The Dark (K)night

I am not a Hollywood buff,rather i can avoid Hollywood movies at any cost and any time.I blame them for the themes they come up with for making movies,which i can't relate to. Every other movie has someone attacking earth (most of the cases aliens), then there is some supernatural act in play or there is some weird creature who has inhabitated planet earth and is going to destroy it.Then there are vampires and werewolves who are habitats of earth and are fighting with each other for some or the other reason!!No doubt the movies are excellent technologically and are very logical.There are movies like transporter,Die hard etc which are just so much taxing to watch. Harry potter series is a serious blunder as far as the book is concerned, they just couldn't get the gist in three hour.But then you would question as to why soo many of them have i seen...the reason is simple...I HAVE TO!! cos as a part of my commitment to A we decided to indulge in each other's intreset,so if he can take salsa classes with me, i have to go back and watch all the underworld series with him!!I can narrate the history of vampires and the story of the underworld.

I had to accompany A to a movie on his fave Batman. I never read Batman comics as a kid.Those comic strips were too gross for me.But movie i had to see...the Dark Knight! So far so good! When i see a Hollywood flick i expect it to be logical (unlike bollywood movies) and can be explained.So this batman movie i expected to be completely logical! As the movie started playing i had my doubts (considering that movie was a box office success)!The Joker really bemused me.I didnt understand him.Why was he doing what he was! Burning heap of notes,blowing up the hospital, bombing the police station, poisoning the mind of the twin face...why...just for the heck of it.Then the batman, why didnt he kill Joker,when he could have? Why doesn't he save his love intrest?

My colleague in D worships Batman, i actually happen to discuss the movie with him and i did question him. He explained me why Batman doesn't kill Joker and how he missed saving his love interest...sounded valid...

Still missing was erratic behaviour of Joker...but the day i switched on the television on the 27th of November and saw those people firing at the innocent, the first thing that came to my mind was Joker...no demands, no grudges...just plain killing and destruction.

So if the Joker exists...the Batman also should!?