Why so serious?

It’s 3am. I just finished watching Dark Knight and I’ll post a review of it later, but I have two things to say.

1) Christopher Nolan is a Genius of a Director and Writer. He understands the comic book mythos. He is able to portray his art in a way I have seen in only a very few filmmakers.

2) If Heath Ledger does not get an Posthumus Oscar for this performance, I may never watch the Oscars again. It was true, he was the Joker. He encompassed all the attributes of the Joker. The Anarchy. The intelligence. I can see where people feel like this performance is what pushed him over the edge. I can see how. I have never so believed that an actor was the real deal until tonight.

And I’ll be going to see it again. And probably again after that. That is something that I haven’t said in years.

It’s just that good.