The Dark Knight will win Oscars. It’s the most well-written superhero story ever, I think, with murky themes intensely relevant to today’s social and cultural climate. Heath Ledger delivered the most truthful lines in the movie with an intensity and depth unseen to date in the type of character he played. He, through the Joker’s lines, commented in many ways on the voracious system that had been chewing him up for years and, ultimately, spat him out.
Favorite line: “Funny thing about chaos… it’s fear.”
Also, I just went and saw Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the new documentary, and was sufficiently impressed to mention something about it. Both the content and the presentation of the Alex Gibney documentary were fantastic as a memoriam and as an imperative to those who would carry the torch of Gonzo into the murky corners of greed and repugnancy that thrive today. Isn’t “repugnant” a great word?!
Hunter S. Thompson served the purpose of deconstruction by peeling back the illusion and mendacity that swirled around the late sixties and beyond (he foresaw the travesties of American foreign and corporate policy of the Aughts on the morning of 911). Before something of value can be built, the tragic monolith of modern society must be cracked, Thompson’s work might suggest, and then broken and razed to get at the foundation which allows grubby, wealthy, white swine to better their kind and execute the vicious burn to keep others in their place. Interesting theory, huh? What a joker.
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