The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight with all it’s hype is simply another Batman movie. Everybody but the director gets zapped– the graphics and sound effects, car crashs, buildings blown up– if you are into that stuff, you are in hog heaven with this pic. Keith Ledger is good as the Joker. I’m not sure about all the accolades for him whether they are following the good old North Carolina admonition, “do not speak ill of the dead” or whether he was truly that good. Since I an not into this genre of movies, hard to know. My grand daughter gave it a six and a half on a ten point scale. So…

There were some issues of morality if one could find them among the car crashes; Good and evil played their part and for most of the movie, evil won. The basic story revolved around the Joker, acting on the mob’s behalf trying to zap the white knight type DA who was putting the mobsters in jail and taking their money. Along the way, he might also zap Badman, who has a love/hate relationship with the city The Joker, however, has a separate and slightly more complicated plan: to prove that evil could best good.

With thousands of car crashes, to include people getting zapped, Batman riding his super motorbike, explosions, I frankly had a heck of a time keeping up. There’s Bruce Wayne’s support team of butler and R/D guy, of course.
The showdown comes when the Joker has staged the ultimate test between good and evil in the form of two competing casts having to choose self preservation or death. Can’t tell you how they choose? You might actually like this stuff. The Joker does finally win the argument but on a bit of a twist.

Although the movie is not my thing, obviously it is for many, based on receipts. But, then again, if we judge strictly on money with the love of money conceived as the ultimate choice between good and evil, the Joker (there is a fascinating scene toward the end where the Joker makes a bold moralistic statement about the evil of money as he is burning this huge pile of it while accusing the mobsters of being only interested in money) might always win, afterall, if the movie receipts are the final criteria.