A dark night for the Dark knight

The dark knight is an action film released on 2008, from the American director Chirstopher Nolan based on the popular franchise from DC comics “Batman”. The film is starred by Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne, the alter-ego of Batman, Heath Ledger as The Joker, and Aaron Eckhart as Harvey Dent.  The others members of the cast are Michael Caine as the loyal butler Alfred, Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes, Gary Oldman as Lt. Jim Gordon and Morgan Freeman as Lucius Fox.

The film is the second part of a trilogy that offers a new and mature look over the classic Batman series, giving a deeper psychological background to all the characters.

Batman is a multimillionaire businessman that has lost his parents when he was a child. They were killed by a third-rate thief outside of a theater. This fact conduces the young Bruce Wayne to use all his money and technology to fight against crime.

On the film, his historical arch-enemy of the comic series, “The joker”, a cold blood and pretty ingenious criminal, appears as a new and unexpected menace, causing much chaos on Gotham City. Batman gets forced to use all his intellectual abilities to trace The Joker, but when he finally finds him, he discovers that The joker is not like any other enemy. The joker represents all his fears and, in order to put end to his menace, Batman has to cross his only rule, not killing.  

This is my favorite film because the character of “The joker” caused me a deep impression when I saw him on the cinema, it was terrifying. The interpretation of Heath Ledger seems more like an incarnation, in fact, Ledger was found death by overdose of painkillers before the film was released, because he developed a severe depression after get involved on the role. I think that the psychotic personality of The Joker and his deep antihuman philosophy cause a severe impact on Ledger who was an actor whit no formation on acting, so he was unable to get rid of such a heavy role. Ledger is the first real victim of The Joker.