My favorite movie ever!

Rating: 10/10 (28 August 2018)

This is my favorite movie. It's not even that close, actually.
Before watching TDK, I watched movies and that was it. It was fun or it wasn't. I wasn't (and probably Im not, necessarily) a comic book fan.
And then that trailer went up (on TV?) and I just got hyped by the new Joker interpretation. Not because I was already a fan, but because it was taking a cool concept that I knew (like Nicholson's Joker) and make it REAL.
It was obvious that the Joker was a metaphor for terrorists and it became obvious that Batman would be the USA in this "metaphor". But I never expected the movie to go as DEEP into this allegories and EXCEED them.
The movie not only talked about post 9-11 USA and the "fight against terror". Yeah, that's just the most important and obvious layer.
Then you have the literal interpretation: the amazingly fun and intricate (yeah yeah, with a few plot holes) Heist movie.
But a third layer (that I'm aware of, at least) it's the more comicbooky one. The representation of the fight between opposites. Amoral/Chaos vs. Human search for order. Tons of movies have philosophy but this one takes its time to make it compelling, clear, and fun without losing the focus of the other, more grounded layers (symbolic fight vs terror and heist action movie).
I have watched this movie, from start to finish without skipping one second, at least 15 times, and I would watch it again sooner or later.
Only two things bugged me (on probably the 10 or 12 re-watch):
-The School Bus breaks to huge Bank entrance but it's in perfect state when it is aligns itself into the others. Totally done for the cool factor, I would've preferred a less destructive version, with the Buss being parked in front of the bank instead of breaking the bank's gate.
-The other is Two-Faces shooting the driver in the car... while he's still there. Again, done for the (admittedly GREAT) cool factor.
But in a 2.30+ hrs movie, those are nitpicks. So yeah, the best ever for me!