The Dark Knight – Why so serious?
I never enjoyed the stories about superheroes with superpowers that supersave superpeople, but this time I wanted to give it a try. All I remember about Batman from my childhood is that a neighbour of mine wore similar clothes and he was always saying that he would save us all. In fact, one day he came and said (I was 11 years old at that moment) “at 3pm the thiefs are coming to Vaslui (my natal town) and they will attack us, but don’t worry I will save you all”. I remember being scared and not telling all this “secret” to my parents (??) and I remember him with the Batman costume shouting “come, thiefs, come, I will show you who is Batmaaan”. As a grown up, this neighbour of mine, is a completely normal person, in case there were doubts.
Anyway, going back to our theme, despite of what I expected from the movie I was very impressed. The movie is an example of how to make a movie based on a comic. It keeps all your senses awake until the end, it does not let you breathe, it always surprises you, and apart from this the photography and special effects are just perfect, they could not picture better Gotham city and the fear that its inhabitants felt, it could not picture better Harvey Dent, and of course, it could not picture better the Joker. After watching it I came to like Batman, he is a superhero, but the kind of superhero that does the things by himself, not the superpowers type of hero.
I assume there will be a second part of the movie, as for some of the characters the ending is not definite and I believe it was this way intentionally.
The movie has a rating of 9/10 on www.imdb.com with more than 300.000 votes until now and that makes it the best movies of 2008 and I think that is a fair rating and recognition for Chrisopher Nolan’s work. A great movie, indeed.
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Maybe I will see the film, too
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15 Jan 09 at 23:30
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Anil Mirchandani
21 Aug 09 at 15:44
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Hola, Sim.
Creo que lo que hace realmente que el Batman “funcione” tan bien es que, a la vez, tira de arquetipo y se presta a renovarlo… Para no enrollarme demasiado intentando explicarlo: los sentimientos confrontados de temor y fascinación que el personaje provoca renuevan emociones ya antes infundidas por otro mito clásico, el del vampiro – también terrorífico e fascinante, al mismo tiempo. Y, evidente, ambos deben sus predicados a los murciélagos – un icono que creo que desde que el hombre vivía en cuevas quedó ya grabado en el inconsciente colectivo. De ahí que la gran jugada de Bob Kane y Bill Finger haya sido aprovecharse de lo que ya llevamos dentro, supongo.
Pero es así, el Batman, aun cuando era aquella serie más patética que heroica; Cuando su malla, más que infundir miedo hacía descojonarnos; Aun así tenía su cosa, no sé. Lo que no se puede negar es que tanto Frank Miller como Chrisopher Nolan, cada uno en su terreno, le hayan rescatado de caminos algo tortuosos como, por ejemplo, ser interpretado por Michael Keaton, ¡Dios!…
Como último apunte, dices que supones que habrá segunda parte… pero es que esa ya es la segunda parte de Batman Begins. Pero secuelas seguro que no faltarán. ¡Y las veremos muchos!
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Marcelo
Marcelo
16 Sep 10 at 15:10