Saturday, July 19, 2008

Dark World...Blurring the lines of morality

This afternoon Brock and I went to see Dark Night with Laura. (I wont give anything away for those of you who haven't seen it!)

I had an observations to make on this movie:

It seems our society is trying to blur the lines of morality. Movies try and portray the "bad" or "evil" characters to be "good" and vice versa. To confuse us what is really bad and wrong with what is truly good and pure. While in this Batman movie, Batman is trying to save Gothem City right? But the citizens of Gothem City believe him to be bad and want him to turn himself in. At the end of the movie he claims that he will be whatever Gothem needs him to be, even if that is to pin murders on. But if he is a superhero, why should he take the blame for something he did not do? And why would he want to give into the evils of the city if he is to be a GOOD hero?

I really did like this movie. It had me on the edge of my seat the entire time. The Joker was very real and convincing. It made you think that even tho this was from a comic book, its not far off from where we are today and our society. The Joker gave sooooo many real like scenarios that could really happen  and puts you in between  rock and a hard place. 


1 comment:

Shawn and Laura said...

Thanks for letting me tag along with you guys, I had fun.

I always had the question of morality when I watch Star Wars.

We should have movie night up at the cabin.