The Black Knight pays off royally

Anyone who's willing to spent 150 minutes groaning through the latest Batman film, the Black Knight is playing the game of the sado machochism [sic]. Everyone says it's the late Heath Ledger's film. His cackling Joker brings the film to life. Sociologists of the film will find that it speaks more to the fears and loathing of America towards foreigners. And why not? It may not be fair but underlying the mad insouciane of America's ruling class of a hedonism which makes Fellini's La dolce vita seem like a kindergarten class, the US is living off the monies from east Asia and Europe and oil rich Arab countries to sustain a way of life of a stinking corpse. And yes, the first weekend gate of us$158m, makes investors happy, and of course, means that they will churn out more dark night films of gore and despair and fiddle as Washington burns and Hollywood snort more cocaine of easy money.