Spoilers ahead for The Dark Knight. The Dark Knight, and the bulk of Christopher Nolan’s filmography, is about lies. It’s about the lies we tell ourselves in order to live and to interact with other people. For Nolan, he sees deception not as an inherently malevolent destructive force, but as a tool. After all, Nolan’s profession as a storyteller could be uncharitably framed as “professional liar.” He tells you things that haven’t happened in order to illuminate a larger truth, and Nolan’s films happen to be concerned with the nature of truth. Nowhere is that …
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