Dark Knight - a movie of class

There are superhero movies that thrill and excite and keep the viewers reverted to their seats for the duration of the movie and then there are the superhero movies that break every single stereotype you’ve ever come across and pave new roads into cinema, raising the bar to impossible heights. The Dark Knight falls into this latter category. Director Christopher Nolan, Who gave us Batman Begins, takes the Batman, franchise into a quasi-realistic realm with stories and scenarios that could well have been picked up from life as we know it today. So there’s Batman – Christian Bale, in a career redefining role- who’s torn between his vigilante life and the need to live like a normal person with someone he loves. Gotham city is divided in its opinion on Batman: should they support this vigilante and pave the way for fascism where one man dictates the law or should they outlaw him and let the white knights- here, Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) who’s the District Attorney determine to root out crime along with Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal) the deputy DA and Bruce Wayne’s love interest – take over the crime fighting? Heath Ledger, as everyone now knows, is the joker, that laughable bad guy from the Batman comics who Ledger now turns into not just any character but a force of nature. The joker is not interested in being evil, he only wants to spread anarchy; chaos is his bedfellow and he tells Batman, “I don’t want to kill you. You complete me” for without batman, his crusade would have no teeth. The film grapples with the issues of good and evil, the fine line between right and wrong and the basic nature of society and will leave you reanalyzing your stand on morality and what it really means. Go watch this movie; it’s worth every single penny. It’ll give you a new perspective of life.