Batman: The Dark Knight Rises
example · film: The Dark Knight Rises ·
retold in 3 talks
A 'disgusting', 'contradictory' film he likes because it imagines the impossible, people's power on Manhattan, but symptomatically can only imagine it through the film's ideological frame.
≤2000talks it is told in, per year2026
As told 3
“What I like is that it imagines the impossible, people's power on Manhattan.”
“Batman proposes this solution: if we make this public... this will ruin confidence of people in the law”
“Bane. But my god he does the only genuine ethical act in the film, saving the small girl.”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais1Hardt and Negri1Ray Brassier1Alison Tyler1Marion Cotillard1Jo Esterhaz1Liam Neeson1Martin Sheen1
alongside works
Every retelling 3
A 'disgusting', 'contradictory' film he likes because it imagines the impossible, people's power on Manhattan, but symptomatically can only imagine it through the film's ideological frame., illustrating the true utopia
In The Dark Knight, Batman takes the blame for a crime committed by the public prosecutor to preserve public trust in the law, illustrating the 'necessity of a lie' and Bush/Cheney logic., illustrating necessity of a lie
29:37 "THE DARK KNIGHT RISES is a Conservative Liberal Film" - Slavoj Žižek (2012) | TIFF REWIND2012 · 1:09:18
The villain Bane performs the only genuine ethical act (saving a girl), showing the film 'tries to lie but cannot even fully lie'., illustrating false film logic