Watched 'The Dark Knight' today with Stefe, Jackson, and my boy boy... The tickets were really cheap; $6 per person (student price which I didn't know it exists until today). The movie was nice, I like the way they focus on details.

*Warning Spoilers Below*

To start it off, the movie was named 'The Dark Knight' instead of 'Batman', which I think is more fitting to the movie, as the Batman only comes out at night, so hence, the dark knight... Lolx... That's very literal. I would say 'dark' connotes 'being kept in the dark', 'evil', 'corrupted', and 'never to be exposed'. Knight would obviously mean someone who protects. The title of the movie is a direct opposite to the cliche 'knight in shining armour', which fits the movie, especially the ending where Batman has to take up all the blame (of being evil and corrupted) but nevertheless he still protects the city like a savior nobody would ever recognize (even though they continue to hope to be saved by him when they are in trouble) as people are kept in the dark of what actually happened. People revere Batman but at the same time they feel intimidated, so 'Dark Knight' is an oxymoron?

A few themes run through the movie, I especially like the theme on Chance, which was brought out by the character of Harvey Dent a.ka. Two-Face. In the earlier part of the movie where Harvey Dent was still a good guy, the phrase 'I make my own chance' (or something of that sort) appeared twice. The when he turned bad, Batman pushed him down the building before he managed to kill James Gordon's son. The camera zoomed in to the coin flipping through the air and landed on its head, which means that James Gordon's son would not be kill, however, Harvey Dent was not given a chance to act upon the decision of fate. This seems to imply that we can't really make our own chances, and sometimes, we just cannot take chances. Cruel and true isn't it... How many of us are true risk-takers?

The more prominent theme of the movie would be the one on Order vs. Chaos. I like how the 'Joker' brings out idea of Chaos -- he told two different stories about how he got those scars to different people, and you don't know which one is true, and you don't need to know, cause the important part should be his '...why so serious?'

All in all, my interpretation of the whole movie would about how there's chaos in order (all the corruptions they have in the Police department) and order in chaos (how villains plan destructions, and how to bring order back). This idea is also manifested in how twisted Batman's fate is in face of the intertwinement of order and chaos.

Omg... This sounds like my literature essays... Lolx...

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