The Dark Knight: A decision support

Rating: 1/10 (17 September 2008)

I already wrote a review on "The Dark Knight", being full of anger and antipathy for that movie. But now I realized, that the best thing to do is: Help others to make a decision whether that praised film will awesomely entertain or simply shock them. I'll forbear from spoilers.
"The Dark Knight" wasn't the movie I expected. I thought it would be like "Batman begins" where people had motives for deeds and still surprising moments. Where Batman was a troubled character finding his way back to psychological stability, dealing with obstacles and fighting hard never to corrupt his morals. It wasn't. Considered soberly "The Dark Knight" was a complete surprise. It said: "The journey's not over and it will not end, where you expect it to end." Moreover, and that's also announced in the movie, the main villain has no motives. He's simply evil, loves to hurt and corrupt people and is, differently to what he proclaims, not a chaotic person, but an organizing and planning genius, almost (or I believe definitely) able to foresee the future.
And here's the lack of the film: The Joker is unbeatable. Whatever Batman and the police try, the cannot defeat him. He's like a mythological god of chaos (owed to the writers), corrupting people with (I have to admit) known, but corrupting dilemma situations. And that's quite hard to bear. If you're a sensitive person, you'll sit there and suffer. If you're sensitive and intellectual, you'll simply understand that movie as a nightmare. And you should take that literally, because if you are, it's an unpleasant, annoying or even fierce situation, with  what you call  "logic" taken away.
So if you're wondering whether to watch and you're a person like me, who believes that a movie either has to be realistic or if fiction has to contribute to giving you a good feeling or being a better person or something like that, DO NOT watch that movie. You will go out and have to deal with a serious quarrel about these (I believe fake) "teachings" you saw in that movie.
For all the others, please take my advice. I have to admit that I am maybe a bit too sweet-tempered or something, but please don't take that movie too serious. In movies (the too positive ones) I often caught myself believing what happened there without reflecting. Please DO NOT do that here. It's a negative movie, destroying the super hero legend, having been established in "Batman Begins", surrendering to the believe that anyone can be corrupted and will be corrupted unless they die first.
Thanks for reading.