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The Dark Knight
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Here’s why this movie rocks:
- Joker. Absolutely phenomenal performance by Heath Ledger. The guy is convincingly creepy, sicko, amusing, seducing, philosophical. When he’s on the screen he totally shadows everybody else, including Batman. I remember an old Batman where he was played by Jack Nickolson with a plastic mask on his face. That was so lame… this guy actually looks and feels like somebody took a knife and made him those scars. Sadly, Heath is now dead.
- Batman is indeed the Dark Knight, “an outcast, making choices nobody else can make”. Eg he chooses to first save the only bright light in the city fighting against crime, his ex-girlfriend’s may-be husband, over her.
- Harvey Dent. I’ve had the feeling from the beginning that he’s going to turn into a villain. How he falls is a big story withing the movie.
- It’s directed by Chris Nolan, who made Memento.
- Batmobile is so badass that it makes a black Lamborghini look like a cheap joke.
- There is no Robin.
The Big Sleep
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The Big Sleep is a classic noir movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauran Bacall based on the eponymous novel. Comparing to what we see in the cinema today, it may even appear too complex and overwhelming to some. But that’s what’s so good about this movie – sharp dialog, lots of details in each scene. I quickly stopped guessing about the plot and let take me on a ride.
Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he’s seen murders, blackmail, and what might be love.
If that sounds interesting to you, then…
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
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I have never heard about this one before. Turns out it is a brilliant noir science fiction movie, reissued last year on its 25th anniversary. Based on a novel called Do androids dream of electric sheep?, it is directed by Ridley Scott and stars Harrison Ford as a replicant hunter in the dusk of humanity. It took a while for the story to get me interested but it was the dark scenery, rich details and a photographic quality of almost every moment shot which tell this complex story better, at the same time asking questions about the future which we’re creating, that got me hooked from the beginning.
