2. The Dark Knight
Yes. Batman. I absolutely love this whole trilogy, but I have to write about this this part, well because it’s one of my favorite movies ever. I am a big fan of Marvel but nothing compares for my love of Batman. Out of all the heroes that exist he’s the one I connected with the most.
Now here is second thing I have to get right out. I completely and utterly love Heath Ledger, and not just because of this movie. I’m glad this movie was made, mostly because when it came out, people really saw how talented Heath is, and it was clear that this movie made him one of ‘the greats’. Even though he showed us he was a legend way before the Joker. This is also one of those movies I can watch anytime. Packed of action and tension with incredible dialogues (especially Heath’s) that cut like a blade. I mean, the man gave a performance of a fucking lifetime, he completely transformed himself in more than one way to give it, and it had cost him his life. We didn’t really deserve him, but I’m glad we had him. I probably sound like an sappy idiot right know, but like for real, I shed a tear every time I see his face on the screen. So you can imagine what happened when I watched the documentary “I Am Heath Ledger”..I’m not gonna go there..
Joker was always one of the most mysterious and wicked characters in the comic book universe. His story was always so dark, but kind of unreachable to us until “The Dark Knight”. It showed us that there’s a lot more to his background, and for the first time everyone saw that Joker is not just some crazy killing clown. He is such an interesting and complex character. Batman, is actually not very much different than Joker, if you could “strip” them of their roles in the story. They are both emotionally damaged individuals with traumas behind them, and well, they’re both kinda delusional. They both go different ways as those damaged individuals. Bruce becomes Batman, and Arthur (his name reveals in the new Joker film) becomes the Joker. It makes so much sense that Joker feels Batman completes him. I love Batman as a hero because I think it a great presentation of how a “hero” or ‘someone who wants to save and help everyone, but doesn’t really know how to help himself’ usually is. He’s lonely, emotionally closed off, and he doesn’t really know who he is underneath the mask he puts on for people. In this case literally. He lost the people he loved very young, and then he lost himself. Every hero has his tragic, broken side, but only in Batman we can see some realistic presentation of that same side, as well as seeing him as a hero he is. It’s emotional in a way, for me. I don’t really know how to explain it better than that.
So yeah, I love Batman’s story and the character of Joker so much, and naturally, this movie had a huge impact on me, fueled my desire to write even more, and kind of changed my life. Definitely one of Nolan’s best.