Phy
07-29-2008, 10:26 PM
http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2008-07-20.shtml
But setting aside the miraculous and the silly (this is a comic book movie, after all), what makes the film brilliant is, at heart, the writing. Director Christopher Nolan is credited as a writer, along with his brother Jonathan Nolan, with David S. Goyer getting a story-by credit as well.
The Nolan brothers have already proven themselves, with The Prestige, to have a gift for finding depth in the midst of sensational storytelling. But with Dark Knight, they bring to the fore some of the deepest moral dilemmas.
But setting aside the miraculous and the silly (this is a comic book movie, after all), what makes the film brilliant is, at heart, the writing. Director Christopher Nolan is credited as a writer, along with his brother Jonathan Nolan, with David S. Goyer getting a story-by credit as well.
The Nolan brothers have already proven themselves, with The Prestige, to have a gift for finding depth in the midst of sensational storytelling. But with Dark Knight, they bring to the fore some of the deepest moral dilemmas.