I considered making a new thread to discuss this issue. But then, I wasn't sure if it was relevant/important enough to warrant its own thread, and there's few things on these boards I can stomach less than threads made up entirely of people whining about how the thread should be merged/locked/deleted. So I just popped it in here.
I live in the UK. And like my fellow UK Hypesters can attest to, recently here on our shores, it seems like one thing has been dominating the news. Knife crime. It seems to be on a shocking rise at the moment, with new, increasingly violent knife murders constantly appearing on the daily reports. A couple of weeks back, a couple of French students had their flat broken into, they were tied up, and each one was stabbed over 100 times, a brutal murder. It's especially bad here in Glasgow, where I live. We're like the knife crime capital of the developed world. One recent controversy involved a reporter with a hidden camera - investigating something else - being attacked with a knife for no reason. The assailant didn't know he was a reporter, or that he was being filmed doing it. Just random, senseless violence.
But the thing that triggered this post was the leading story on today's news. Over the space of one night, last night, I believe it was 7 people who were murdered in seperate, unrelated stabbing incidents. And all these seperate deaths came together to form one story: knife crime epidemic. They even had the Prime Minister on talking about the severity of this problem.
Enter "The Dark Knight". Namely, The Joker. The iconic villain, who many will be flocking to the film to see. And what is his weapon of choice? The knife. Lots and lots of knives, in fact. Knowing how sensationalist the media can get, do any other UK fans following the news right now think that "The Dark Knight" could suffer from a media backlash for "glorifying" knives in this current, frightening climate?
