There has been a lot of talk about this movie and how great piece of action cinema it is. Well, I definitely disagree. With the exception of Heath Ledger and his Joker the film is a rather tedious journey through an ultra heroic figure who is here to take the blame for everything. Batman is been pictured like this godly figure who has no flaws, who is willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of the people and who is beyond any personal interest. The ending monologue of commissioner Gordon proves that the movie has a deep and profoundly shallow plastic morality to offer. The typical Hollywood action "God hero" who is above all and who is here simply to save us no matter the cost. This is so fucking cliché that even a ten year old child could write such a character. Batman is a freak he is not the good Samaritan ready to take the blame for all humanity. Batman lives in the shadows, Batman is a creature of the night. The way Batman was pictured in this movie destroys the whole myth. Destroys the very essence of Batman. But this is not the only moment where the Hollywood "ultra touching" and catastrophically mellow agenda appears in the movie. The film is filled with morality lessons and cheap emotions. And that destroys everything in that movie. What if it is exquisitely shot, what if there is that neo-noir element, strong and proud in that movie. Everything there was to be said is already said. The film doesn't leave anything to imagination. Everything is so deeply explained and pictured that you feel that you are been served baby food. There is no mystery in that movie, there is no atmosphere in that film. There is no sign of that thing that movies should have and that is leave something for the audience to figure out. Leave emotions plainly there without fucking explaining everything like we are some kind of imbecile. The Dark Knight is a movie that aims for the banal, the known, the one that we have seen a million times, the one that lacks ingenuity, the one that lacks passion. The Dark Knight is the movie that proves that Hollywood is still producing cheap passion and cheap thrills in order to put us in a state of enthusiasm. The Dark Knight is the example of a movie that should have been panned for its character and morality issues. The Dark Knight is another version of the invincible hero that we all hate and despise.
Christopher Nolan is a man of great talent there is no doubt about that but this time he messed it up big time. The screenplay of that film is something like the history of Jesus in the superhero film context. And we certainly don't need another Jesus. One is already more than enough to handle. The Dark Knight is a movie that aims poorly. It's a film that offers poor intellectual background. It's a movie that can be explained in one sentence. God against evil. And we don't need, we are fucking fed up with godly heroes. We don't need any more invincible characters. We don't need any more cheap lessons for our morality. We don't need another superhero figure who would be America's golden child during the Cold War. We are fed up with these things. We need brains from a movie. We need real characters, with real and vibrant issues and drawbacks. The Dark Knight is intellectually one of the worst movies to appear, one of the shallowest films to appear and one of those movies that are aiming for the good and conservative American who will go to the movies Saturday night with all his family and the Monday morning will go to the Republicans' convention. So he can take that movie and shove it where he pleases most. We have no need for him. We are over with him. He smells of dinosaur.
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