“I think you and I are destined to do this forever…”
That’s the last thing the Joker says to Batman in The Dark Night (2008), proclaiming the two will fight in perpetuity, the former hanging off a 50-story building and still not taking any of it seriously. Batman will try to fix Gotham until he dies trying—believing he can control the world around him—while the Joker is content to keep it all a clown show, thinking life is just brutish and short.
And then there’s me, watching the movie, wondering which of the two philosophies holds more water or if I’d prefer if both characters would stop pontificating about Enlightenment philosophy and end this two-and-a-half hour movie.