The Dark Knight

For this review, I chose to watch the film The Dark Knight. This movie is of course about the infamous comic book hero that we all know and love named Batman. In this movie of the world renowned caped crusader, he is up against an man who doesn’t want money or anything logical no, his only desire is to watch the world burn, a mentality that our hero does not understand in the beginning It is because of this that the Batman has trouble combating the Joker and his plans. The Dark Knight really changes throughout the course of this film, he must seek new depths to his methods to finding and taking down criminals, must come to understand a new kind of villain- one without rules, with a truly mad but effective logic to his designs, and who really will go to the limits even if only for a laugh.

One of the only friends of the Dark Knight in this tale is referred to as the White Knight of Gotham named Harvey Dent. All of the citizens of Gotham think Dent is the new hero, one without a mask, one who the people can see in the bright of day and who can kelp to clean up the corrupted streets of Gotham while his dark counterpart sleeps off the night before. In his weaker hours, Harvey has a fetish with the game of chance, always leaving many more important decisions and situations up to the flip of his coin, and as the coin goes soaring through the air flipping over again an again just like night and day, just as the Dark and White Knights change shifts. Unfortunately, it is on Batman’s side of the coin in which the most stunning and awful events take place, which is why everyone, even Harvey, turns on the hero of the night.

The themes to the movie are to prove a point, and they are obvious ones because they are demonstrated and talked about all throughout the film. The themes are about unbiased, unprejudiced chance in a world that isn’t fair, even the best can fall and can be broken into so many pieces that they no longer resemble any part of the person that they once made up, but people can also be so incredibly noble that they can become the exact opposite of what they truly stand for if need be. If something needs to happen, if it deserves to happen, then a hero will come forth and make it so.

This film, I thought was very inspiring and thought provoking amongst its madness and corruption that it portrays so very well. Practically every major character in this film flips their roles when compared to their old time comic book look-alikes. The Batman must feign to be something he isn’t, Dent must do what he thinks makes the world fair, the Joker stays pretty much true to his character but the role is enacted so well by Mr. Ledger that he deserves to stand out whether his character changes or not, and the newly appointed Commissioner Gordon has to do whatever it takes to make sure that the people of Gothom City keep up their hope and believe that one day they will have their salvation.