“Why So Serious?”

The Joker, dripping with greasy clown paint and played with a disturbing vigor by the late Heath Ledger, asks this question with dark sarcasm as he accuses an entire city of being moral hypocrites. Ledger’s performance highlights one of the best movies of 2008.

The question is, does this accuser stand correct in his assessment of humanity, or do the people scrambling to stop him in the name of justice, order, control, or power amidst the rest of the film satisfy the viewer in proving him wrong? 

As our church heads into a seven month sermon series entitled “Trial“, it’s curious that this film juxtaposes a District Attorney striving for justice while an anarchist lunatic decides to put the town on a trial of his own.

Join us for Film and Theology on January 23rd as we watch The Dark Knight, examining afterward the motivations of characters like Harvey Dent, James Gordon, and Bruce Wayne.

Maybe we’ll see why the Joker finds it all so funny…