#SlavojŽižek argues in his essay "The Politics of Batman" that Harvey Dent, not the Joker, is Batman’s real foil. Against Batman’s vigilantism—or rather, against the violent excess of capital—the system, according to Žižek, produces its own excess, one that is even more brutally than Batman himself. When Batman takes the blame for Dent’s crimes, he upholds the noble lie that sustains neoliberal faith: that heroes, not structures, fix broken systems. #TheDarkKnight https://boxd.it/9KdEpn