What the fuck is the difference between self-importance and pretentiousness, beyond mere subjectivity?
I don't see how this question relates to any of my own; nor how it may in any way be a defence of
The Dark Knight.
In other words, you don't have an answer.
No, I did, and do. I don't see how your question - "what is the difference between self-importance and pretentiousness" - is related to whether or not
The Dark Knight is pretentious.
Self-importance and pretentious aren't very far away from one another; I think The Dark Knight is pretentious in its self-promotion of "serious psychological drama". You can't make serious psychological drama out of the Batman character. You can't make socially relevant and politically sophisticated drama out of Gotham City, either, for that matter.
We've been through this.
Why, because you said so?
Not because I said so
per se, but I
have said so, and nobody has argued against it. The only arguments that people have thrown back at me is that this is a film, and is therefore not to be taken seriously. That's as laughable as it is weak. Try and convince me how one can make
plausible psychological drama out of the Batman character. Try and convince me Gotham City is a plausible fictional environment that can in someway mirror our own society.
That's what I'm getting at.
And saying, "Why aren't they, because you said so?" is equal to saying, "Why doesn't God exist, because you said so?"
There's no argument there. At all.