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The Dark Knight Standard
PostedJuly 20, 2008
i12b007
from Tallahassee, FL
Chris Nolan has finally given fans of the comic-book genre a movie that not only creatively does justice to the story and characters, but elevates the playing field for the rest of Hollywood’s quick formulaic productions and sets a new standard in the adaptation of graphic art. To say that Chris Nolan is solely responsible however, is to do severe disservice to the superb writing, casting, acting, cinematography, and virtually every element that went into making this a great movie. I have tried to think of one thing that did not meet with the "Excellent" overall rating that I have given this movie; I suppose the only dissatisfying aspect would have to be that the creative geniuses in and around the making of this movie were forced to protract the story and its life on screen to the standard 2 hr and 30 min (which is pushing the limit as it were...) attention span of the general audience.
The Spiderman movies also took themselves seriously, but with the consummate amount of humor to alleviate the audience’s tension with the hero’s plight in the face of insurmountable odds and forces of evil. Where the Spiderman movies failed and the Dark Knight succeeds is the line between fiction and fact can be made more readily with a character that is a man and as such cuts and bleeds like men. This gives the filmmakers an opportunity to tell a story that indeed relates more to our human condition than most of the other super-hero movies. Nolan does a superb job of taking this key to our acceptance of Batman's reality and tells a real human story filled with life's ironies, pains, and the compromise of conceived moral conviction.
For anyone who has seen the movie, it should go without saying that Heath Ledger's Joker adaptation strikes a venerable chord and undoubtedly will go down in history as one of the great performances in all of comic-book based films. A posthumous honor is deserved on his part, as he was quite obviously an actor who took his craft very seriously, perhaps too much so...
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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