Reviews

Joker was a ticking time bomb waiting to explode in pop cultures face. So is the character Arthur played by Joaquin, an explosion made by time and pressure of/by/in the society which couldn't bother if someone was dying on the streets or starving without food. A society which will ridicule the isolated for being isolated and laugh and call him/her a clown for not achieving anything. What follows when one man stands up against the hypocrisy and injustice is anarchy and as we all know joker is a symbol of chaos. The film definitely hits the right nerve in the audience who would notice the relevance of the themes and concerns put forth to our current period and it may affect the wrong person..but the film doesn't end with the creation of joker but the birth of Batman. Chaos is not left to be celebrated but to remind us why we need order. The film is poetic in every sense though it falls slightly under to call itself a masterpiece. Joaquin Phoenix is a Master of his craft and a spectacular sight to see. On par with Ledger.

I'm glad i watched it without knowing anything about it. I thought the film was going to be an art house coming of age romance until the boys walked into school geared up in camo carrying 2 bags of heavy artillery.

Gus van sant takes us through the daily life of a few students in a school Within a day, we see what emotional experiences they have to face everyday. These are long shots following the characters from point A to B and again from a different perspective when seen through other characters crossing their path. The sequences are structured simple and eloquently which makes it a very immersive experience.

Now coming to the core of the film, the story and the message makes the film a very important topic of discussion. As we dwell alone in those corridors getting to know the kids it makes enough time for us to experience the actual terror of what's about to come. Because we're not just knowing the kids but literally following them, walking with them and sitting down with them. The natural isolation of existence we feel in our lives between action is allowed for us in this film. To walk in those corridors, to be there, felt too real. The setting became very much temporarily habitable. That is good direction. So all this is well prepared for us and finally when the shooters come in we feel the terror like no other film made. The message, we see bullying and shaming and authoritarianism all affecting the growing minds of the kids. In the end the shooter says to the principal to listen to the kids when they come in to complain about bullying and other things that might affect their life. And also how easy it is to get guns in America? The ridiculousness of the gun culture can't be shown more rawly. Wtf? The kid just ordered and the fedex guy just wanted a signature and bam.

What I like the most about this film is that it has achieved binding the entire mythology that's been built in the previous films in the series. From resurrecting our memories of characters and tying up their ends with more information of how the new characters are connected with the old. But most importantly "who is Batman?"

In Batman begins a terrorist organization wants to completely annihilate Gotham city because of how corrupted Gotham is, with its mob bosses and corrupted corporations and government. In the dark knight we see the people and the authority of Gotham facing a villain who's only goal seems to be proving the madness within us and destabilizing or exposing order as a lie. The ultimate goal was to see the people turn against each other, A fall of civilization through mass hysteria and paranoia. Throughout the series we see a similar theme- a socio/ political reason for the destruction of society. The dark knight rises presents itself with a temporary actualization of what the previous films were warning us. Unlike the joker who wanted this by making the people go at each other, bane does it by military invasion and a more stable vision. A vision not born of madness but one of ideal and hate. All these villains have one thing in common, they were all unaccepted and in return didn't accept. Every film tests Batman and his ideals. In rises we see him truly broken and literally rising from a metaphorical hell. The one bane calls home. Every good story is adventurous and every good adventure story has something to reveal about the protagonist - a search for identity. In some films the identity search becomes the central theme, and a conscious effort by the characters. In Batman, Wayne seems to be quite clear of who he is though he always carries an air of mystery about him. True we know his secret cosplay shenanigans but the drama and obstacles that happens around him and his response to them reveals to us more about who he is at the core. A film shouldn't be interpreted so much but the dark knight films are very inviting. I think in the final chapter Batman completely dies. The entire pit climbing(the metaphorical yet literal hell)sequence is purely Bruce Wayne. Every last beat of his heart beats for Gotham and Wayne makes the jump like the child. At that very moment, he's reborn. And like an innocent child would trust a snake, the first thing Wayne does is trust someone who betrayed him. And by death Batman becomes immortalized - a statue is built

The first time I saw this film I thought "well lazy writing of how a case is solved through chance". I watched it again. The brilliance of this film is in its realistic take on chance, and the presentation of the film and the godlevel acting of the actors. Two characters, jake a detective and hugh jackman a father who's sworn to protect his family from the cruel world, now has lost his daughter. Jake and Hugh discover clues on their individual quest which could solve the case logically if they work together and know what each other found, but Hugh is a rogue detective, a father. Even though they don't work their clues together , but because of each other's actions affecting where they're supposed to be at the right time they are led to the ultimate ending of this beautiful film.