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RE: The Dark Knight...

Posted by Jazz Inmate on July 20, 2008 at 14:30:32:
I completely agree. A couple things in TDK did not work for me, most notably the new Katie Holmes. But the pacing and moral exploration were intense. Nolan is a gifted director to pull that off. He made character development such a driving force in Batman Begins that I thought TDK would be similarly driven. Wrong. Only Two Face had significant character development. What then drove TDK? Nothing but a morality lesson and good old fashioned action sequences and both were dizzying in their ferocity.
Did you catch the politics of the film? Batman chooses to purposefully damn himself in public opinion to do what's right for gotham city. He also develops an incredibly high tech surveillance program by tapping into the cell phones of every citizen to try to catch one man. Fantastic stuff and couldn't be more relevant to the dilemmas we face, even if it is just a superhero blockbuster.
And there were tons of incredible details, most of which went by so fast I didn't really have a chance to catch them. The symbol of the two-headed coin used by a villain is starting to become cliched after No Country for Old Men, but did you catch where Nolan used this exact same coin? The Prestige--another powerhouse of a film from Nolan/Bale.
Great sequel, as different from Batman Begins as can be.
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