Damsels in distress, villains and heroes are the stuff that most of you lived for when you were little.

Rating: 10/10 (16 March 2010)

Damsels in distress, villains and heroes are the stuff that most of you lived for when you were little. "The Dark Knight" offers all of these concepts to make one of the best movies based off of a comic book series that I have seen for a long time. Although it offers a lot of the things we look for in a movie when we are little this film is geared more toward the adult audience, showing a darker side to the batman series making the heroes more heroic and the villains more evil.
Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is in the business of keeping Gotham safe from anyone who cares to disrupt order and Joker (Heath Ledger) plans to do just that. As he states throughout the movie he wants to add chaos to Gotham and its batman's job to keep this from happening. While playing the role as a multimillion dollar CEO during the day and a vigilante fighting crime at night Bruce has his work cut out for him when faced with The Joker, Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) and later in the film Two-Face also played by Aaron Eckhart. Throughout the film Joker come up with numerous plans for the eventual destruction of Gotham and Bruce is there to meet the challenge head on.
As stated before this film takes on a darker role than most previous batman films and the director uses lighting to help portray this to the audience. With the use of mostly dark lighting the director helps to show the audience the dark side of the batman television series. "He is the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now" is a quote from the film that helps to define Bruce's character as batman. At this point in the film James Gordon (Gary Oldman) says this to help explain to his son that right now for the sake of Gotham batman needs to be the one reasonable for what has happened in Gotham, because Gotham doesn't need a hero they need a villain. Symbolizism is also used in this film just as it was throughout all the other batman movies. The spotlight that shines a bat (which is the symbol they use to shine into the sky to let them know that they need batman's help) is used to help symbolize that Gotham needs batman and rely on him to help keep order in Gotham and to help keep the citizens safe.
With all the chaos and disruption that the Joker has caused throughout Gotham batman proves to be up for the challenge and protects Gotham as he always has and always will.