Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The Dark Night


Base on the DC Comic character batman, Dark Night is a sequel of the 2005’s Batman Begins and part of Nola’s Batman film series. Christian Bale reprises the lead rule as Batman/Bruce Wayne.
The film was focused on Batman’s fight against a new villain, the Joker lead by Heath Ledger and his relationship with Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) a district attorney and his old friend and love interest assistant D. A Rachel Dawes (Maggie Gyllenhaal).
The film began with the Joker robbing a Mob (Mafia)- owned bank with his accomplices and tricked them into killing each other before he kill the last one for himself.
Three of Batman impersonators interrupt a meeting between mobsters and the Scarecrow that night. The real Batman suffers injury after he appears and apprehends the criminals and impostors, thus leads him to re-design his batsuit.
With Lieutenant James Gordon, they contemplate in their plan to eradicate the Mob including the new district attorney Harvey Dent as he could be the public hero Batman cannot be. Wayne discovers that the new D.A is dating Rachel Dawes while he was hosting a fundraiser for Dent.
During the meeting of the Mob bosses where they discuss about Batman, Gordon and Dent, Lau, a Chinese mobster accountant, informs them that he has hidden their money to pre-empt a plan Gordon has hatched to seized the mobster’s fund. The Joker arrives unexpectedly and offers them to kill Batman for half of their money but they refused.
The mobsters agree to hire the Joker after Batman successfully abducts Lau in Hong Kong and delivers him to the Gotham City police. Joker then told the Gotham that if Batman does not turn himself to the police and publicly revealed his identity, many people will die each day.
The judge who preside the Mob trials, some public officials’ including Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb are among murdered. Dent announcement that he is Batman stops Wayne plan of revealing his self who got arrested as part of the plan to draw the Joker out of hiding.
Batman and GHordon intervene on the Joker’s plan to ambush the police convoy carrying Dent and arrest him. Gordon was then appointed as Commissioner.
Batman interrogates the Joker at the police station who reveals that Dawes and Dent have been captured by corrupt police and was placed in a warehouse rigged with explosive on opposite side of the city.
Batman cannot save them both because they are far enough apart. While Gordon and the police head after dent, batman leaves to save Dawes. The Joker manages to escape with Lau through the help of the bomb planted in the station.
Batman was able to save Dent on his location on time but his left face is disfigured in the explosion. Dawes was killed as Gordon wasn’t able to come on time. Dent then was driven to madness over the loss of Dawes. He was freed by the Joker in the hospital who convinces him to exact revenge to Gordon and Batman and the corrupt cops and mobsters who is responsible for Dawes death.
Dent goes on a personal vendetta, comfronting the cops and mobster one by one, deciding their fates with the flip of a coin and call himself “Two Face”.
Lau was born by the Joker with his other half of the money. The Joker then announces to the public that anyone who is left in Gotham at nightfall will be subject to his rule.
All the bridge and tunnels out of the city where all close due to the bomb threat of the Joker. All the people are evacuated by the authorities using a ferry- one for the convicts and the other for the civilians. But the Joker place an explosive on the two ferries and tell all the passengers that the only way they could save themselves is to trigger the explosives to the other ferry or otherwise, he will destroy both at midnight.
As the passengers of both ferry decides not to destroy each other, Batman locates the Joker and prevents him from destroying the ferry. The Joker then acknowledge Batman as incorruptible but not Dent who’s madness has been unleashed upon the city.
He then proclaims that he and batman is destined to fight forever because batman could not kill him because his moral code will not allow him while he could not kill Batman because he is “too much fun” fighting with.
Joker was then captured by the Swat who arrives after batman leave to search for Dent. He found him in the remains of the building where Dawes died, holding Gordon and Gordon’s family at gunpoint.
Dent proceeds to judge all their innocence through coin tosses. He shoots batman in the abdomen and before he could determine the boy’s fate, Batman tackles him, both falls over the side of the building.
Batman and Gordon realize the loss of morale in the city would suffer if Dent’s acts of murder to become known as dent were lying motionless in the ground. After Batman decide to preserve Dent’s image by convincing Gordon to put the blame on Batman, Gordon then destroys the Bat- Signal and the manhunt for Batman ensues.

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