The Dark Knight.
Hello my so dear readers,
One more week I’m here, fulfilling my duty of share my
love for the seven art with you, cinema lovers. The problem is that, like
usually, I haven’t got much time to analyze Christopher Nolan’s movie as a result of this week being a foolish one. But
I’ll try to bring the majority of the thoughts which invaded my head and have
been floating on my mind since I saw the movie last Christmas, and make a
critic for which Heath Ledger would be proud.
Why I watched
it?
Some people have as Christmas’ customs: be together,
make presents and all that kind of stuff. And don’t get me wrong, in my family
we do the same, but I’ve some special habit on these notable days, and it’s:
sicken. I was ill Christmas’ Eve so I couldn’t go out with my friends and I
decided to stay at home watching a film with my brother. They were passing The Dark Knight Rises on the digital plus
and it caught our attention the same moment we started seeing it. But there
were some things that we didn’t understand due to we had seen Batman Begins but not The Dark Knight, that made us lose at
some points of the movie and despite that we really enjoyed the film. And New
Year’s day we saw The Dark Knight to
complete the trilogy which had amazed us. Now I want to share my opinion with
you and I wouldn’t love nothing more than that you made some reviews.
Original
title: The Dark Knight
Duration:
147min.
Director:
the master Christopher Nolan.
Screenwriter:
Jonathan Nolan and Christopher Nolan.
Country:
EE.UU.
Genre:
thriller, action, drama and science fiction (superhero)
Year:
2008.
Music:
James Newton and Hans Zimmer.
Cast:
Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, Maggie
Gyllenhaal and Morgan Freeman.
Summary: Batman (Bale) returns to
continue his fight with the crime which has established at Gotham’s streets, with
the aid of the commissary Jim Gordon (Oldman) and the new district attorney,
Harvey Dent (Eckhart), he will try to clean Gotham of those criminals. All is
going as the planned till they face the head of the “curve”, the Joker
(Ledger). Whereas Batman is fighting a battle with his new smartest adversary,
Bruce Wayne is having an internal fight debating with himself about what a hero
is and what a justice man, trying to find the difference between them and to
protect Rachel (Gyllenhaal).
First
impression: the film is
overrating.
Second
impression: what an
intelligent screenwriting!
I think of the movie as a bridge between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight Rises, but the most marvelous bridge that I’ve seen
since that bridge which contemplated the love of Robert Kincaid and Francesca
Johnson on The Bridges of Madison Count.
The first time I watched the film, the first thing that came to my mind when it
ended was that the lack of that wonderful music on the action scenes was
something that I would never forgive, and I’m still mad at them for that
reason. But the movie has something more than action scenes; it has a great
story which is connected to the first film and the third, but it also has a
connection between the events that happen on each scene although I must say
that the scenes themselves haven’t a good connection.
With the “social experiment” that the Joker makes, we
finally understand what he wants, what is his purpose on doing these things. He
gives a remote to two boats to blow up the other boat if one of the two boats
presses the button he’ll let that boat live. The experiment is just for proving
that people are corruptible like Dent.
Why Bruce believes
in Harvey Dent? Because he feels
like if the day when Gotham would never need him again has come. He takes a
load off knowing that Gotham is going to have a real hero and that he could
start a new life being just Bruce Wayne.
About the triangle of Batman, the Joker and Harvey
Dent.
For me, there are two key scenes at the movie: the
first one is the scene of the confrontation between Batman and the Joker at the
prison, when they’ve just captured the joker for the first time. The dialogue
between the two characters is magnificent. It’s true that on that scene is the Joker
the one who speaks more. And what a monologue that he has!
What
would I do without you? Go back to ripping off Mob dealers? No, no. -
The Joker to Batman.
The other scene is the one in which the Joker, the
agent chaos, goes dressed like a nurse to pay a visit to Harvey who is at the
hospital and tries to find the dark face of Dent that it’s very well
represented by the burnt side of his face. Like a metaphor which wants to tell
us that his bad face has come out with the death of Rachel and as he loses
everything he wants to make the responsible ones pay for their actions, but
without using the justice’s method that separates the harmony that the justice affords
from the personal satisfaction that the revenge provides.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRG1tWQN6e8#
Harvey Dent
The Joker
Batman
There are two characters which are on the good side.
And between them there’s a difference: one keeps the glory on his person and
the other keeps it in the symbol. What can it means? I supposed that the one
that wants to make justice but likes to be, not recompensed economically, but
recompensed with the fame is more corruptible as a result of him being like the
others. What about Bruce? He isn’t recognized because he’s hidden behind a
mask, not for fear, but because he’s recompensed when he accomplishes his
objectives.
And then there’s the Joker who is insane and kills for
pleasure not to obtain something, therefore we’ve a similitude with Bruce and
he. And there’s also the thing that he has his ideas and anybody can’t corrupt
them, like Bruce’s ideas.
The point that holds the two scenes is the reaction of
the good ones on the movie. Bruce goes save Rachel but he doesn’t kill the
Joker tough he really wants it, and on the other hand Harvey is convinced by
the Joker to let his dark side go out. This is the main difference between that
true hero who has a face but that takes the law into their own hands, Harvey,
and Batman: He’s the hero Gotham
deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we’ll hunt him, because he can
take it, because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian, a watchful
protector .A dark knight. - Gordon.
The three of them are connected by good and bad.
Surprise?
Aaron Eckhart who is indescribably good in his role.
He doesn’t just perform Dent’s character but he compliments it. Remarkable, how
beautiful he makes the transformation of his character from being the good
Harvey Dent, the district attorney, to be the vindictive Harvey Two-Face.
Harvey Dent is the characters that since the begging
of the movie I didn’t like, maybe because he stole Rachel from Bruce. I
understand that he chose the security which Harvey can give her but what I
can’t understand is why she continues giving confusing signals to Bruce.
The worst.
The scenes start and end without having a relation
with each other structurally talking.
The best.
The performances of this BRILLIANT cast. Highlight
Heath Ledger, Christian Bale and Aaron Eckhart. The great story. And of course
the PERFECT music. We’ll always remember Ledger’s laugh that put the willies.
Mark: 9
Remember that this is my opinion, so it isn’t
necessary that it concurs with yours.
You
either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
That’s all!
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