The Dark Night

No, it isn't a typo. Rather, a rhetorical title to the theme employed throughout the movie itself. I saw it last Thursday on it's opening night here in the Philippines along with my 'aunt' and her entire sorority. It was... beautiful to say the least! Christian Bale's performance of the Bruce Wayne/Batman persona was near flawless as he pulled off a performance true to the comic book's description of the Batman himself. Commissioner Gordon was as usual impeccably flawed in all his righteous ways. The addittion of Aaron Eckhart playing the District Attorney/ Two-face was brilliant to say the least. For those who caught his performance of the articulate orator lobbyist in 'Thank You For Smoking', he elevates that charisma into pure mad-geniosity in the character he played. But in all honesty, the actor who stole the limelight even after his death was Heath Leder in his role as the Joker. I cannot stress how hideously beautiful was his performance! Brilliance only captures the essence of the understanding of the character when acted by the actor. Genius is only appropriate when the character itself is set apart from the intended persona. His performance was not only true to the psyche of the Joker, but it's as if every word, every move, every breath he took when acting the part just emanated the true persona that is the Joker. I'm ranting at a totally incoherent disorganized frenzy here but I swear and kid you not when I say, Heath's interpretation of the Joker somewhat induces and brings the term 'nervous laughter' to a higher level. In case you seem lost at this point, we all admittedly laugh at the most inappropriate act that conflicts with our understanding of what is right and wrong and eventually we tend to make it into a laughable matter. In this matter, it's as if Heath has somehow managed to release us from that nervousness and permit that laughter to be pure fun in the face of all that is inappropriate and taboo in our culture. I may speak only for myself but it's a hard fact to admit because we all feel this deep inside. I'm not villain but I am somewhat released from feeling repressed of that villainous person hidden inside.

We all have a little bad person in all of us... let what little of that person consume us throughout the 2 hours of the movie to better understand and appreciate what we cannot have.

On another note, the Phillipines isn't submerged underwater. We did not experience life-ending tremors. I'm talking about the 'earthquake prediction' by a 'brilliant' Brazillian teacher. Maybe he saw a vision of the Phillipine flag but it could have been just a replay of the quake that did hit the country... 20 years ago! Let it rest! I'm gonna send out an invite to all of you to come here for a vacation. I'll even skip classes to bring you around!


I'm gonna worship the evilness again tonight.

Hee hee hoo hoo haa haa!!!

p.s. Calvin's getting ink! Everyone slap him on his arm to congratulate his brave achievement!