'The Dark Knight' Film Review
What this film lacked was to exploit the genuinely fascinating, confronting psychological battle waging between the twin personalities of Bruce and Batman, and what little we were given was based more around the annoyance Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Rachel provides, than the heroic conflict of a divided soul. On the upside, Nolan will be hard pressed to surpass the Joker as a villain in the third film, so perhaps we’ll see a return to where the trilogy started: the extreme consequences of the murder of a small child’s parents. The best Batman comics and films (just look at ‘Batman Begins’) have always been based around the pain of a broken child that an adult Bruce Wayne has never been able to lay to rest.
Now, about Rachel. She’s mainly standing around telling our hero to give up the mask and she’ll come on over – but in the meantime, she setting up nest with Gotham’s shining new District Attorney, Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). Hence Batman wants Dent to be the gallant white knight of Gotham City, so that Bruce Wayne can lock up the bat cave and settle down, do families, that sort of thing. Selfish, manipulating woman, your ex boyfriend is Batman for goodness sake, cut him some slack! Show him some support, some admiration or at least a little respect. But when all she does is fix him with judgemental stares and rolling eyes, one has to wonder what the Dark Knight is actually brooding over in the first place. Bring on Talia al Guhl – or even Selina Kyle. With the outrageously talented Christopher Nolan at the helm, even Catwoman can’t be a dead property these days.
Now, about Rachel. She’s mainly standing around telling our hero to give up the mask and she’ll come on over – but in the meantime, she setting up nest with Gotham’s shining new District Attorney, Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart). Hence Batman wants Dent to be the gallant white knight of Gotham City, so that Bruce Wayne can lock up the bat cave and settle down, do families, that sort of thing. Selfish, manipulating woman, your ex boyfriend is Batman for goodness sake, cut him some slack! Show him some support, some admiration or at least a little respect. But when all she does is fix him with judgemental stares and rolling eyes, one has to wonder what the Dark Knight is actually brooding over in the first place. Bring on Talia al Guhl – or even Selina Kyle. With the outrageously talented Christopher Nolan at the helm, even Catwoman can’t be a dead property these days.
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