http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/dark_knight_triple_feature_review The best and latest movie news, reviews, features and editorials - updated daily Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:20:20 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/dark_knight_triple_feature_review#comment-2533 malevolentmuse Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:11:54 +0000 http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/news/?p=9948#comment-2533 What I love about The Dark Knight, and I've seen it twice myself already (once in 35mm, another in stunning IMAX) is ultimately it's an alagory on human nature. An examination of the power of fear to push people to desperate measures even if it mean derstroying their moral compass in the process. It's a movie asking more questions than it gives answers -- how do you fight the darkness without falling into it yourself; where do heroics end and evil begins; where is that final line which must not be crossed -- but does so in a way where you don't feel preached to or bludgeoned. Chris Nolan, who has slowly climbed up the latter from promising filmmaker to icon, has given us his masterpiece. If ever there was a action / comic book / superhero movie achieving the perfect storm necessary to crash Oscar's party it is The Dark Knight. What I love about The Dark Knight, and I've seen it twice myself already (once in 35mm, another in stunning IMAX) is ultimately it's an alagory on human nature. An examination of the power of fear to push people to desperate measures even if it mean derstroying their moral compass in the process. It's a movie asking more questions than it gives answers — how do you fight the darkness without falling into it yourself; where do heroics end and evil begins; where is that final line which must not be crossed — but does so in a way where you don't feel preached to or bludgeoned. Chris Nolan, who has slowly climbed up the latter from promising filmmaker to icon, has given us his masterpiece. If ever there was a action / comic book / superhero movie achieving the perfect storm necessary to crash Oscar's party it is The Dark Knight.

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