Hello ladies and gentlemen.....it's time for a movie review!!! I take care to warn you, however, that if you haven't seen The Dark Knight, then you may want to stop reading at the spoiler alert and go see the movie. Then, you can come back!!! With that said, here we........go!!To start with, I thought the movie was fantastic. It was the best I've seen in a long time. Heath Ledger did an amazing job playing Batman's lengendary nemisis, The Joker. I saw his performance and said, " Jack Nicholson, eat your heart out." I highly recommend this movie to everyone EXCEPT small children. Yes, I know it's Batman and the little ones want to see, but seriously, this movie is very dark and very violent. The Joker isn't what most people are used to. He is, I think, portrayed in the correct manner: an EXTREMELY demented psycopath who can turn the city upside down with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. This version of The Joker my scare the little ones. Nevertheless, I give this movie five stars, two thumbs up, or whatever else can be taken to mean that I think highly of this movie.
**SPOILER ALERT**
Now, for the real reason I wrote this. There was a line in the movie that really stuck with me, so much so that I had to share it with all of you. Toward the end of the movie, Batman has subdued the Joker. As Batman stands before Joker, watching him dangle in midair, Joker delivers this line: "I now know what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. I think we're destined to do this forever." This sets Joker and Batman up as rivals. However, a philosophy can be taken from this line.
You see, the real result of Joker's line is chaos. The force has no where to go because the object will not move. There is conflict. How many time could we have been that object, stopping some opposing force that threatened us. Oh sure, it's easier to just let things happen. But, what if?? What if we just stood against all that opposes us, and refuse to yield?? If you oppose abortion, what are you doing to stop it?? That's just one of the many evils that you can stand against. Because the real lesson is, the force stops when something refuses to get out of it's way.
Jesus was, and is, our immovable object. Sin and death were really unstoppable, but then He died and was resurrected. It was through His ultimate sacrifice that He is now our immovable object. He now would have us become like Him. He dealt with the evils in His time and refused to stand down. We MUST do the same. He wants us to. He has equipped us to become an immovable object. We are equipped that we may stand when the day of evil comes (Eph 6:11).
As I said in my last post, things are changing. Some, for the worse. Yet, though change is constant, so is our God. He doesn't want us to conform (Rom. 12:2), but instead, stand against the "unstoppable forces" in our world.
Jesus did it, and so should we.
Are you an immovable object???
