Rogueish

I’ve seen various people taking this poster to mean that The Dark Knight Rises will be straight-up neoconservative pro-cop propaganda, but I suspect this is a misreading, and that the film will actually be something worse: liberal propaganda. The problem with The Dark Knight wasn’t that it directly endorsed Bush-era war on terror policies, but that it presented the political debate around these policies as a series of spurious (and, to be honest, boring) moral “dilemmas”; I suspect the new Batman film will likewise present the kind of “nuance” and “seriousness” beloved of NY Times op-eds and the Obama administration.