Jul

18

Dark is the Knight

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I’m a movie fan. I love those rare movies that really make you think, that put you in the position of the character who has to make impossible choices. I especially love those very rare movies that present the unexpected third choice. The Dark Knight is one of those movies.

I went to the midnight showing of The Dark Knight tonight with my daughter and 5 of her friends from her Sunday school class. I’m their teacher. I was expecting to see a good movie. But I wasn’t quite expecting it to surpass Batman Begins by such a large margin.

I won’t pretend to be a movie critic by giving the good and bad technical points of the film. Instead, I am encouraging you to go see it because of its message: the right thing is often the hard thing, but sometimes, it may appear to everyone else like the wrong thing. Do it anyways.

There is another underlying message to America that couldn’t be more timely: giving up in the face of terrorism puts the terrorists in the ruler’s chair. Unless you would prefer to be ruled by terrorists, the fight is always worth it.

The film deals in ultimate questions and impossible choices. At one point the answer to one of those impossible questions is perfectly answered by a very unlikely character. The film also inspires you to ask yourself what kind of person you would be, given the same situation.

I won’t spoil it for you by giving details. The movie was long, but satisfyingly so. The kids from Sunday school class had some points of criticism, but all said without reservation that they loved it.

If you just want to be entertained, go see it. If you want something to think about, go see it. If you want to change your life, go see it–I think it has enough depth that it might just be able to do that, too.

I think you’ll love it.