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That was a good character study

Posted by Jazz Inmate on August 12, 2010 at 15:51:49:
Dark Knight was more ambitious as a morality study. I thought the central character was not Wayne/Batman or Joker but actually Dent/Twoface, the district attorney. You saw how he really didn't have the spine to do what was needed to fight crime--though it appeared he did at first--and ended up becoming a criminal himself because of it.

Ledger's performance worked for me. He was more like Jeff Goldblum's "Fly" than Jack Nicholson's Joker clown. His goal of turning lawful citizens into criminals and murderers was interesting, making him a force of evil on a different level than your average action villain, and setting up the morality study to be quite deep, I thought. Ledger was brilliant. Bale and Eckhart were great too. The weak link was Gyllenhaal, but since she was killed it didn't really matter.

Prestige was Nolan's masterpiece. I've posted on it a lot and most people don't agree with my take. Another one that puts me at odds is that I didn't like Memento. I thought the story was boring and the nonlinear time was a cheap device to make an uninteresting movie seem more interesting on first viewing. Unlike Batman Begins, Prestige, TDK or Inception, there was no narrative or idea in Memento that grabbed me at all or made me want to watch it again.