Dark unsettling, disturbing here are some words that can be used to describe the second installment of Batman directed by Christopher Nolan.
Nolan may not have a very extensive film but it certainly can trace his films explore concerns about some normal mental states. He did in the memorable Memento (horribly translated as Amnesia ) which deals with the tribulations of a man who has lost his memory getting immediate, thanks to the device used in the narration of history, we live the same situation as the protagonist. It is also insomnia, less good, but that allowed us to see a Robin Williams completely psychotic. With Batman Begins
Nolan showed he was determined to rescue the man bat after the latest movies on it, colorful, silly, confusing and boring (except, of course those of Tim Burton)
Much has been made in numerous review the special character of this superhero whose first feature does not possess any special power. None of radioactive radiation, interplanetary shipping Batman is an ordinary man who decided one day to train for combat evil. Well, I lie, not a common man is a man carrying a deep pain and sadness, watched helplessly the killing of his parents and grew alone in a huge mansion. Within it discusses various passions, feelings: JUSTICE thirst and longing for revenge, redemption and finding hope of punishment. Contradictory, passionate perhaps the most difficult was finding an actor who could convey the force, darkness and contradictions of this character. Nolan sought out Christian Bale was starring in his curriculum American psycho (what else). Batman Begins
aa again remind us that here was the most complex and human superhero and Gothic town could be any large city where the mafia, corruption and lawlessness have been the order to succeed.
The second installment takes a step further, if the first spoke on the path of formation of a hero, the principles governing the way, the encounter with his inner pain and the creation of the Batman (condensation of the deepest fears Bruce Wayne) will fight on for justice, the second shows us that we have a society where heroes are no longer sufficient. But I'm getting ahead.
The Dark Knight picks up where its predecessor ended. The bad guys of Gotham City begins to feel uncomfortable by the presence of Batman, certain foundations of criminal organizations stumble but beware, this does not say the worst has passed, however, for two hours Nolan we take you through the dark passageways of evil. That place where darkness reigns and no longer care about money or power only "to burn things." And there, with the match on the joker can only be embodied brilliantly by Heath Ledger. Evil, sinister how to read social product that mocks himself, the pain of all? Smart, shrewd, does not even have the basic instinct of survival because they want and seek the death he is elusive (which ironically will be realized with Heath Ledger).
The counterpart of this figure of evil is Harvey Dent, the embattled prosecutor who is willing to do justice to the cost of your own life and ready, he began the descent into the underworld, for breaking any basic scheme Nolan superhero is ready to surprise us and let go into the abyss. At the end is a glimmer of hope, even in the most unexpected places we can find a little light, kindness, concern for others ... but that's the end, we have been scared before in our chairs for more than two hours wondering if this really is a dark moment that will precede a dawn light (as stated by the prosecutor) and not the depths of the night, from the macabre have invaded everything.
reflections raised by the film can be very complex: we have a society that no longer needs heroes but martyrs (willing to drag the faults of others, determined not to get endorsement and work in darkness), we have a society that is necessary to lie, conceal as well as we should do those we love, sometimes, because the truth is not always the road. We witness the struggle of a man in his quest to quench his sorrow ended up creating a symbol that surpassed himself, something that can not leave, which has its own life and his life needs to survive.
I aterrra a bit that the film was rated as PG-12 when, perhaps naively, I really think you can be highly disruptive.
No doubt the joker (so well done, so seductive) will become an antihero perhaps because these beings asocales emulate, often anarchic always captivating ... (scary this too).
Anyway, thinking exclusively in the superhero movie seems to me that Nolan has taken this genre to unexpected instances ... What comes after this?
(Note deserves that bring so few copies that Cinemark subtitles and Atlantis (or what I write down the reasons for doing so) are allowed to cut the credits as if that was not a fundamental part of the movie.)
Review published in www.ochoymedio.info
