What can you DO with a criminal that wants nothing but death in return?Īs for the other main roles: Maggie Gyllenhaal does a fine job transitioning to the role of Rachel after Katie Holmes, Michael Caine is a cynical but funny Alfred, and Gary Oldman does an impeccable Jim Gordon. How can you deal with a man that has no remorse, or personal ties? A sociopath this complete and this intelligent is capable of unspeakable acts, and The Dark Knight conveys this with aplomb. As the demented schemes the Joker concoct escalate, the darkness is choking, oppressive. The Joker is a man that has no agenda other than anarchy–as Bruce Wayne tries to find SOME way to get through to him, Alfred tells him that there are some men that do not need reason for their madness–they just are. Perhaps the best thing about this film is the feeling of futility in the face of madness. In a particularly morbid line lifted from Jerry Maguire, the Joker tells Batman–“You complete me.”
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All his actions in this movie helping the mob bosses, all stem back to his fixation with the man behind the mask, who he sees as a freak…like him. As the Joker says to Harvey, he’s like the dog that chases a car in the street: should he ever CATCH the car, he would not know what to do with it–it’s the DOING, the CHASE that matters. The Joker cares nothing for ends or purposes his only purpose is chaos. He makes this movie, and manages to blow Jack Nicholson’s version outta the water. Ledger is not overhyped in the slightest–his performance is perfection, simply put. Heath Ledger’s Joker blends the comical flair of Jack Nicholson’s portrayal, but manages a terrifying edge that speaks true to its source material–the Joker of The Killing Joke, The Man Who Laughs and The Dark Knight Returns is personified flawlessly here. But when Harvey Dent, Rachel Dawes and Jim Gordon manage to bring a serious case against ALL of the major criminals in Gotham, they decide to take the Joker up on his offer, and let the proverbial dog out of his cage…and Gotham needs all the help it can get.
At first, the criminals dismiss this as the machinations of a madman, a freak. With his moldy colored hair, his smeared, creased makeup, and scarred face, he tells the bosses that in order to stop the wave of hope mucking up their plans, they have to treat the cause, not the symptoms. The masked Batman has become a symbol of hope for the people, and noble minded folk like District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant Jim Gordon are not afraid to take a stand against crime and the criminals they might have been coerced into shutting up for in an earlier time. The thing is, the criminals of Gotham are hitting a slump. With old mob boss Falcone indefinitely incapacitated, new bosses, like Marconi, have taken up the reins. And Batman is busy at work, dismantling Gotham’s money laundering and mob scene criminal by criminal. The Batcave has been relocated and revived in an underground lair, beneath a Wayne Enterprises construction site.
Rest assured that it is tempered with hope, but know that this is not your light-hearted Tony Stark or delightfully camp Indy flick.Īs Wayne Manor has been destroyed in the events of Batman Begins, Bruce and Alfred take up residence in a penthouse. This is a film that lives up to its name and relishes in the darkness of its subject material–and at 2 and 1/2 hours long, the oppression is complete.
Take this as a caveat–if you go to watch The Dark Knight this weekend (as you all should do), do not expect the light, super fun flicks we have come to expect. The Dark Knight says ‘eff-you’ to all that nonsense–this is a winter movie masquerading as a summer blockbuster. While arguably Wall-E deals with deeper issues, all these movies have in common a summer blockbuster-y levity to them. It blew my expectations out of the water.Įxamining the summer blockbusters so far, we have Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Wall-E and Hellboy II. As you probably have surmised from the header and the fact that we are having a Batman weekend, my expectations for The Dark Knight were astronomically high.Īnd The Dark Knight was everything I could ever have wanted.
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Somehow, some way, someone upstairs must’ve decided that I deserved an early birthday present, and I got some free passes to see The Dark Knight yesterday evening. Movie directed by Christopher Nolan screenplay by Christopher Nolan and Johnathan Nolan starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Morgan Freeman
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