Movie Analysis Summative

The movie i picked was "The Dark Knight" because it's a movie that everyone is familiar to and is also a great movie with many examples of darkness. Batman is a man/hero that tries to eliminate evil and the darkness that is alive everyday in his city. This movie had so many aspects of darkness starting with the main villain, The Joker, who in my opinion made the movie. The way he acted and laughed made him look ruthless and demonic. The way he made Batman choose between people's deaths was the raw darkness that we were looking for. We think choosing between one person's death and another person's death would be one of the hardest things to do. The Joker would turn horrible events into a game. Another component that makes this movie the definition of darkness because most scenes are filmed at night adding an extra effect of death and darkness. Every decision the Joker made impacted me making me see The Joker as a man who really has no soul and is capable of doing anything. In the movie he is so demonic that he looks and acts like a man who should go to a mental facility. He would do things that a normal human wouldn't even think of doing because it was just savage and wrong. The trailer we chose shows what we are talking about and shows the examples we have written about perfectly. The EQ i have chosen is "What allows some individuals to take a stand against prejudice/oppression while others choose to participate in it?" I believe the difference between someone who takes part of it and one that stands up against it has to do with many different reasons. The people who usually get dragged into evil usually have nothing to lose or have gone through a terrible tragedy that makes them believe revenge is the only way out of their depression. For example Harvey in this movie, the man who was in love with Batman's Ex and also who was working with Batman to stop the Joker originally turns evil when his love is killed. By blaming Batman for her death he has someone to unleash his anger and sadness too vulnerable to the Joker's plans. Batman on the other hand has experienced a life of depression and believes that no one else should suffer the way he did so he fights crime to prevent that in anyones' life. I think to avoid being dragged into evil you have to be strong enough to avoid it and remain a good person. Another movie that affected me was the trailer for "the Road." The Road was the movie about the son and father travelling around a destructed Earth filled with wandering people avoiding the cannibals who survive by eating other humans. It impacted me because i can't even imagine eating a human it's just not imaginable to me. The different variety of darkness seen in these movies and life is just mind-boggling. I think the darkness can be avoided, but is also a part of everyone's life and you can't avoid it.

Thank you, Miguel Bustamante