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Seen on: 07/19/2012, 01/28/2011

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The Dark Knight (2008)

Directed by Christopher Nolan

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Overview

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

Rated PG-13 | Length 152 minutes

Actors

Gary Oldman | Morgan Freeman | William Fichtner | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Heath Ledger | Anthony Michael Hall | Cillian Murphy | Christian Bale | Michael Caine | Aaron Eckhart | Tommy Lister | Ritchie Coster | Danny Goldring | Nathan Gamble | Nicky Katt | Edison Chen | Eric Roberts | Nestor Carbonell | Vincenzo Nicoli | Vincent Riotta | William Armstrong | Paul Birchard | Peter Rnic | Joshua Harto | Andrew Bicknell | Monique Gabriela Curnen | Ron Dean | Melinda McGraw | Michael Jai White | Bronson Webb | Matt Rippy | Tom Townsend | David Dastmalchian | Keith Szarabajka | Ian Pirie | Sofiya Smirnova | Richard Strobel | Beatrice Rosen | Chin Han | Jonathan Ryland | Tommy Campbell | Roger Monk | Chris Wilson | Colin McFarlane | Lisa McAllister | Matthew Leitch | K. Todd Freeman | Charles Venn | Tristan Tait | Richard Dillane | John Turk | Lorna Gayle | David Fultz | Don Kress | Grahame Edwards | Thomas Kosik | Debbi Burns | Tony Domino | Jordon Hodges | Patrick Leahy | David Ajala | Matt Skiba | Michael Vieau | Olumiji Olawumi | Michelle Shields | Tim Krueger | Peter Brooke | Erron Jay | Bruce Spielbauer | James Mellor | Lateef Lovejoy | Maritza Cabrera | Philip Bulcock | Richard Divizio | Ronan Summers | Jon Lee Brody | Shirin Caiola | Robert Patrick Stern | Kelli Clevenger | Winston G. Ellis | Michael Stoyanov | Laura Chernicky | Matthew O'Neill | Amit Shah | Robert Stone | John Warman | Craig Heaney | Sarah Jayne Dunn | Will Zahrn | Doug Ballard | Ariyon Bakare | Dan Latham | Keith Kupferer | William Smillie | Joseph Oliveira | Kevin Zaideman | Natalie Hallam | Thomas Gaitsch | Patrick Clear | Buster Reeves | Matt Shallenberger | Nydia Rodriguez Terracina | Sam Derence | Tom McComas | Henry Milton Chu | Wai Wong | Peter DeFaria | Nancy Crane | Nigel Carrington | Helene Wilson | Joshua Rollins | Joseph Luis Caballero | Walter Lewis | Craig Braginsky | Tom McElroy | Greg Beam | Erik Hellman | Andy Luther | James Farruggio | James Fierro | Jennifer Knox | Sophia Hinshelwood | Daryl Satcher | Chris Petschler | Aidan Feore | Lanny Lutz | Michael Andrew Gorman | Dale Rivera | Adam Kalesperis | Gertrude Kyles | James Scales | Michael Corey Foster | Hannah Gunn | Brandon Lambdin | Rob Clark | Tina Simmons | Mike Whyte

Viewing Notes

I got a new Onkyo receiver and threw in The Dark Knight to test my setup. Of course, once I started watching, my youngest son, appeared from nowhere, and we just had to sit and watch the whole thing!

I’m a huge fan of this movie. Though I’ve heard criticism of the pacing and how it just seems to never end, those are the things that make it so brilliant to me.

It’s unrelenting in it’s mission to drive home the Joker’s chaos and anarchy. It’s the flip side of the existential coin that posits that our existence, and therefore our actions, have no meaning. The Joker’s reply to that is “well, if they’ve got no meaning, then why the hell NOT do some crazy bat shit stuff!” Indeed.

The film also gets at the greater role of Batman himself as a vigilante and what that means in terms of moral conduct and the codes he should live by, as well as the ones he can ignore.

A great deal of this movie is filmed in Chicago and it provides a great version of Gotham that’s much more gritty and compelling than the sci-fi monorailed Gotham of Batman Begins.

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