Day 5 - 01/05/2019

  The Dark Knight steamrolls the action genre and asks its own apparent unanswerable question: if it is a "superhero" movie or not. Going deeper than that, Christopher Nolan directs the second installment of the series, with a "post neo-noir" picture all by itself, continuing with his main cast from Batman Begins but with a special sauce called Heath Ledger.  

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  The Dark Knight is about Gotham City, a place of crime and corruption where few souls believe in its future to try to rescue it from damnation. The ones that attempt though, Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale), Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) and Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman), have to face the wickedness of a new threat that calls him the Joker (Heath Ledger). With his evildoings and criminal mastermind, the Joker tests the moral limits of the city, where only the incorruptible can stand against him.

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  The greatness of the film comes from its versatility, which stands as a third generation of noir, at times feeling like a thriller, exploding with great action scenes and taking the interaction between every character as a vital part of the tale, not leaving anyone unfairly misrepresented or underappreciated. It portrays the cruelness that Gotham can represent with his antagonist in the form of the Joker, someone that is invulnerable to what he's best at, such as intimidation and fear of death. Even the good side of the spectrum is connected to Batman in the form of Harvey Dent, a white soldier that has all heroics that Gotham needs, but that can't withstand the pressure. The Joker brings the fragility of all counterparts, including the Bat, being the psychotic villain with no logic behind the breakdown a city despite not being physically strong himself. 

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  The few critiques are more a matter of preference rather than outright flaws. The deepness of the plot can be exhausting by the end of the session, lacking the overall "fun" aspect of the movie (as it's not expected to be). This makes it so that you do wish The Dark Knight was a one-time experience, something to be remembered but not relived anytime soon.  

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  Nolan brings the big guns again. With his strong thematics, The Dakr Knight stands together with his legacy of masterpieces, worthy full 9.0 out of 10 stones.