After a really long gap...or should i say a writer's gap instead of a block..here i am writing. just got back after watching the 10.45pm showing of ' The dark Knight ' and trust me ...if you are a superhero fan...you got to see it...if you are a psychology major..you got to see this...if you are an acting student...you got to see this...if you are an art film buff...you got to see it....if you are an action movie fan...you got to see this....if you are a romantic person...go take your other half...and got to see it...hell..if you want to truely enjoy popcorn...you got to see it. Thats how exhillarated I felt coming out of the theatre. Christopher Nolan who made his name a part of my memory after his brilliant 'memento' has just pushed himself way up to the top of my best directors list...i daresay...even above steven speilberg.

The thing about superhero movies is that there is always this sense of disconnect from reality which always made one come back home and have dreams of being able to fly, or bash the bad guy, or be all powerful. Those were always going to be the kind of dreams you would most likely have. This move totally changes that paradigm. Rest assured when i was driving back home, the last thing i was thinking of was being batman. There are so many plots and subplots...so many layers to the dialogues....and the characters seem so close to reality that you tend to forget the 'fiction' premise of the characters.

The joker....enough has been said about Ledger's performance.....everything said is true....but the character that has been etched out and enacted gives you the goosebumps not because he does crazy and evil things...but because..somewhere you start to believe that there is no reason that such a person might not be sitting right amidst us and that creeps you out a lot more than anything else. What he says and does ...does not seem as something coming out of cinema...rather something coming out of life into cinema.

Batman...Bale.....you forget that in reality it would be ludicrous sight to see someone dressed as a bat and jumping off of rooftops...because when you are looking at the batman...you are not paying attention to the suit...but you are thinking about the character behind the suit. The suit could be regular cheap ass walmart made in china suit and it would not matter. Absolutely brilliant stuff.

And how two face becomes what he is....again..absolutely brilliant stuff. Its a superhero movie..so at the end....good has to triumph over evil...which does happen...then why do we not come out happy....why is there turmoil in thought ? You got to watch the movie. Suffice to say I would loooove to watch it a second time...but most likely I will not be able to do so...you see we are expecting our second kid and the due date is anytime now....so be it a girl or a boy...please make note..it was because of you...i did not watch the movie a second time. My daughter's room is currently based on a superman theme....the second one....guess which one is it going to be !!!