Why so serious

So does the Joker’s famous statement along with some other wicked lines in the movie “The Dark Knight”. Watching the pure two and a half hour of action, wit and flawless entertainment, the Batman sequel takes a deep dive into one of movie’s iconic psychopathic villain hiding under an ironically scary clown make-up, green hair and purple suits. It was so much fun to see how Heath Ledger showed no nonsense approach in acting out what could be the most terrifying yet profoundly complicated character the Joker is.

Even though we’re supposed to examine carefully how Christian Bale turns out Batman to be that dark as opposed to what heroes’ images should be, there is something painfully attractive in the Joker’s bad acts which make his unrighteousness seem to be justifiable. After all, he’s really one hell of a badass yet very smart villain. He has this ability to convince people to do things and think the other way around. His twisted logic can make even the viewers think twice about the depth of this character.

In the hospital scene with “two-face” Harvey, the Joker blames Gordon and all other officials in their own faults as a result of plans. Their being “schemers” only makes them worse. Yet how does he explain well coordinated bank robberies, bombs placed in ferries, hospital bombing and scheduled killings of the commissioner, judge and supposedly Harvey.

This may just be a movie but there’s an unquestionable logic in the plot that is there’s no rules. A hero is not always necessarily a good knight. Not every Joker is funny. In reality, there’s only anarchy. It’s just how people act on it that makes it organized. We see the world in different views, each of us. But we live well with each other. Because we don’t live according to what we see, we live in relation to other people’s views. Harmony. Black and White. Yin and Yang. You’re serious. I’m not. That’s why we all live.