Sunday, August 17, 2008

The Dark Knight

To me, this movie should be called the Joker more than the Dark Knight. No way that I am indicating this movie is a joke, but Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker outshines the role of the batman. Nevertheless, this is one of the best Batman movies on the big screen.

In this movie, you will see the rise of Joker and the making of Two-face. As mentioned earlier, the role of Joker is portrayed brilliantly by Heath Ledger. The Joker is portrait as this crazy individual who seeks chaos. No longer is the criminal in the super hero movie portrait as a one dimensional lunatic that just seek chaos. Joker is not only seeking chaos, but he is always playing a mind game with everyone and creating traps for everyone to fill in. I remember when Jack Nickleson portrayed the Joker in the 90's, Joker is just portrayed as this lunatic that seeks chaotic. Never was joker being portrayed as this master mind criminal.

Harvey Dent, aka Two face, was also being introduce in this movie (towards the end). The movie did a good job explaining why Dent turn from the light of Gothem into a master criminal. the lost of Love and the betral of the commerade made him start doubting the justice he belives in and turned himself against everything he ever believe. I however did not capture why he was called Two faced when he was working in district before his face was burned.

Even though this is one of the best Batman movie, I have to say the role of Batman is much less memoriable. Not saying Chrsitan Bale did a poor job portraying the role of Batman, is just that the storyline of the criminal seems much stronger.