What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?

A must watch Batman movie for all of the caped crusaders fans. By far, personally, the best Batman movie ever made.

"What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object"? This is one of the last dialogues that The Joker delivers to The Batman. This one question is answered through the movie. How incorruptible the Batman is as the immovable object and the destructive force that is The Joker.

The face of The Joker, his little annoyance when the hospital does not blow to the ground, many might see this as just a little prank of The Joker, while it actually gives in a lot into his psychological state.

The story line of the movie is pretty simple. You have The Joker who wants total control of Gotham city, The Batman, who wants to save the city from him, you have Harvey Dent (Two face, later) who believes that Batman can save them all, and you have the public who are divided in their opinions about the Batman, whether he is a savior or a vigilante who needs to be punished.

Long story short, The Joker gets the local mobs to help him kill Batman so that they can get their money and carry on with their business and The Joker starts killing innocent people one by one asking the Batman to remove his mask and expose himself. But before Bruce Wayne exposes himself, Harvey Dent proclaims that he is the Batman and gives himself up to the police. The Joker tries to kill him during transit when The Batman and Commissioner Gordon save him and capture the Joker.
The Joker manages to kidnap Harvey and Rachel (who Harvey is to marry and Bruce also dated previously) and taunts Gordon and Batman. Batman manages to get information as to where they are held and hurries to save Rachel while Grodon goes to save Harvey. But the Joker had switched the places and Batman ends up saving Harvey but Gordon fails in his attempts to save Rachel.
Harvey, who is now disfigured blames Gordon for not trusting him earlier when he had told that many inside the police force were corrupt and blames him for the death of Rachel and his current state. The joker meanwhile announces that he is going on a rampage and everyone who is alive by nightfall is under his "rule". He visits Harvey and corrupts his mind before blowing up the hospital in which Harvey is being treated. But Harvey is allowed to escape before that. Harvey goes about the city killing everyone who he feels is involved deciding their fate by tossing his coin evolving as the Two Face. He kidnaps Gordons family and holds them hostage in the building where Rachel was killed.
Batman ends up fighting all of The Jokers goons and the SWAT team of the police who have mistaken the hostages for The Jokers accomplices and finally ends up hanging The Joker upside down outside a building. The Joker then lets the Batman know that Harvey is still alive but that he, The Joker, has managed to "warp" him. Batman hurries to save Gordon and in the process kills Harvey.
Batman and Gordon decide to blame Batman for the killings so that The Joker does not win and the faith people had in Harvey does not wither away. Gordon reluctantly agrees and sets up a manhunt against the Batman while breaking the Batman beacon that's always been on top of his building.

THAT was not as short as i thought it would be. :-)

The action sequences are great. Batpod (Batmans new motorcycle) is phenomenal. The chase sequence where The Joker attempts to kill Harvey assuming he is the Batman is well made. Batman has an oportunity to kill The Joker at that point but does not do so. Even during the end of the movie the Batman does not kill the Joker. On this the Joker comments "you will not kill me, coz u can not and I will not kill you coz then there is no fun" and adds on the title of this page.

Christopher Nolan has given us some wonderful movies, Insomnia(Al Pacino and Robin Williams), Batman Begins (Christian Bale, Liam Neeson), Memento(Guy Pearce), The Prestiege(Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale). There are others that I have not watched. Memento is more well known for us as Ghajini(Surya).

Cast
Christian Bale - The Batman, Bruce Wayne
Heath Ledge - The Joker
Aaron Eckhart - Harvey Dent/Two Face
Gary Oldman - Commissioner James Gordon
Michael Caine - Alfred Pennyworth, Bruce's trusted butler
Morgan Freeman - Lucius Fox, who supplies Bruce with all the gear that Batman needs

Using ScribeFire

I am well in the way of becoming a hard-core FireFox fan. Just saw this entry on ScribeFire and had to test it immediately. No relation to the blog though. Seems pretty neat to install and use.

Michael Clayton

Watched Michael Clayton over the weekend. The movie starts off in the present where we see Clayton (George Clooney) at a poker table where another player talks to him about the restaurant that he was running along with his partner and what happened to that. We hear his phone ringing and he steps out in the middle of the game.

He is asked by one of the partners in the law firm where he works to go and meet a client of the law firm who was involved in a hit and run case. This is where we understand that he is the "fixer" in the law firm, often adopting out of the way methods to get things done for the clients. On his way back he stops his car to have a look at some horses on top of small hill and his car explodes then. He runs to his car and drops his watch, wallet and other personal stuff in to the burning car and runs away. The scene then cuts to 4 days earlier. Things then start falling in to place.

The story revolves around Clayton and people he meet, their actions and his reactions. With his financial life in a mess, Clayton is asked to get another top litigation specialist, Archer, back to the office. During a client meeting, Archer strips naked and starts blabbering. He is under custody when Clayton meets up with him and starts behaving funny. Clayton figures out that Archer has not been having his medication. With promise from Archer that he will continue medication he prepares to bring him back to NYC. Archer escapes from Clayton and runs away.

The third important character in the movie is Tilda Swinton. She has been appointed newly as a director and wants to prove her worth to the organisation (U-North). At this juncture we understand that Archer has incriminating evidence against U-North that they have wilfully used carcinogenic agri products that are very harmful to humans. Instead of defending U-North in the class action suite that is going on, Archer starts collecting evidence against U-North. When Tilda gets to know this while going through Archers bags, she is terribly upset. She hires 2 professionals to handle the situation. They tap Archers room and install bugs in his apartment. Archer in the meanwhile in trying to get one girl from another city to testify against U-North. Tilda has Archer killed and has everyone fooled that it was a suicide or accidental death due to medication. Clayton however gets a receipt of a copy store and gets hold of the evidence that Archer has and calls up the girl, Anna. He understands that Archer had asked her to come to NYC. Clayton suspects foul play.

This is when the scene cuts to the scene in the poker table and the subsequent car explosion, which is again triggered by Tilda once she understands that Clayton now has the evidence. Clayton gets to know that U-North is going for a settlement and that Tilda is the one who is orchestrating this. He confronts Tilda with murdering Archer and trying to get him killed. Tilda initially refuses but when Clayton informs her that he still has the evidence and that there are 1000 copies of the same ready to be distributed she gets a little jittery. And in her haste she accepts to the offer from Clayton to remain silent if she pays a sum of 10 million to him.

The moment she accepts to his offer verbally, we hear Clayton say " You are fucked. You are so fucked" and slowly pull out his mobile phone that he used to record and relay the conversation to police officials. We see Clayton walking down and handing over the phone to his brother-in-law, a cop and in the background we see Tilda sitting down covering her face understanding the enormity of the situation.