I finally managed to see The Dark Knight yesterday. I’ll admit that I was pretty tired and didn’t quite catch how everything fit together, so I’ll wait for the DVD in order to fairly assess the film. My present opinion, however, is that, while I personally loved Batman Begins, The Dark Knight is superior in almost every way. Seeing Eric Roberts in it was just icing on the cake!

Aaron Eckhart isn’t getting enough praise as Harvey Dent, in my opinion, but that’s due mostly to Heath Ledger’s fantastic portrayal of the Joker overshadowing everything else in the film. The Joker has always been a great Trickster figure, but here he really is the perfect embodiment of the archetype, with all its confusing contradictions. The goal here is to blur the distinctions between “good” and “evil” by introducing sheer chaos—brilliant stuff.

The highlight, however, was when a woman brought a full shopping trolley into the cinema about 20 minutes into the film. What kind of socially-retarded misfit even considers doing that???

The next film I want to see: Tropic Thunder.