The opposite of the great truth is also the great truth

Audience friends who think that everything is either right or wrong, good or bad, will probably find this film a mess: heroes without traditional meanings, heroes are either fooled by monkeys or cast out in the dark, and the ending of the little bat is actually unexpected. It was a flight, not a triumphant victory. It was notorious and scarred. There was no badass in the traditional sense. The badass was too smart and powerful. He was not hit by a KO, and he was not bombed into a hornet's nest. The clown even laughed from the beginning to the end.

I want to say: This movie is not a heroic movie with a simple mind and well-developed limbs. It tells a mess of the real world. This is called magic realism. The illusory background is to achieve a more pure and true description-a society with sound institutions, ethical, legal fighters, and even superheroes (and armed by dazzling high-tech) is ultimately a society dominated by human nature. What about the arrest of evil people? The collapse of the fighters, the split of the heroes, and the tragic victory of justice can only maintain social balance in a passive manner. It seems that there is no end to the truth and no way out. It is the inference of humanism and nihilism, and it shows the powerlessness of the social system and ethics. This is about justice and balance. It is said that people should pursue justice and abandon evil. What about the reality? The vast majority of people are just a combination of good and evil, and the whole society is like this.

When people in the film both lie and are honest, the best and the worst are denied. All individuals and organizations have their social symbolic meaning:

1. Batman is a perfectionist who pursues absolute justice and humanity, but Kuafu cannot chase after the sun;
2. Harvey is the hope of justice and has faith , Pursuing individualist, but when his beliefs and pursuits are absurdly shattered, he also degenerates into absurdity. He was once the person who believed in justice the most and created his own destiny, but in the end he seemed to become the most indifferent "People. It is not so much that he was "instigated" by the clown and betrayed justice, as he was stimulated by the truth of social unfairness and injustice revealed by the clown. He is not so much the "joker's hole card" as it is the humanity's hole card. If we are willing to understand the hysterical performance of shooting police rapes and kidnapping the Gordon family from a neutral perspective, then his purpose is also to punish people who have committed faults (even though lynching, Batman also lynching) , Is also asking where justice and fairness are (just from adopting "just" means to adopting "unjust" means);
3. Gordon seems to be a genuine person, but as the Joker said, everyone has his own plan. Gordon "entangled Batman and Harvey, and planned a big scam to deceive family members, colleagues, leaders, and the public." , Trying to trap the clown, and finally the plan is known through, causing disaster and killing many innocent people." Is the legitimacy of the event judged solely based on the starting point, or should the process, means, and results be considered? When judging Harvey and Gordon, they are caught in the same difficulty: good people can do bad things, bad people can do good things;
4. The criminal gang seems to be indisputably evil, but they also suffer huge losses and are being played by clowns and applauded. In fact, their mistakes are similar to those of the people. The status of the Joker in their eyes and the status of Batman in the eyes of the people are also similar. The opposition between justice and evil is not absolute at all. Sometimes it is ironic, just like the Joker. "Ambiguous" towards Batman;
5. The clown is clever, cunning, and tough. He commits crimes by any means, but has not taken any means to conceal his evil. From this perspective, he is magnanimous;
6. Asking Batman to surrender, And the gangsters and the hostages swap dresses, implying that human beings are so easily intimidated by crises, lured by interests, deceived by appearances, and affected by the environment. The weight of justice and truth is so light;
7. Police rape is not The big gangsters, the audience will feel that they are sinful and shameless from the perspective of the trial, but they only use the most common and "reasonable" logic, for the people they care more about, and for the benefit they can see. , And deceive, betray people who have nothing to do with them, and stay away from the so-called "unrealistic" justice and conscience;
8. In the end, none of the people on the ship chose to detonate. I once assumed a result in which the citizens chose to detonate, but it was their own ship that exploded: Obviously the director is not willing to lose justice, at least, to leave hope. Both Harvey and the police insider have fallen, but when faced with the final and most severe moral torture, as a member of a group, the conscience of society still wins. So I wondered if it was not two ships, two groups, but two individuals, would the situation be different? My answer is that it will be different. While the clown is very thorough about the weaknesses of human nature as an individual (he successfully cracked the game set by Harvey and Gordon, and shaken Harvey’s thoughts), he ignored the social nature of humans (the real defeat of the clown is The conscience of the masses)-This is another question left by the director that is worth pondering, whether it is intentional or unintentional.


While the film is a hero film, it also surpasses ordinary hero films and even denies "heroes". "It can't be better, and it won't be worse, because there is no absolute good and bad. We are all living and will continue to survive."

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