The Dark Knight

In July 2020, I watched The Dark Knight on IMAX at Toho Cinemas Nagareyama Ootakanomori. The big entertaining blockbuster was released in 2008. 

I had watched it for the first time on TV when it was televised thanks to the movie Joker which would be released in October 2019. Although I had thought of it as not so good because it was based on Batman, an American comic, yet the action movie was so great that I came to desire to watch Joker and became interested in the lead, Christian Bale. I was also impressed that even Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman costarred with the other famous and popular actors. I of course planned to watch the great movie again on DVD, however, some movie theaters began to play it luckily on IMAX after the novel coronavirus pandemic was gradually settled. Then the viewers' reviews intrigued me very much, so I came to watch it on IMAX partly because I am kind of easily influenced. 

The pictures and sounds were fantastic. I spent a wonderful time. 

The story follows the battles between the villains with Joker and the police with Batman in the fictional Gotham City. 

Heath Ledger won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Joker. Although the movie Joker describes how a mentally ill man changes to Joker, yet Joker played by Ledger seemed to have completely been obsessed by craziness. I felt that Ledger was so possessed by the spirit of Joker that he passed away before the release. In other words, his acting was quite wonderful, which made me feel his death that way. 

I, however, got kind of tired due to the absence of a healing character like Benji in Mission: Impossible and C-3PO in Star Wars. Although it was certainly a great entertaining movie, yet I want to watch a movie with a smile. Then the big bike driven by Batman reminded me of Kaneda's bike in Akira, which I watched on IMAX the other day. I then felt that Kaneda's were far cooler than Batman's. Moreover, every time Christian Bale's face was closed up, I remembered that Ford vs Ferrari and I felt like watching the drama movie more than the Batman movie. Besides, after watching it, I felt that I might should have watched one of four Studio Ghibli movies instead as a Japanese. Those Japanese films as well as the American film have been rerun since the settlement of the novel coronavirus pandemic as if they try to relax and heal the people. All the same, the entertaining movie is definitely comparable with the Mission: Impossible movies and the Star Wars ones.