Recently, the world
was shocked by the events called Panama Papers. It was a leak of almost 11,5
million files from the database of one of the world's biggest offshore law
firms (Harding). The leak showed the scale of the illegal money laundering that
many world leaders and influential people did.
Overall, the documents revealed the secret accounts of 142 politicians among
which there are twelve national leaders (Harding).
Similarly
to the Panama Papers events, in The Dark
Knight, there is a depiction of the scale of black market of money
laundering performed by mobsters in Gotham City. The scene, where mod leaders
gathered to discuss financial matters and talked that a small amount of money
(68 million!) was stolen from them, is a perfect depiction of the scale of
criminal activity performed by influential people (Nolan). The scene setting
shows that mobsters gathered in some in a kitchen of the restaurants to hide
their criminal intentions. Similarly, people, involved in the Panama Papers
crisis hid their money from everyone, to avoid paying taxes and supporting the
world's economy. Furthermore, a viewer can make a parallel between the scene,
where people load the truck with bags of money, and how politicians and some
world leaders move their money to the other side of the world to hide them. It
is interesting that in some sense, Joker, who ruined a criminal financial
system is similar to people, who stand behind the leak.
Works Cited
The Dark Knight. Dir. Christopher Nolan. Perf.
Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart. 2008. Warner Bros., 2008. Film.
Harding, Luke. "What Are the Panama Papers? A
Guide to History's Biggest Data Leak | News | The Guardian." The Guardian.
N.p., 5 Apr. 2016. Web. 11 Apr. 2016.
Reelchanger. "The Hero We Need: An In-Depth
Analysis of Batman in Post-9/11 America." Reel Change. N.p., 6 July 2012.
Web. 11 Apr. 2016.
Ahmad, when it comes to the world now days it seems to be all about money no matter what the situation may be. Money seems to run the world anymore and can bring out the evil in almost anybody and the joker does a great job of pointing that out in the film and you did a great job of pointing out the underground mob meeting. I did not look at the meeting in the way you did but I understand your point of view after you relate the mob meeting to the Panama papers case. Your example was great and you had some great details to relate them and it was interesting to see how you related them good job.
ReplyDeleteHi, Ahamd. I should say you did well on this blog assignment. We chose the same part but different scene as the example. The Dark Knight developed the story line with an economic issue, and the political event Panama Papers was an economic issue too. I think it is easy to find the similarly between these two events and link them together. I like you alternate analysis of similarly. The only regret, in some degree, you wrote this blog a little brief. As the assignment asked, we may looking for modes of the film, like lighting, colors, music and images.
ReplyDeleteAhmad, this scene came to mind when I was writing the blog prompt. I think it is interesting, as you point out, that the Joker becomes a bit of a hero in this reading.
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