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The Dark Knight
WARNING - SPOILERS!
With all the hype surrounding this movie, I was really excited to see it but wasn't sure if it could live up to my expectations. It most definitely did. This movie rocked. Heath Ledger completely shattered that role as the Joker. It's too bad he won't be able to play it again. :( Seriously, that was Oscar-worthy.
What really makes me sad about this movie is the whole thing with Rachel and Bruce. I've always been a sucker for the love stories between the hero and his girl. You know, it's always the guy who's the hero and the girl is just in danger because she's wanted by the hero. What about the woman hero with the normal guy who suffers from it? I want to see that movie. I guess it doesn't appeal to people to think of a guy as vulnerable needing a woman to come to his rescue. Okay... I'll get away from that and back to Dark Knight. Rachel and Bruce. I suppose their relationship is just doomed. I suppose her being dead would kind of ruin any chance of them being together... but you don't really know what she was really thinking or really wanted. I, of course, don't want her with that evil Two Faced Harvey Dent. Sure, she didn't know he had that evil side and he wasn't evil with her, and it was her death that pushed him over the edge... but goodness gracious! Just be with Batman! Of course, it could never work out and all that... blah blah blah. Gah! I just want one movie/TV show *cough* Smallville! *cough* that has the hero end up with a woman and it all ends happily ever after. There's always this hero thing that causes some sort of problem and prevents them from being together. Always! It's so freakin' annoying!
I'm so good at getting away from the point I'm trying to make. What I meant to ramble about was the fact that Rachel said that if Bruce gave up Batman that they could be together, but did she mean it? She immediately followed that with, "They won't let us be together." Was she just saying that? It's a good reason, regardless. If he gave himself up as Batman, there would be so many people who would be after him, and after anyone he cares about. It just wouldn't work out. Way to go, man! Rachel, just get over it and be with the man. It'll freakin' work out. Just chat with the writers of the script and they can set it up really easily for you. If she really was going to be with Bruce if he gave himself up, we won't know because her seeing Harvey give himself up as Batman and seeing Bruce do nothing about it made her write that DUMB letter. That made her think that Harvey was the guy for her! I don't know, Harvey had lots of people after his life and mad at him. It seems just as dangerous, if not more dangerous, for her to be with him rather than Bruce. What the heck? *sigh* Okay, I'll get over it. She wasn't the same Rachel from Batman Begins anyway. Though, I thought she did a really good job filling in for Katie Holmes. Good for her. That's a really tough spot to be in.
Okay, what else is there? Oh! The Joker's scars! Where did they really come from? He told two different stories. One that his dad gave them to him ("Why so serious?"), and one that he did it to himself to make his wife feel better. He told the first story to the criminal people that thought they had him dead, and the second one to Rachel. Of course Rachel could relate more to the wife beaten up story. A way to get him to get sympathy from her? He seemed very eager to tell people about his scars. He was going to tell Batman another story about his scars, but Batman cut him off. Too bad, I wanted to hear the story. He's definitely a very interesting character to think about. That's one part of the movie that I really loved. The Joker was a villain that I actually believed was a real person! A twised, sadistic person... but one that I could see actually existing. The old Batman movies didn't really have realistic villains. Ledger's Joker had makeup he didn't apply perfectly like Nicholson's Joker. It was just there to "send a message." He's there to play a very sick joke on you. Smile more! Hahahahahaha! Follow my plan!
The pencil trick. One of the most awesome scenes ever. That was the first real good look we got at the Joker, and it rocked my socks off. Though, he'd have to really slam that guy's head down hard to get the pencil to go through his head. Unless he got it through his ear or eye. *shutters* Okay, that's pretty sick, but true. If he tried to slam that guy's head onto the pencil just on the forehead I think the pencil just would've snapped. It was the eraser side sticking up. I'll just go with the eye theory and try not to be too grossed out by that mental image.
"It's not about the money, it's about sending a message." "This city needs a better class of criminal." So freakin' interesting. The Joker honestly just does what he does because it's all one big joke and wants to send messages to people. Sick and twisted messages, always with a smile on his face. That's what makes the opening scene so awesome. It wasn't just an action scene to get the audience's attention, which it also did, but it actually linked to the Joker's personality. He killed the pople helping him who just worried about how the money was going to split up. You thought it was so the Joker could have it all to himself, but he could care less. He ended up burning most of it, and using the rest of it on explosives and such to send more messages. He's a "better class of criminal" who just does what he does for his own entertainment and to send that message. I suppose that does make him a lot like Batman. Both just want to be symbols and send a message. The Joker just kills people and wants to send a bad message, while Batman's only rule is to not kill people and to send a message of hope. Both are "freaks," but with two different agendas.
That talk in the interrogation room was awesome. "They'll cast you out, like a leper." One of my favorite moments of the entire movie. He says it so playfully like it's a joke or he's explaining it to a child. "This is red, like an apple." It's really all one big joke to him. A cruel, sick joke.
This movie also tapped into the idea that someone not knowing something really is for the better. It was better for people in the city to think that Harvey Dent died as a hero. To know him by the left side of his face as his whole face. Yes, that makes sense. It was better for Bruce to think that Rachel really was going to leave Harvey so he wouldn't be utterly crushed... so Alfred burned the letter. I'm usually all for people knowing the whole truth, but if people heard that he was really a villain, that's all they would remember him for. He really was half and half, and just let that half out at the end. It's better for people to just focus on the really great guy that he was before that side came out of him. And about Rachel... well, I already got into that. I'm sticking with the idea that she really was for Bruce. She just didn't know that Bruce didn't know that Harvey was going to do that. Maybe. I don't know. *plugs ears and stars humming* I'm not listening! Rachel wanted Bruce!
*unplugs ears* Okay, what else is there to ramble about? Tons, I'm sure. How did his Batmobile become a motorcycle? Was it always like that? I'm assuming there's no salvaging that Batmobile. I know there're already plans for a sequel to this one. I'm going to assume that there will be some sort of new Batmobile for the next movie. I hope so. Batman without his Batmobile equals suckage.
Oh yeah, what the heck was up with that cell phone thing? How was he able to see everything so clearly like that? Some sort of sonar thing on every cell phone in the city, right? Or something? I don't understand how he could see everything with that much detail. I also saw the midnight showing and it's very possible that I just missed something important when they were explaining things. I just don't know how there could be a technology that could do that. I'll just go with it and try not to think about it too much. Yes, that's a good solution.
About this sequel I hear they are going to make, is everyone in the city going to hate Batman now? They freakin' crushed his searchlight thing. Ohh... that seems very interesting. The crime fighter that people don't like. Hm. I'm definitely looking forward to the next movie, then. I was looking forward to it regardless, but... yeah. Goodness I don't feel like my thoughts are very coherent. Maybe I should just stop now.
So, to sum up: this movie is freaking awesome.
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