August 6th, 2012
Two pieces over the weekend, the first a review of David Kirby’s Death at SeaWorld in the Wall Street Journal.
The second, the Batman nerd opus. It’s not quite on the level of this:
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Should be noted that Kirby wrote an absolutely wrong-headed book on mercury in vaccines a few years back, so grain of salt.
REPLY
Nedward August 6, 2012 at 4:33 pm
I thought the most surprisingly conservative element of the 2nd one was Heath Ledger’s ever-shifting explanation of his scars; it’s rare when a sociology-minded movie takes the premise that evil people don’t need a reason to be evil.
Haven’t seen the newest one but am reluctant to buy into this analysis of Bane as a Lenin figure. It sounds kind of like a forced reading. However, the movie Bane does seem more interesting than the print version