The really really dark knight

Rating: 10/10 (20 July 2008)

The Dark Knight, while marketed as a comic book movie, is really a kind of modern Greek tragedy. Just like the second Tim Burton Batman Movie, it's as much about lonely, sad, and flawed people and how their flaws undo them.
Each of the main characters acts nobly but their fatal flaws are their undoing. Each of the characters (with one notable exception) manages to move farther away from happiness through their pursuit of their goals and obsessions. Without adding any spoilers, it's safe to say that this is not the feel good movie of the summer.
Christopher Nolan manages to reinvent Batman again for the post 9/11 world. It is impressive that the second movie in the series is so much different than the first. It would have been so easy to do another movie in the same ilk as Batman Begins. He managed to make a very different and darker movie that is as much about the characters losing the very thing they treasure most by their hubris and their heroism.