Christ is not a character in the movie, but he is present throughout, in the sense that his defeat of Satan on the cross, through nonviolent love, put Satan on display, thus making the revelatory insights of the movie possible. This also is an idea which is articulated clearly by Girard. When The Joker says to Batman "I know the truth. There's no going back. You've changed things forever ... " his words intimate that he is really addressing another conversation partner, the same one to whom Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor was speaking.
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Lady Macbeth
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