The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight
A Review by Ernest M. Whiteman III

The Pledge:
"You know, war paint. To scare people."

"I believe that what ever doesn’t kill you, simply makes you... stranger."

"Him, again."

"Ta-Da! It’s gone!"

"I know what you’re afraid of"

"Everybody knows, you’re Gotham’s White Knight."

"I hear they have another name for me at MCU."

"Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

"Starting tonight, people WILL die!"

"I knew the mob wouldn’t go down without a fight, but this is different."

"You know that day you told me about, when Gotham no longer needed Batman? It’s coming."

"He locked up half the criminals in Gotham and he did it without a mask."

"You can be the symbol of hope I can never be."

The Turn:
"We got you, you son of a bitch."

"Doesn’t it depress you, Commissioner, to know how alone you really are?"

"Stop trying to talk like you’re one of them, ‘cause you’re not."

"You’ve changed things, forever."

"Kill you? What would I do without you? You, complete me."

"They’ll drop you. At the first sign of trouble."

"You have nothing to threaten me with. Nothing to do with all your strength!"

" ...so you're gonna have to play my little game if you want to save one of them."

"Tonight you’re going to break your one rule!"

"I just want my phone call."

"I do have an answer for you and it’s ‘Yes’."

"No! Not me!"

"He wanted me to put him MCU."

"Remember that name they used to call me while I was at Internal Affairs?"

"Say it.... SAY IT!"

"Hi."

The Prestige:
"This city deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m going to give it to them."

"I let that psychopathic madman blow him half to Hell."

"That man in Burma, did you catch him?" "Yes." "How?" "We burned the forest down."

"Introduce a little chaos..."

"You know the thing about chaos? It’s fair."

"Tonight, you are all going to be part of a ‘social experiment’."

"You just couldn’t let me go could you?"

"I think you and I are destined to do this forever."

"You really didn’t think I’d lose the battle for the soul of Gotham City in a fistfight with you? You have to have an ace in the hole."

"You thought we could be decent men, in an indecent time!"

"Because you are the best of us."

"Then why am I the only one who lost the most?"

"You’re not."

"It’s not about what I want. It’s about what’s fair!"

"Lie, like I had to lie."

"Die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. I can do that."

"I’m what ever Gotham needs me to be."

"They’ll hunt you." "You"ll hunt me. You’ll condemn me. Set the dogs on me. Because that’s what needs to happen."

"Why is Batman running?" "Because we have to chase him."

"Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now...and so we'll hunt him, because he can take it. Because he's not a hero. He's a silent guardian, a watchful protector...a dark knight."

I have just seen the best picture of 2008. And it is The Dark Knight.
Highest recommendation.