The role of drama is to transport the reader to another world 

A review about “The Dark Knight” 

By Cristiano Lima – English teacher, translator and theologian 

“The Dark Knight” is a movie with an intensively dramatic story about a rich playboy who wears a cape and a mask of a bat just to fight against criminals in the Gotham city. This movie is the continuation of the British director Christopher Nolan’s reinvention of the Batman story and it takes the story up to his primal confrontation with the Joker – the main, devilish and the cleverest villain in this movie. Christian Bale plays the role of Batman, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes over the role of Rachel Dawes and Heath Ledger plays the role of the Joker.Bruce Wayne is Batman – a multimillionaire and the main honor of the Wayne Enterprise Companies. As Batman, he tries to defeat the worst criminals of Gotham city. The Joker is the worst Batman’s nemesis and he is the worst and terrifying wrongdoer in the plot. All the characters are living in the city of Gotham. It is a cosmopolitan city that has been destroyed by corruption because of its political and financial system.The scenario of the movie is bleak, rainy and with the scenes happening, mainly, at night.People who watch films, which contain drama and adventures, will enjoy this film because this kind of production can give us a sensation that all the ordinary people can be a kind of hero trying to help people next to them. As Batman said in one of the most epic scenes of the movie: you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.From my point of view, I prefer to die as a hero!