I watched the Dark Knight!
It was glorious.
The poster says 'Welcome to a world without rules' and Gotham City was made that way by one person: the Joker. He was insane, loves anarchy, and utterly, scarily but completely brilliant. His schemes! They are means without end - chaos without purpose but - wow.
The pure irony of Harvey Dent. The White Knight to juxtapose Batman, the Dark Knight. Who is the hero? Who will cross that line and break that one rule - who will turn away at the last moment, at risk to himself? It's a parallel to the ferry incident, the guilty vs. the innocent and whether fear will take control. Pure anarchy. (To the guy in the orange suit who threw it out of the window without a hint of hesitation - thank you for making me believe in the world again.)
Batman. Bruce Wayne. Yay to stealing the entire Russian ballet and putting them onto a yatch. Yay to swooping off a very tall building. Yay to disappearing while people aren't done talking - I want to know how you do it. Yay to your Lamborghini I WANT ONE. Yay to the interrogation room scene. And yay to swerving away.
I loved Dark Knight for its realism, complexity, morality and its questions. If those aren't what you're looking for, watch it for its action sequences, the multitude of things blowing up, very sharp knives, a magic trick invoving a pencil and the Joker, Two-Face's faces, the cars and the clown masks. You won't regret it (unless, of course, you're looking for sunshine and rainbows).
in memory of heath ledger
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