Well I finally got to see Dark Knight yesterday. I wanted to try and avoid the intial rush but the cinema was still absolutely packed and I can see why. 

I love the Dark Knight, absolutely loved it, but I found it was a hard movie to enjoy. From the moment it begins it's a constant assult on the senses. Like the Joker, it takes the 'rules' of the Summer Blockbuster and turns them on their head. Right away you know it's much darker than the first movie, and darker than summer movies, this is something completely differant.  No summer blockbuster shows lives being thrown away with such casual disreguard, and considering all the gun and knife crime that's been happening in England right now, it's a fitting if terrifiying reflection.

Everyone was amazing in it, but then you expect nothing else from the actors in this movie, but Christian Bale and Heath...they are incredable. I was really sad when I heard about Heath's death, but if an actor is going to be remembered by their last perfromance, what a way to go. Everyone always said Jack Nicholson's Joker was the best yadda yadda, but this Joker...to my mind Heath is the real Joker, the one I know from the Frank Miller novels, that made me fall in love with graphic novels. Nicholson's performance can't compare especially when he looks like a cartoon, Heath's joker is both realistic and completly out of this world. I don't think any other actor could have pulled it off. I wish so much Heath Ledger had lived to see the acclaim for this role. He shouldn't have died. My sister said something interesting, that it was as if the role had taken too much out of him, which when you watch him, you can understand. 

I don't believe Heath killed himself, I believe he got his sleeping pills mixed up, and speaking as someone who's had problems sleeping for years, believe me, I know it's very easy to do. I remember there were a lto fo raised eyebrows about heath getting the role, but I completly understand why Christopher Nolen chose Heath, he called Heath fearless, and you can see it in this role. The voice, the movements...once he's one screen you have difficult taking your eyes off him.

Like the best villians, I didn't hate the Joker, not matter how evil or demented he was, he was just to utterly mesmerising. Batman is scary, almost as unpredicatable as the Joker,. My mum said the film was approaching an epic and she was right, this isn't just a summer action movie, because the themes are so universal and more poitenet for right now. It's scary to think that sometimes the hero we need is almost a villian. Ironically the only people I came close to disliking as the 'villians' were the police in some scenes.

I do question if the film should've been a 12, I know why it was rated that but the violence was nasty, it's not graphic liek some movies but the film is harsh and doesn't pull any punches - no pun intended. I can't stand violence myself so I didn't watch the nasty bits. Yeah I'm sad like that. 

It also touches on some widsom that is very pertinant to our time. One particular phrase stands out to me: Because some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. 

How sadly and scarily true that is and now refresh to see a movie that entertains, scares and provokes thought. God knows we need more movies like this.