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It isn’t often I write a blog, and even less often I talk about movies. I have always loved watching movies about superheroes, and Batman has been one of the favorites.

Christopher Nolan did a great job with Batman Begins showing us how the Dark Knight got his start. What separates these two films from the all the previous Batman installments is the focus on storytelling. I would classify this as an action packed drama in the form of a comic. The films, semi-non-linear chronology kind of resembles the feeling of a comic book. When you look at a comic, you are most likely seeing two or three different frames at the same time–seeing different parts of the story unfold. The way the movie was cut was similar, scenes were often overlapped with each other adding to the suspense and making the 2 hour plus movie breeze by.

In the Dark Knight, we see the developing stages of the main characters in this comic series– The Joker’s assent into the ranks of Gotham’s super villains, Harvey Dent’s fall from grace and transformation into Two Face, and Batman finally embracing his roll as Gotham’s Dark Knight. I loved the dynamic between Joker and Batman throughout the movie. As Joker points out they are both outcasts, The cops are to Batman what the Mob is to Joker. Joker has no allegiance, he wants to show the world that everything is corruptable. Batman wants to show the world that there is good in the world. In a way they are both right.

Maggie Gyllenhall. Is this too short of a paragraph? I just wanted to mention her cuz she was a great part of the movie. Not a real character from the comics i think but played an important part in charcter development.

I could see this movie three times. Oh yah thats right, I did.

Ok, that is my first official movie review. GO SEE IT.