The Dark Knight: more than entertainment!

Rating: 10/10 (26 August 2008)

The Dark Knight, in my humble opinion, is nothing less than a masterpiece. But there are different colors for different tastes, but don't worry, I won't say "you are a fool if you didn't like it".
Why is this movie a masterpiece? Well, here we go.... Let's have something clear first: this movie is not about Batman, is about Gotham city. I live in a country intoxicated with corruption, and after all these years, well, let's say you can expect anything... But, recently, there's a new possible president, and, as the way everybody is seeing it, he will be our Harvey Dent... Let's just hope he won't have an accident involving gasoline and fire!...
Anyway... I think a movie is a masterpiece when it can portrait this things in a very actual and natural way (like Costa-Gavra's Z), how great cities are made of! when you know the basics in sociology, philosophy and psychology, you realize there's no good or evil, everything is relative. There is only one thing we can achieve: the greater good. But this is not something you can achieve in one day, is something you have to go a very long way just to have a glimpse. There are a lot of great movies and books that had portray this in a very faithful way. Like Goehte's Faust.
Between the lights and shades, you can see a great city sunk in corruption, drugs and misery, hoping for someone who can actually fight for their rights, making real justice. And as you saw in the movie, Harvey Dent, The white knight, is this person. Too bad he had the accident, but Hey! there's always irony in our universe.
You have to see and explore the dark so you can comprehend the light, and I think Nolan has always known this, and that is why I love all of his films.
At the end of the movie, neither Dent nor Batman can prove by their own means to be the hero Gotham wants, but needs. And they make this sacrifice for, as you know, the greater good... Glorious... I left the cinema with tears in my eyes... remembering a lot of sacrifices in real life, made by real heroes, that passed unnoticed, just for (here we go again) the greater good!
I expected more from the joker and less from the movie... at the end, I was amazed! The dark knight has the perfect measure, so every character is great and amazing! Don't get me wrong, I loved the joker, but with all the viral marketing WB released before the movie, I thought they would give more relevance to the joker than Batman or the movie itself, but gladly, they didn't.
What I loved the most? Above all, the script. It's great. The acting, the cinematography, the music, the direction... Everything!
I'm not saying this movie is perfect, but how can we, humans after all, describe perfection? Art is subjective, so for me, The Dark Knight is Perfect!