Apparently The Dark Knight was a cleverly disguised pro-Bush polemic:
There seems to me no question that the Batman film “The Dark Knight,” currently breaking every box office record in history, is at some level a paean of praise to the fortitude and moral courage that has been shown by George W. Bush in this time of terror and war. Like W, Batman is vilified and despised for confronting terrorists in the only terms they understand. Like W, Batman sometimes has to push the boundaries of civil rights to deal with an emergency, certain that he will re-establish those boundaries when the emergency is past.

I can see what he’s getting at. I mean, just like Bush’s policies are creating more terrorists, Batman is creating more criminals. And just like Bush’s violations of civil rights, Batman’s are viewed with repugnance by moral observers.
Or were we not supposed to extend the metaphor that far?

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