Why Are You Crouching Spock?
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I was watching Rashamon the other day and themes and the way the story goes seems very, very similar to the Dark Knight.
Bear with me.
In Rashomon, it's seemed to be about how people lie about there own true nature to save face with distorted viewpoints on what really "is". In the Dark Knight this seems to be what the Joker is attempting to prove, that society's sense of "morality" is a distortion of reality, that everyone is corrupt. While Rashomon does this through a series of alternate events the Dark Knight channels it through the Joker.
At the end of Rashamon, one of the story-tellers who attempts to stop a bandit from from stealing an abandoned child's wrapping, is revealed to be corrupt himself, as he didn't just witness the events, he actually stole a dagger from the scene for personal profit. However, in a selfless act he takes the child to raise as his own, reassuring the other story tellers faith in man (both standing in a similar manner to Dent And Batman at the of the Dark Knight) with the Takishi Shimura's characters wandering off for a closing shot.
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At the end of the Dark Knight, although Harvey Dent has been corrupted, and the Joker has more or less proven his point, Batman selflessly takes the blame, with Gordon given a narration in a similar manner to Roshasmon that more or less reassures his (as well as our) faith in man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2urqJCC0DPI
It seems to me that the Dark Knight is basically Rashomon in Gotham.
Bear with me.
In Rashomon, it's seemed to be about how people lie about there own true nature to save face with distorted viewpoints on what really "is". In the Dark Knight this seems to be what the Joker is attempting to prove, that society's sense of "morality" is a distortion of reality, that everyone is corrupt. While Rashomon does this through a series of alternate events the Dark Knight channels it through the Joker.
At the end of Rashamon, one of the story-tellers who attempts to stop a bandit from from stealing an abandoned child's wrapping, is revealed to be corrupt himself, as he didn't just witness the events, he actually stole a dagger from the scene for personal profit. However, in a selfless act he takes the child to raise as his own, reassuring the other story tellers faith in man (both standing in a similar manner to Dent And Batman at the of the Dark Knight) with the Takishi Shimura's characters wandering off for a closing shot.
[YT]V4ut6TT5fro&feature=channel_video_title[/YT]
[YT]6GYzr8xIsHU[/YT]
At the end of the Dark Knight, although Harvey Dent has been corrupted, and the Joker has more or less proven his point, Batman selflessly takes the blame, with Gordon given a narration in a similar manner to Roshasmon that more or less reassures his (as well as our) faith in man.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2urqJCC0DPI
It seems to me that the Dark Knight is basically Rashomon in Gotham.
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