This is one of those all time best films. I grew up knowing about Batman, as my brother read the comic books. I never really got into the batman movies until I seen Batman Begins. This movie started to pull in my interest as to what Batman was all about.
The Dark Knight is a long movie, but it is entertaining throughout the movie as to what was going to happen next. I think if they were to cut the movie down to like 2 hours, we would have missed a lot of important pieces to this movie. They started the movie with lots of light and then eventually making it dark. I don't really like watching movies the portray darkness, because I find it harder to see things happening in the movie, but with The Dark Knight you could always see what was happening. Most movie's you see now have some form of a love interest in them just like this movie. Although Bruce wanted nothing more then to be with Rachel, she pretty much gave him the option to either be with her or be Batman. So when Bruce discovered that someone else wanted to protect Gotham city as much as he did, he went beyond to help him become the public face for everyone. But now Rachel had already fallen in love with Henry, before Bruce could just be himself.
There was a lot of action in this movie. Christopher Nolan's choosing of the actors he did, I feel was a risk but a good one, because each actor played their roles very well. Especially with choosing Heath Ledger, because of the movies he had played in the past like, Brokeback Mountain, 10 Things I Hate about you, and then A Knight's Tale, which that part went better with the Joker then his other parts. The Joker in this show was the one that kept my interest the most, with the way he talked, and was always licking his lips, and like smacking his mouth or like it seemed he had a mouth full of spit. The rich colors he wore, like his purple suit and bright orange shirt, along with his green hair and bright red lips. The Joker had 3 different reasons as to why his face was scared, but we never really knew why it was scared, although I believe it was the first story he told about his father. Heath's character as the Joker was one of the best parts he has ever played.
This movie has rich dramatics and very daring performances, within the show. Thank goodness they have stunt men/women to play those parts. How they made Harvey's face look they way they did, and how it match what he called in the movie a two faces internal affairs person. How Bruce's voice got deeper with the batman suit on, and the computer generated effects he could see with his suit on, and making the eyes like a flashlight. When you think of Gotham the town, I think of the Gothic live style some live, as most of the movie was in darkness and lots of black.
I was surprised that they let Rachel die in the movie, and had Harvey survive. I'm sure they did this to show us that, even though you are a good person you can always turn bad, when bad things happen to you. I did for awhile think that Rachel would be returning, and that the Joker never really did kill her, but it never happened. In the scene where Heath slides down the money, I thought that was Rachel sitting on top of the money tide up, but it wasn't.
Even though they say this was the ending of batman, I think there maybe another one in the future, because they ended it without ever really showing us the end, except for his things being destroyed, but he was never captured. Unless that was how it was meant to be, where the great Batman will always be out there, but now he can go on to live a normal life.
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