Saturday 19 July 2008

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

I love psychological movies. Especially the tearing them apart and have long meaty conversations dissecting them for hours on end. The Dark Knight is also going to feature in my dreams for a possibly traumatic while, I can tell. Fiction is a slanted reflection of the real world after all, even though its not a reality common to all. Thank god, sometimes. Not everyone falls madly in love and insane serial killers are not as widespread as tv shows seem to reflect. 

How many Jokers exist out there? Frustratingly, and possibly deliberately there is no psychological assessment of this maniac - the more or less good guys, in this shades of grey movie are too busy fighting him to figure him out. He has no history and he seems to make stuff up. Abusive father? Lost love? Irrelevant?  

Thinking of burning the world on a large-ish scale, the obvious examples are the LTTE and maybe Al-Qaeda but both those have reasons. What they've done is awful, but waking up at 3am, there are rationalisations which soothe their conscience, even though it may not seem justified to others. Surely everyone has a price in a broader sense of the word: something they want, not necessarily money. So then the Joker wanted chaos? A world tearing itself violently apart satisfied some need for ugliness? For everything around him to be as scarred and freakish as he is? He's just 'a dog chasing a car', no rules, no plans, no 'end' as such just any means necessary. 

Can't think of anyone like him, yet. Can you? 

3 comments:

Foxhound said...

How the heck have you seen it already? I'm dying to see it...

Yes sometimes I would like to watch the world burn... only sometimes! Also those words were in the song 'One Headlight' by the Wallflowers if you've ever heard it.

Movies and fiction tend to polarise everything in to good and evil, but in reality every action has some reason for it.

Gutterflower said...

Dude,why the long silence? :S
No posts from you in aaages.

Sunshine Junkie said...

Foxhound - Omgosh, I didn't realise it was in the song! and I love Wallflowers..hmmm... Well, hopefully there is a reason for every action, but what if there isn't?? :D

GF - Hey! I'm back, I think :D Am truely touched that you noticed, thanks :D :D