Misleading review of the Dark Knight
What can the new Batman say that previous movies of the serie have not already? Can it bring something new?
Oh, well, pretty much like Obama claims, yes, it can! The stunts, the gadgets, the franchise, they’re all there, but this Batman is new not because it is the latest, but because it plays with the simplistic preconception of the positive classic action hero. The line is not blurred, I’d say it is challenged. Yes, you will tell me this has been done before, it’s the whole spiel of the schizo double faced heroes, it’s the quintessence of a hero that needs a mask. Even the title is chosen as a result, the dark knight as opposed to the white knight.
But hear me out here. This Batman is more appealing to me because it left me wondering. Before this Batman we knew exactly the good and bad role plays and how they were cast among the protagonists. But during this entire movie I have now felt like I was never sure. The good guys turn bad sooner or later, for one reason or another, and the true good guy has to pretend otherwise. So bottom line nobody IS the good guy.
The not so simplist line of bad and good, or bad against good, might not be so easy to digest by the public, but it is definitely an educated trendsetting choice. If the producers bet with this one against Hollywood, they might just win.
And Heath Ledger’s “Hello” in the red wig will make history.
