In "The Mystery of Chivalrous Shadow", Nolan first pointed the spearhead at the single ideological politics in the discussion of political legitimacy. Through the trial of this political tendency, the director revealed the high-sounding Utopian thought. In the film, the shadow warrior The alliance has been circulating for centuries, with the mission of eliminating evil, and every time civilization meets their so-called decadent standards, it will be destroyed. Here, it is obvious that Nolan uses the Shadow Warrior Alliance to allude to contemporary China, because in the director’s view, Marxist China provides the only contemporary ideological model. This is where the Shadow Warrior Alliance is located—Tibet and a little talk about China. You can feel it. After crossing these prejudices, we can see that, in fact, the totalization of ideology has been suspected and criticized in the modern West. It is generally believed that this utopian social design theory is the only way to lead to totalitarianism. The overall design "sweep away everything, without leaving an unturned stone, he aspires to build not only a better society than us, but a world that completely eliminates all ugliness (Carl Popper)." In a single In a society under the control of ideology, the power of the ruling class will inevitably be infinitely amplified, and this amplification will lead to the singularization of political power. Therefore, the loss of competitiveness brings about the nihilism of political moral foundation. At this time, the legitimacy of political rule can only rely on self-referentiality, and has nothing to do with the real moral emotions of human beings. Therefore, in order to maintain its false legitimacy, the ruling class will create beautiful illusions to promote the prosperity of the future. All actions will be strictly designed to achieve the purpose of maintaining its rule. Orwell's "1984" shows us such a terrible scene. At this time, the people living in it have such a personality fracture. The action is strictly controlled, but the self-consciousness is freedom, the action is obviously a crime, but the self-consciousness is justice, just as the Kagemusha Alliance prides itself on justice when killing inhumane. Since then, Nolan has completely dismantled the basis of a single ideological politics. As Ian Shapiro said, politics needs to be based on morality. Therefore, even a chaotic society like Gotham City cannot be based on this. Rebuild politics that have lost their moral foundation.
If "The Mystery of Chivalrous Shadow" is just a slight criticism of the legitimacy of a single ideological politics, then "The Dark Knight" is the real politics first. There are a lot of political discussions in the film. This is in Batman. , Joker, Harvey Dent's full of tension role can be seen in the confrontation. For Bruce Wayne, the legitimacy of his superhero status began to be questioned. When he is flying over the wall, fighting crime, and upholding justice, Batman unconsciously puts himself above well-structured social laws. All social and personal actions will be subject to Batman’s personal supervision, and criminal acts will also be controlled by Batman. Come for the trial. In this case, the measurement of social norms will become personal, which will completely depend on Batman’s personal moral water quality. Therefore, once Batman’s personal moral norms are contrary to human natural moral emotions, Harvey Dent The tragedy will be in Bruce Wayne repeats itself, and at the same time, when the crime-fighting action has to be executed as a criminal act, Batman will inevitably copy the dangerous ideological concept of the shadow warrior alliance in "The Mystery of Shadow Warriors". These dilemmas did not appear when Batman collided with low-level criminal behavior, but the appearance of the Joker changed everything. The clown has a natural criminal gene. He is not driven by some profit to commit crimes. In his view, crime is an end rather than a means. This kind of complete evil concept is his life creed, just like Hannah. Lunt said that this kind of total evil no longer has anything to do with this kind of evil motives that can be understood from humanity. In Harvey Dent, it embodies the biggest contradiction in political and social organization. The role of the prosecutor itself embodies a good and free form of social organization. He can basically be equivalent to the form of state organization declared by pure classical liberalism. In this good society where individual freedom is the priority. The state must maintain the neutrality of good ideas, that is, the state cannot promote a good idea by advocating a life, nor can it deny a good idea by suppressing a life. therefore. To a certain extent, the state cannot make moral judgments about the behavior of citizens living in it, and at the same time it cannot guide and restrain it. Therefore, in the film, Harvey Dent is powerless for the Joker. He can only expect Batman to solve this problem. This is equivalent to relying on the moral power game between various citizens to maintain the basic moral standards of society, but when it is an extreme country When neutrality and individual freedom occur, once the balance of this game is broken, the state will immediately be unable to respond to the immoral tendencies of citizens, which will inevitably lead to the deterioration of a good society. Just as the weak Weimar government gave birth to the freak of fascism. Under the bewitching of the clown, Harvey Dent has also become a double-faced man.
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