The massacre at a cinema in Colorado where audiences were enjoying
The Dark Knight Rises – the culmination of Christopher Nolan's Batman movie trilogy – seems to have provoked only a feeble discussion of gun control that is going nowhere, and
very little on the showing of extreme violence in movies. The contrast with an earlier superhero film I have praised here –
Marvel's Avengers – is very marked. I don't believe that the fact this massacre happened during the
Dark Knight Rises rather than the latter is merely coincidental. Both deal with the battle of good and evil, but in very different ways. In fact two different kinds of imagination are
