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 I accomplished one of my life goals when I stepped out of the metro station and was faced with the stony face of the Louvre. Since then I've accomplished another life goal; to see The Dark Knight. Now to those of you who read this and have no idea how huge this was for me let me explain a little bit: I have a crazy, unexplainable, irrational obsession with Batman. I don't have sheets and tapestries of him, no sir, but I do own every Batman movie ever made, and I do have a pillow and a new pillowcase, and I do own two graphic novels, and I did feel an immense amount of pleasure when I saw Heath Ledger cross for the first time in front of the camera. Nothing about that movie was wrong, they got everything exactly as it should have been done. And Heath Ledger's performance will earn him awards beyond the grave, they must grant him that. Never have I seen someone fall so far into a character before, and I've seen many a film. Ever since I was a child I had an attraction to Batman, I liked the chaos and shadow in his character, it reminded me of my own. I liked that he was a human and had chosen to become a hero. I liked that he was tormented and broken and was exactly the kind of man that I would like to become had I not been born a woman in reality. At the end of the movie Gary Oldman said something that completely broke my heart, "He's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs." 
I have this dreadful feeling in my stomach that the next Batman movie to come out is going to be the one where the government brings in their secret weapon to capture Batman. I've read that graphic novel and I know how it ends. I'd love to see Superman get his ass handed to him by Batman. And in the meantime, whilst we wait for the great battle, there are a plethora of fantastic movies coming out, one of which features Christian Bale. This is a good time to be alive.