There will be one movie at a time that everyone calls a life movie.

The content is interesting, the protagonist is the ideal type, or the directing is cool, so the criteria for selecting it as a life movie are also different.

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The biggest factor I pick as a life movie is "a movie that makes you think."

Movies that make you think by resonating the scenes and lines of the movie, as if it echoed after watching the movie, not afterwards.
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You may think of simple content, or you may think of actors' acting. However, most of all, I think the movie itself is what comes to mind.
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The meaning of the movie is of course important, but if you can enjoy and think about the movie by following the story of the movie itself, then such a movie can be called a life movie.
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For me, such a movie is "The Dark Knight."

Although I love the original hero movies and Christopher Nolan's films, the Dark Knight shows off that personal preference and the meaning of the original film very well.

For me, let's take a closer look at the best hero movie and life movie of this era, The Dark Knight.

Trailer

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Good and evil and coins

As you can see, the general structure of a hero movie is made up of conflict and confrontation between the two as a hero on the side of justice comes out and a villain, a villain who opposes it, comes out.

​Sometimes, to overturn this common story, we use characters like Deadpool or Venom, who are not like heroes even though they are heroes, and give villain an idea as if it were legitimate and add a three-dimensional effect.

​Nevertheless, from the perspective of the movie viewer, the hero is the axis of "good", while the villain is the axis of "evil".

We, trained in poetic justice, watch movies, hoping that the heroes on the side of justice will always win and defeat evil beings.

​The Dark Knight confuses the audience by incorporating a variety of devices into this common heroic competition.

The biggest of them can be seen as "Harvey Dent".

​'Harvey Dent' was like hope for Batman.

He was a symbol of Gotham’s justice in a way other than Batman’s way.

He was a man who was able to do even what Batman couldn't.

​However, the Joker corrupts Harvey, who is expected of Batman.

The Joker created Harvey's half face and half coin, creating a hidden half personality.

This means that the Joker is not just an evil, and Batman cannot be seen as pure justice either.

The two eventually quarreled over each other's convictions, and Harvey Dent, who was at the center of it.

​In order for Batman to win, Harvey had to remain a symbol of Gotham's justice, and the Joker had to corrupt it and create the confusion he wanted.

So who was the winner of this simple coin flip, not good and evil?

Cartoonish being

The characters of the Dark Knight express themselves as if they were real.

When I see a hero, I rarely get the feeling of "Oh, does that make sense?"

​Not only the Dark Knight, but also Batman Begins and Dark Knight Rise, the stories in the Dark Knight Trilogy and the conflict and agony of the characters are likely to exist in reality, so it feels closer.

But in such a story, a person who seems to be filming a one-person drama that goes beyond cartoons, which is too cartoon-like, appears, and everything in Gotham falls into confusion.

Yes, this is Heath Ledger's "Joker" you all know.

There are a total of four Jokers you might know.

Jack Nickelson's Joker, Heath Ledger's Joker, Jared Leto's Joker, and Joaquin Phoenix's Joker are all those who don't need a word with their acting skills.

I think Jack Nicholson is a cartoon, Heath Ledger is a philosophical, Jared Leto is a play, and Joaquin Phoenix is a psychological joker.

In fact, the Joker in the Dark Knight is believed to be the reincarnation of the fallen Kant. His ethics and morals are steel and unblemished.

What the Joker values most is confusion and uncertainty.

It is the Joker's conviction to make these uncertain and confusing things conclusive.

The beliefs themselves are very contradictory, but he is very upright. He've never been wrong.

His thoughts themselves are so cartoonish.

The life of the Joker, who has locked himself up and raised his life in that ideology, can be seen as a play itself.

The appearance of the Joker in the Dark Knight cannot exist in reality, and if it exists, it is unbelievable.

Batman faces such an existence and honestly has no choice but to suck his finger or solve his own shortcomings elsewhere.
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In the dark knight trilogy that takes place as a realistic hero, the Joker is the one who has surpassed imagination and has become the strongest in the worldview that has never been seen in the history of the movie.

How are you and me?

If you ask who is the winner of the Batman vs. Joker game and watch the Joker story be verbose, the winner will be the Joker.

Half right and half wrong

​Actually, as a match between the two, I think it is the Joker's victory. Well, I don't think there's room to refute this.

The moment of choice, Rachel and Gordon, Bruce Wayne and Batman, eventually Bruce Wayne was chosen.

At that moment, I don't think Batman had any way to win the Joker as the Dark Knight.

​However, the Joker eventually loses, even if the individual's match was won.

Defeated by citizens, neither Batman nor Harvey Dent.

The Joker's choices, steps, and plans were all perfect.

It's as if the Joker wrote a screenplay.

The only thing such Joker didn't do as he wanted was the bombing of the ship.

This part is like the catharsis of this movie, and the Dark Knight is different from other heroic movies.

As mentioned earlier, heroes are the center of the axis of goodness, and those who desire poetic justice want such heroes to win.

However, Batman, who thought it was the axis of the line in the Dark Knight, was completely defeated, and Harvey, the axis of the line that Batman was trying to establish, fell two-faced.

The Joker finally proved his philosophy by staining all the citizens of Gotham with evil.

In the match against Batman, he filled the half victory, so we tried to fill the other half.

However, the citizens won the Joker's match.

Anyone, me, any of you can be a hero.

No, rather, you can do great things that heroes can't do.

I don't think his conviction in steadfast confusion will ever come back.

After all of that

Batman saw the citizens' victory. He watched the victory of strong citizens.

That's why the moment Harvey's death would have been more heartbreaking.

He violated his conviction, the Belief not to kill, and also, Harvey Dentra, missed the axis that could possibly be the leader of the citizens.

So Batman chooses the best he can take. It remains the eternal Gotham Dark Knight.

In James Gordon's last line, he speaks through a conversation with his son. "He's a hero worthy of Gotham, but he doesn't need it right now" Conversely, there are moments when he needs it.

That is when a new axis of evil, axis of confusion, emerges.

Harvey eventually died, and now Harvey is a scarecrow.

In order to make the scarecrow Harvey shine, he had no choice but to enter the darker darkness himself.
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Wouldn't it be enough for you to shine? You might think, Will you be back later anyway?, but you can't.

Because he had already chosen Bruce Wayne the other day, not Batman.

He knew for himself. So he stays in a state that he can't. The Eternal Gotham's Dark Knight.

Final Review

It is a movie with a lot of things to think about and things to see.

Basically, if you take a look, once from Batman's point of view, once from Harvey's point of view, once from the Joker's point of view, it's new every time you see it.

Even though there are many philosophical elements, if you try to unravel the story and follow the flow, you can see myself in trouble and in conflict without knowing it.

To be honest, it's a movie where the conclusions change every time I watch it.

It can be seen as a movie with endless things to think about.

All three of the Dark Knight trilogy are fun, but I think the message and narrative contained in the Dark Knight are the best of the three.

How about you guys? What kind of judgment and what kind of conviction will you face in that space at that moment?

I think one of the ways to enjoy the movie is to answer the questions in the movie.

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