HARVEY DENT, BATMAN, AND JESUS

Okay, so Stacey and I went to see The Dark Knight on Saturday. The movie was really good, really, really dark but good. So dark in fact that Stacey couldn't really enjoy it. I liked it however. But this post is not a review... it has nothing to do with the quality of the film, plot, or actors.

If you have not seen this movie and plan to do so. DON'T READ THE REST OF THIS POST. We're off the edge of the map mate, here be spoilers....



Joker is the Villain of this flick. He is an insane, mentally deranged fiend who helplessly warps Harvey Dent, Gotham City's white knight. Harvey is Martin Luther King in the beginning of the film, and a Klansman near the end. The whole movie he is trying to prove his acceptability to the masses by locking away criminals, but his actions have only produced more desperate and violent terror on the streets of Gotham. Half-way through the movie, Dent crosses a line. He wants to destroy the joker but seeks to do so by beating a schizophrenic man for information. Later his will and mind are broken when the love of his life is blown to bits as he is saved and listens to her. In the hospital Joker convinces him that his friends are really to blame and he goes on a killing spree on everyone involved in the death of his love. Harvey is killed in the end but rather than allow him to be condemned, Batman takes the blame for Harvey's crimes. All this even after Dent has tried to kill him. Dent, although it's not revealed, survives but lives as the infamous 2face, his white knight persona dies. Now Batman carries the blame for Dent's actions, Dent lives by reputation a saint, but actually a villain.

Isn't this slightly reminiscent of what Jesus has done for us? Our souls have been corrupted by the enemy of God, Satan. We are both victims and hopeless villains, but Christ will not let us die without making us as saints. So our old self dies, we live on with a flawless reputation and continually vile actions, always protected by the escape goat of Christ. Of course we are indwelt with the Holy Spirit of God who continually works in us to sanctify us until the day that Christ returns to claim us, where Harvey just denigrates further into madness. Thank God for the anti-curse! The Remedy of Satan's corruption, that is redemption in Christ for all those who believe.