Poochaz’s View on the Dark Knight

If I am to bet which movie of the Batman franchise is the greatest of all time, my hat goes to Batman Begins. And it’s not because Christian Bale’s take on the role is much edgier than Keaton’s, Kilmer’s and Clooney’s. The scriptwriting and the story line are at its best.

Most of the previous Batman films display a anti-social superhero with no knack of displaying his emotions. Director Christopher Nolan made Batman in Batman Begins more human than a demigod, capable of getting hurt, angry, and afraid. The follow-up motion picture, Dark Knight, is also a gem of the Batman series.

Dark Knight further explores Bruce Wayne’s/Batman’s struggle to be both characters at the same time. All the while both lives are starting to fall apart. Bruce is having a hard time getting back love interest Rachel Dawes with district attorney Harvey Dent on the dating scene, while Batman is having a hard time nailing the Joker while the whole city is blaming him for the rise in the crime rate.

While I can safely say that drama fills the greater part of the movie than action, it is a move that has been calculated with extreme precision. Nolan’s second take on Batman has a dark, gloomy feel. An attribute previous Batman movies lacks. The last scene of the movie, where Batman takes the fall, is perhaps the most touching part of the whole franchise. While everybody expects Batman to be glorified, Dark Knight reduces him to a vigilante wanted for the laws he broke.

If that does not make it a great movie, then perhaps a it being record-breaking $500 million box office hit will change your mind.