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But indeed, Gordon represents rationality, albeit in this case an aberrant rationality: they have reduced your daughter to a wheelchair, tortured and ridiculed her, and you still care about the rules (how obvious it is that Moore is not American!) even though you know that the other side will never understand. This is also madness, at least in the eyes of the vast majority of Batman readers (who, for context, I remind you are American). Then, it’s obvious; I remember that in Batman's "sickness," Gordon is traditionally the one who keeps him far from the abyss of pure vengeance, but the Bat's obsession being well-founded in individual episodes is quite firmly established in comic history ;). Moore's revolution lies in giving a similar reading to the Joker, "stripping" him of that aura of a rogue who is both terrifying and merely picturesque, granting him a dramatic depth that would later be adopted by anyone facing the character. To clarify, I don’t think at all that Americans are a people who don't care about rules in general (we Italians are much worse from this point of view), but I do think that regarding the issue of penalty/punishment, defense/self-defense, Gordon's behavior could indeed be viewed as quite "solitary."

Mmm, I don't agree. The Joker does everything to impose this vision (which, in Batman's case, is correct) and the phrase towards the end by Gordon (I'll quote it verbatim) "I want him in prison, and I want him to go there according to the rules" makes it clear that this is the deviance we are dealing with; the fact that one must be forced to respect the rules to not let someone who blissfully breaks them win is, in fact, an obsession: in this case, the Joker, in a sense, wins. Batman, I remind you, is not born twisted; he becomes that way, just like the Joker. This is the commonality that makes them somewhat similar. Only the responses are different. Thank you for stopping by.

I thank everyone for the comments and for the approval!

Oh my God, I would gladly give it to Freud ("Viennese witchcraft") 1, the others that Kind mentions, definitely not...

It may be, it's human; you could be wrong once in a while too.

R.I.P.

Among the most beautiful films of this year.

It feels so "constructed": so painful that it seems fake. Maybe I'm wrong.

In their own way, they've done enjoyable things: I still listen to their first two albums every now and then.

Masterpiece.