Yeah, Dark Knight -- thanks for that. Dark Knight was an exploitive film, but it did bring back some of the 9/11 chill. Wall-E did something of the same, too, and perhaps for this reason they both struck me as vital. Neither so bleak, though. Both are as much romances as they are anything else: wall-e and the joker made good use of their barren (unpeopled, with the former; peopled but with boring, predictable people, with the latter) landscapes, but really come to life when the love of their lives comes into their lives (with both batman and eve being reserved, muscled, bad-asses, interestingly enough). The batman and joker romance as part of the Romance montage, then? I would like to have seen that. Would have shown the Oscars got the point.
Watch out, liberal extremities! websmith says: “White people and an increasing number of minorities are tired of being called racists by the true racists and more appalled that this loony bleeding has spread from the heart to the brain." This is what many progressives are going to have to get used to hearing -- that THEY are the true racists! I've said this before but '60's liberalism goes down when enough people have decided that, in sum, it was never truly about what minorities, impoverished people wanted/needed, but instead what certain AFFLUENT WHITE PEOPLE wanted to believe those they ostensibly spoke for wanted/needed. They (progressives) will be made to seem, not the most caring, but the most negligent, most truly self-serving. Of course, most democrats in power will not be too afflicted by this, because they're ready to turn on the ’60s too. Why? Because, sad to say, they're getting in mood to want to see the weak and needy set-up as punishment-worthy a...
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