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The Dark Knight (2008)

Directed by Christopher Nolan

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Overview

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

Rated PG-13 | Length 152 minutes

Actors

Christian Bale | Heath Ledger | Michael Caine | Gary Oldman | Aaron Eckhart | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Morgan Freeman | Nestor Carbonell | Monique Gabriela Curnen | Ron Dean | Chin Han | Eric Roberts | Ritchie Coster | Anthony Michael Hall | Keith Szarabajka | Joshua Harto | Melinda McGraw | Nathan Gamble | Michael Jai White | Colin McFarlane | Nydia Rodriguez Terracina | Tom Lister Jr. | William Fichtner | Cillian Murphy | Patrick Leahy | Matt Skiba | David Dastmalchian | Michael Vieau | Michael Stoyanov | William Smillie | Danny Goldring | Matthew O'Neill | Olumiji Olawumi | Greg Beam | Erik Hellman | Beatrice Rosen | Vincenzo Nicoli | Edison Chen | Andy Luther | James Farruggio | Tom McElroy | Will Zahrn | James Fierro | Sam Derence | Jennifer Knox | Patrick Clear | Sarah Jayne Dunn | Charles Venn | Winston G. Ellis | Sophia Hinshelwood | Keith Kupferer | Joseph Luis Caballero | Richard Dillane | Daryl Satcher | Chris Petschler | Aidan Feore | Philip Bulcock | Paul Birchard | Walter Lewis | Vincent Riotta | Nancy Crane | K. Todd Freeman | Matt Shallenberger | Michael Andrew Gorman | Lanny Lutz | Peter DeFaria | Matt Rippy | Andrew Bicknell | Ariyon Bakare | Doug Ballard | Helene Wilson | Tommy Campbell | Craig Heaney | Lorna Gayle | Lisa McAllister | Peter Brooke | Joshua Rollins | Dale Rivera | Matthew Leitch | Thomas Gaitsch | William Armstrong | Adam Kalesperis | Tristan Tait | Bronson Webb | David Ajala | Gertrude Kyles | Jonathan Ryland | James Scales | Nigel Carrington | Ian Pirie | Lateef Lovejoy | Grahame Edwards | Roger Monk | Ronan Summers | Wai Wong | Michael Corey Foster | Hannah Gunn | Jon Lee Brody | Debbi Burns | Maritza Cabrera | Shirin Caiola | Laura Chernicky | Henry Milton Chu | Kelli Clevenger | Richard Divizio | Tony Domino | David Fultz | Natalie Hallam | Jordon Hodges | Erron Jay | Nicky Katt | Thomas Kosik | Don Kress | Tim Krueger | Dan Latham | Tom McComas | James Mellor | Joseph Oliveira | Buster Reeves | Peter Rnic | Amit Shah | Michelle Shields | Sofiya Smirnova | Bruce Spielbauer | Robert Patrick Stern | Robert Stone | Richard Strobel | Tom Townsend | John Turk | John Warman | Chris Wilson | Kevin Zaideman | Rob Clark | Brandon Lambdin | Craig Braginsky | Mike Whyte | Tina Simmons | Rick Avery

Viewing History (seen 3 times)

Viewing Notes

I got a new Onkyo receiver and threw in The Dark Knight to test my setup. Of course, once I started watching, my youngest son, appeared from nowhere, and we just had to sit and watch the whole thing!

I’m a huge fan of this movie. Though I’ve heard criticism of the pacing and how it just seems to never end, those are the things that make it so brilliant to me.

It’s unrelenting in it’s mission to drive home the Joker’s chaos and anarchy. It’s the flip side of the existential coin that posits that our existence, and therefore our actions, have no meaning. The Joker’s reply to that is “well, if they’ve got no meaning, then why the hell NOT do some crazy bat shit stuff!” Indeed.

The film also gets at the greater role of Batman himself as a vigilante and what that means in terms of moral conduct and the codes he should live by, as well as the ones he can ignore.

A great deal of this movie is filmed in Chicago and it provides a great version of Gotham that’s much more gritty and compelling than the sci-fi monorailed Gotham of Batman Begins.

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