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"The Dark Knight"

There is a certain thrill to see the "bat logo", the same that adorned so many shirts in the summer of 1989, return again. I think it was this image for me at the age of nine that first created a sense of the "summer blockbuster".

To see it again on shirts in HK twenty years later brings the circle of US culture, and global capital, complete for me. I feel that excitement, and perhaps collective pride, of knowing HK has a place in the movie.

It's nice to think that this movie might connect me with friends a world away. Perhaps even more interesting is to overhear Chinese comment, "Christian Bale is a lot of fun!" Globalization is a funny thing! :)

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