The Joker Deserves His Own Freaking Movie

Mood: beautifully pissed off.
Currently listening to: amsterdam, anberlin.

So i watched The Dark Knight last night, and majority of my reaction can be summarized in a sentence.

The Joker deserves his own movie.

grabe. i was half-expecting old batsy to succumb to joker at many parts in the cinema. a large part of me(specifically the logical side) kept on dismissing this; batsy always wins. but there was still this tiny part that kept on praising the joker's genius.

one of the most touching parts of the movie was when the joker implanted bombs in two different ships; one laden with innocent civilians, the other loaded with prisoners. the joker cuts of all communication, threatens to kill all who attempt to escape and as a final tease, gives the two ships bomb remotes. press the button, and the other ship becomes fish food. he gives them until midnight to decide. in the event that no one presses the button, he will blow both.

so aun. at first glance, the choice is obvious - save the innocents, kill the prisoners. the camera even pans the inside of the ship and one can see the civilian-laden one full with women, children and old people.

but when the camera pans the inside of the prisoners', one can't help but see them not as prisoners, but as people. you could almost guess, and at the same freaking time, be at a loss as to what they're gonna do. will they press the button as expected of a criminal? or will they opt to atone for their sins?

of course, you can't just say blow up the civilians. they're innocent little turds, who just happened to get stuck in a ship with a joker bomb.

in the end, both parties decide not to blow up the shit out of the other ship.(pun intended). they decide to be killed, instead of being the one doing the killing.

but of course the batman doesn't let the joker win. in the end, he even takes up all of two face's killings as his own, and he is now hunted by gotham city, the very people he had chosen to protect.

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