihilism of Ra's al Ghul's gang. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot