I am normally a major skeptic of zeitgeist readings of films for reasons I’ve gone into at great length, but watching clips of the Joker from The Dark Knight pop up all over the Internet as a response to our current WTF political and financial situation, I’m tempted to reconsider.

Then again, I was on board with reading the Joker as purposeless chaos and cruelty all along. It’s really the political climate that seems to be tailoring itself to the character, not the other way around.

Also, remember that thing I said about politics that one time between 2003 and 2006 or so?

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