“It’s also, I think, the real difference between these two movies. What Wink understood, and what Brand New Day accidentally demonstrates, is that the Powers are at their most dangerous not when they’re being debated but when they’ve stopped being named at all. The Dark Knight forces its surveillance machine into the light and makes both its hero and its audience answer for it. Brand New Day builds a more sophisticated version of the same machine, wires it into an AI with a personality, and never asks the question in the first place. One movie treats mass surveillance as a wound. The other treats it as a given.” — Tyler Huckabee on Facebook via David Dark
