Holy Crap Dark Knight

i saw dark knight this afternoon and holy crap, it was amazing.

spoilers below, so if you're going to watch it stop reading



i seriously jumped about 3 feet into the air when the fake batman hit the window. i hate it in movies where they just WHAM throw something or whatever.

and i practically cried when gordon "died." i love his character and they showed him, looking like he was dead, and my friends and i all looked at each other like "wtf did they just do!" but then when he came back i got this look on my face that probably looked like i saw rupert grint. (lol, gary oldman plays gordon in batman and sirius in the hp movies, so if i had been watching the right movie, i would have seen gary and rupert at the same time... which has nothing to do with batman, but does have something to do with harry potter and rupert, which are two things that i get quite fangirly about.)

heath ledger did BRILLIANTLY. i got chills, almost. the joker was so freaky and heath did an excellent job of portraying him. definitely deserves a posthumous oscar. i started paying attention ot all of the acting, and i really think heath did the best job. that'd be such a character to play- a deranged physcopath that has this sudden to urge to kill everybody.

the directing was also fantasic. it gave you that feeling that superhero movies are supposed to- that kind of weird mix of danger and anticipation and power slipping. i love it!

my absolute favorite thing about it was how it turned to focus on human nature. when they had the two ships, both with the detonator for the other one, i was freaking out. i wasn't at all surprised that some bitches were so ready to kill the other people if it meant that they could live. i absoletly loved it when the guy got up and tried to set off the bomb on the ship with the prisoners, but then started shaking and couldn't do it. and when the prisoner got up and made that speech and took the detonator, and i really thought he was going to set it off, but then he threw it out the window. yes! that's really when you find out someone's character- when they're faced with a life or death situation (the joker said something about this, but he's a creeper and enjoyed it when they turned out to be cowards) and i hope, i really, really hope beyond hope, that people can remember to be good when faced in such situations. it's so disturbing that some where so willing to just kill others so that they could live. that's their true colors. i wish that it had surprised me. i wish that i had more faith in humanity than i do. but the guy throwing it out the window did put soem more faith in there.

and the thing about dying the hero, or living long enough to see yourself become the villian. that was so good. that kind of focuses on human nature, too. you can either die when things are better, or you push through that to the very end, where all hell breaks loose, and that's when your villianous side comes out.



ok, spoilers done now. but if oyu haven't seen it yet, you have to.