Perfectly Executed Evil
I saw “The Dark Night“, the latest Batman movie, over this past weekend. Although I was coerced into it, in the final analysis those were my feet that walked into the theater and my wallet that supplied the currency with which to pay for the viewing.
It’s the Antichrist of movies. Although I’m not a Christian, here’s my broad brush explanation:
As best as I understand it, the Antichrist will rise through the ranks to be seen as a great leader and unifier in his homeland. His influence will then spread, until all people, worldwide, become disciples, at which point he’ll undergo a subtle but all too real transition from savior to demonic despot, making victims of us all.
“The Dark Knight” suckers one in under the premise that, however dark it may be stylistically, its roots and soul still reside in the world of comic book make believe. It’s not like “The Texas Chain Saw Massacre”, where you get what you pay for: the agenda’s vile, but it isn’t hidden. “The Dark Knight” however, is expertly crafted, walking the tightrope between entertainment and dark indoctrination until, voila, hundreds of millions of people have been drenched in subliminal evil for 2 hours plus, and have worshiped at its alter without being aware of having done so.
My soul needed a shower after the movie, as it felt like it had spent that time in a vat filled with the devil’s spit. It’s a poor reflection on us, myself included, that we’re susceptible to the lure that was cast.
It also speaks softly but strongly about the hypocrisy and the blind spot of the Hollywood elite, who wonder why a nation they’ve indoctrinated with their profitable but mind twisting fare continues to elect and re-elect corrupt knuckleheads.
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Thanks for the warning, LK!
I had near-zero interest in seeing this movie before reading your warning. I now have zero.
You are what you eat. That is a given. That is physics. And the visual and mental impressions one takes in, and absorbs, are part of that greater definition of “Food”.
I avoid “eating” Devil’s-spit just as I would avoid eating salmonella-tainted food. Well-styled Mind-poison is about as appealing to me– and should be to other thoughtful people– as a well-prepared, sizzling flame-broiled cancerburger pattie of tainted rotten meat.
That is to say– NOT.
Substance matters, style is at best gravy. Time for Sanity to fight back and that’s what your blog (and others) are doing.
Thanks for the warning. I’ll fwd it to the spiritual FDA.
Maybe re-read your own article and realize you made no concrete assertions about the movie? You blather a bit about the anti-christ, failing to show how that is at all relevant to the movie, and then follow with a bunch of non-sequiturs. What a weird article.