I guess you could label this part 2 of my recap of “The Dark Knight,” since I already did a post called “The Dark Movie?”
Though the movie did an excellent job of representing the wretchedness of man, specifically in the in the Joker and his understanding of man, there was one part that reflected the inherent good of man. With out ruining the movie for those who haven’t seen it, remember the Ferry scenes? It seemed that the writers of the movie where trying to emphasize the inherent goodness of men. First, I think if that scenario was in real life, don’t call me pessimistic, it wouldn’t have turned out the way it did in the movie (of course unless God superintended the hearts of man, which he does all the time).
From the Bible we know that men are not inherently good. Everyone is born a sinner and thus in the eyes of God are destined for his wrath (Rom 3:23 Eph 2:1-3). On the outside many people appear good, but in all actuality their hearts are evil and opposed to God. Unless one is covered in the blood of Christ, they are destined for eternal death.
That is why I disagree with (what I think) was one of the points of the ferry scene. People aren’t inherently good, there is no hope for man to be good unless a new birth brought upon by grace will make them good or right.
Aren’t the themes of this movie fantastic?
