My Wish : Appreciate the wonder of possibilities of life. Change! Hoping to indulge in world's special moments and places one day. Travel around the world with friends and loved ones. Be emotional inspired. Experience the deepest emotionals. Optimism!

The Dark Knight (2008)

Just watched this show yesterday at PS with the Econ camp OG group. Each of us had turned down several invitations just to watch this movie together:)

Indeed, the movie was truly great as advertised. It is a swirl of intense action and wild emotions as Joker disrupt the almost peaceful and 'boring' life of Gotham's citizens into an unspeakable frenzy. Joker, through his psychotic and fearless killings had proved his point that ordinary citizens goes about their daily lives smoothly according and owing to plan and when insecurity and unpredictability engulfs rampantly, then everyone will sink into the deep oasis of chaos and self-destruction. Joker had turned back the time machine from eons of human progress-with the production of civilised, well-mannered beings whom we are proud of, into primitive, savaged murderers-who try to kill each other in order for self-survival, by bringing out our 'survival of the fittest' instinct simply through 'fear'. Is this a true depiction of all city dwellers? If this is true, then 'fear' will be the greatest weapon ever for terrorists to win against us innocent, peace-loving citizens at the end of the day.This is indeed an interesting psychological condition worthy of investigation:)

In fact, a parallel can be drawn from this movie with the acts of terrorism. Isn't Joker similar to our real-life suicide bombers whose desire to destruct the world overwhelms the value of their own lives? Both are blatant extremists whose love for mankind dim into oblivion.

Lastly, the most touching part is when Joker tries to proves that humans' nature is ugly like his when he plants numerous bombs in both ships-one containing innocent civilians and the other a whole gang of prisoners, and gives each ship the bomb starter of the other ship. The catch is this:If someone from one of the ship first press the bomb starter, then the other ship will blow up and the remaining ship will survive. However, if both ship refuses to press the starter within stipulated time, then both ship will blow up together when the time is up. Isn't this exactly like the economics's prisoners' dilemma model? Throughout the gruelling 10 mins scene, I almost thought that humans' ugliest side will definitely rear it's head at the face of death-a rather pessimistic thought. Eventually, both side wanted to live but would never take others' lives just so that they can preserve theirs. One of the prisoners even threw the starter into the sea so as to spare the excruciating pain of weighting ones' life against others'. I asked myself, "will I be as brave, courageous and noble just before the death knell finally sounds?"

Five stars for this movie and kudos to the whole cast:)

Labels: the dark knight