The Dark Knight

What can I say, that everybody else hadn’t? I’d say it all over again though. Brilliant. Sheer and utter brilliance. This is probably the top gun of it time. The movie everybody would talk about twenty years from now. Every time a person mention comicbook to movie, somebody would call “The Dark Knight”. I tell you why the movie struck me, and left me thinking, most awesome ever. (I thought this just as the “THE DARK KNIGHT” flashed on to the screen and the credits started to roll. In fact I thought it, in slow motion. With intonation at every single syllable.) I always thought Batman was a spastic hero. I hated the comics. Too one-dimensional. He was amongst the flatest ever hero. Nothing like Spiderman. He plays with the girls by day and rids Gotham of scum by night. Than along comes Christopher Nolan, and his screenwriters, and he changes all this. He gives batman dimension. Gotham takes true form, it loses the mono-dimensional impression portrayed in previous films and in the comics. It no longer is just a playground for psychotic villains, and nefarious mobs. The sense that is given by the movie is that, their world is not different from ours. Its real like ours. He creates a depth to Gotham. I think this is seen very clearly in the scene where somebody tries to shoot Reese because a hospital would be destroyed if he were alive. The idea of anarchy was well expressed. Yes there is the lots of crazy people running around, but at the same time we have members of the general public shooting at fairly innocent people. The scripted mono-dimensional world would have just had tons of people all running away from the terror, which is sort of an organised chaos. But the truth is, at the end of the day, the movie strikes a chord. How good triumphs over Evil, yet at the same time its not as simple as Good trumping Evil. Instead portrayed is how people are not willing to accept the world as it is, but would rather see it for what they believe it to be, even in all the chaos and anarchy. Its almost a social message, the movie. But now, Why So Serious?