Heath Ledger as 'the Joker' was inspiring and stunning
I noticed that Scottish Tory Boy reviewed the recent Batman film on his blog, and after him and several others being particularly impressed by it I felt compelled to go and see it yesterday. I should probably apologise to Emma, Carla and Lara, me and Pies' good girlfriends who after our dinner got dragged to Batman without 'Angus, Thongs and Snogging' even being given so much as a consideration. (Lara also stated she was considering a career in social work, something which I promised her I would blog about and which I intend to do).
The part of Two- Face who only appeared late into the film and whose character sadly lay undeveloped, was clear symbolism of a character which lies within every one of us. The film's dark depth carried with it the undercurrent of the lives of the people who watched it. The film was centered around a man's fight for justice in a city ridden with criminals and poisoned by conspiracy. But when he loses the thing closest to him, he realises that he either must 'die a hero or live long enough to become the villain'.
For those of us involved in politics we often find ourselves in moral dilemmas along the path of what we can only believe to be social justice. Two- Face had a coin he tossed. Both sides heads, but one shiny and one dark and scarred. He judged people's fate by tossing the coin. A strange concept of which to decide whether a person should live or die within a civilised society, but for Two-Face it was real justice. He gave people the same chance that he had been given in his life. 50-50.
Although perhaps the biggest irony and the real Two-Face of the film is Heath Ledger, who plays the Joker with outstanding concentration and depth. Just weeks before he died he spoke in interviews of being physically exhausted due to the energies he put into the character. This forced him to take the medication which in the end killed him. An ironic situation in which the thing that made him most alive cost him his life, and further than that, the Joker was his shadow. He didn't look to others for his character of the Joker, but looked deep within himself. That was the beauty of his part, and the beauty of an absolutely stunning film.
The part of Two- Face who only appeared late into the film and whose character sadly lay undeveloped, was clear symbolism of a character which lies within every one of us. The film's dark depth carried with it the undercurrent of the lives of the people who watched it. The film was centered around a man's fight for justice in a city ridden with criminals and poisoned by conspiracy. But when he loses the thing closest to him, he realises that he either must 'die a hero or live long enough to become the villain'.
For those of us involved in politics we often find ourselves in moral dilemmas along the path of what we can only believe to be social justice. Two- Face had a coin he tossed. Both sides heads, but one shiny and one dark and scarred. He judged people's fate by tossing the coin. A strange concept of which to decide whether a person should live or die within a civilised society, but for Two-Face it was real justice. He gave people the same chance that he had been given in his life. 50-50.
Although perhaps the biggest irony and the real Two-Face of the film is Heath Ledger, who plays the Joker with outstanding concentration and depth. Just weeks before he died he spoke in interviews of being physically exhausted due to the energies he put into the character. This forced him to take the medication which in the end killed him. An ironic situation in which the thing that made him most alive cost him his life, and further than that, the Joker was his shadow. He didn't look to others for his character of the Joker, but looked deep within himself. That was the beauty of his part, and the beauty of an absolutely stunning film.
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