Darkness & Light

The post is about a performance every one is talking about, "The Dark Kight".

What is it that makes it work?

Is it the magnificent performance of a dead actor. Or the brilliace of the narrative. Where there are no winners only losers. No light only night and no day at the end of the light.

Can some one hold the line against the night? Can the line be held until the light. We are conditioned to believe that, take comfort dear heart there is always light beyond the clouds. No matter how dark the day there is always light.

What do you do when darkness perceds darkness. night after night, hour after hour, minute after minute. All hope is lost, who do you look up to. where is the hope. where is salvation.

Hope and salvation lie in the hands of one man. Romans called him Ceasor. For gotham it is the Shining kinght batman (Anonomus) and Harvy Dent the Disrict Attorny. The most recognisable face in the city. On whose sholders the hopes of an entire city rests.

To answer the question," What is it that makes it work?"

What makes it work is the hope that Harvy will take the city back from the Mob, and give the city back to the citizens. Everyone, including Batman belives it. That he is the future and not Batman.

It is all the more, heartbreaking when this hope is shattered. Batman must sacrifice himself and his reputation to preserve the fiction that harvey was the rey of hope for the city and his loss is a loss of the city itself.

The price that batman pays is not one that he can pay out of his own free will. But it is one that he must pay. He must endure as he, is not one man but a symbol and an idea. Men die ideas don't.

That is what makes this film work.

No more no less.