Director is the "true knight"

Rating: 10/10 (1 October 2011)

Until watching this movie,for me super hero movies were only a fantasy watch.From the web throwing spider man and bullet resisting super man,I only expected to take my mind off watching it so as to blithe my mind.I frankly have to accept the fact that,apart from other heroes I hated Batman the most!Maybe because the darkness in his movies acted as a very effective tranquilizer!Thus I made my first blunder-not watching Batman begins.When the trailers of Dark Knight were being aired in the theaters,never in my wildest dreams did I think of Heath Ledger---The CASANOVA guy and the guy trying to win Julia Styles in 10 Things I hate about you---in such an avatar!This inspired me to watch Dark Knight.Thus expecting some spooky super hero flick,watching it turned out to be a complete different experience all together!!Never I had imagined a batman movie taken in such a completely realistic sense.
Chris Nolan,director of this movie deserves a brilliant applause,not for directing just a chase between Batman(Christian Bale) and the Joker,but for showing how the real world and politics would react to turmoil set by the joker.Its like watching Alfred Hitchcock's thriller "Psycho"in a broader sense.The motel room and heroine in "psycho" is synonymous to batman and Gotham(sufferers) and Anthony Perkins the psycho is synonymous to the Joker.Another aspect of this movie which make itself a class apart form the rest of the super hero movies is how even batman's efforts to save-the-day does not make things right,but instead goes on piling disasters ,created by the joker, one above the other.Transformation of Harvey Dent to 2face(Aaron Echkart),death of Rachel Dawes(Maggie Gyllenhall) and the public--unable to stand the chaos set by the joker--start hating batman ,are some of the implications which are seen.Batman is made to squeal in a cage with the malevolent joker stamping him constantly.I felt that the film is taken partly taken in a Neo Noirish sense.This is due to the fact that the anti hero(joker) is glorified to a great extent compared to batman himself!!
The acting by everybody is good.But only Heath Ledger for his outstanding performance as Joker, sets your eyeball rolling.He is been shown as a psychopathic killer more than a comic villain.The scripting(Chris and John Nolan,David S Goyer) of the movie is truly the hero of the film .Every scene has been well thought over,but shown in a simple and an excellent way.This is also the first movie where the a brilliant script levels with equally brilliant action sequences(especially the truck toppling scene).So please see this movie not just for time pass,but watch it with for the intelligence of it.This is definitely not a comic batman movie,but it is a crusade between the good and the evil.Thus the director's the true knight for directing this breathtaking masterpiece which definitely will have an impact on many movie buffs!!