Random Thoughts on Dark Knight (I know it's not a Horror Movie)

These are two first thoughts on Nolan's Dark Knight, so they'll be fairly rough and incomprehensible at first.

• This movie should not have been PG-13. I'm not sure what kind of nightmares Christian Bale and Heath Ledger are going to give kids, but it ain't gonna be pretty.
• I think the Joker is Zizek's "sticky metaphor" for the emptiness at the center of PoMo film. He is the center/monster around which everything revolves in this movie, and he is the agent of chaos, the emptiness at the center of humanity and civilization who sees the man behind the curtain so to speak. He has no faith in plans, schemers, or authority. No truck with money or logic. He is in the moment so utterly and completely that his past is a mishmash of lies (at least in this film, though not in the graphic novels). His past doesn't matter, and he couldn't care less about his future. He lives, impulsively, moment to moment, and--as a gangster (well played by Eric Roberts) summed it up--he has no rules. His philosophy is the focus of the film and the connector for all the different story lines, characters, etc. This nothingness, this nihilistic chaos-birther is the center of the movie's plot and theme. This is the monster that Zizek's modernist filmmakers won't show, but it is the way PoMo film shows most of its characters--through the monster and persona non grata.