Guard Your Heart

I got to watch the Dark Knight movie on Wednesday. I really enjoyed the movie and I don’t mind going to watch another time at the theater. The movie was very long though, 2 hours and 20 minutes. However I enjoyed every second of it and believe me, I did. And for an advice, this movie is definitely not a movie a 10 year old will enjoy. They may think, “It’s Batman, wow! I want to see Batman!”. They will be disappointed. I feel that the story line is more for matured minds to understand and enjoy. And my oh my, The Joker is really scary. I love The Joker more than Batman honestly haha. The Joker’s acting is really good.

This movie is about this psychopathic villain named The Joker who goes around killing people and brainwashing them to join his cause. This villain is different, he is not after the money, he is out to prove that everyone can become corrupted. So he goes around trying to corrupt Batman but failed. However he managed to turn a city hero, Harvey Dent into a corrupted villain as well. How he does it is hard to comprehend though. The Joker is a good psychologist haha.

I am not trying to spoil the movie for you who haven’t watch it yet, so you can stop reading here if you want. I am just going to share about something I got out from the movie which applies to our daily lives as normal human.

Proverbs 4:23
Above all else, guard your hearts for it is the wellspring of life.

Thehuman heart can be the strongest part of the body and yet the weakest. The human heart can be bold, courageous, courteous, kind and yet it can be selfish, coward, bad and those of the like. There was one part in the movie where The Joker planted bombs in two ferries. One ferry was full with civilians and the other was full with criminals from prisons. They were escaping Gotham City before midnight because The Joker was planning to destroy the city. So they got into the two ferries and set out to another place. Moments later the ferries stopped moving. The Joker’s voice was heard through the speakers telling them that their ferries were full of bombs. Then The Joker gave them a choice. There was a detonator in each ferry. The ferry that presses the detonator first will be saved but the other one will blow up in pieces.

Everyone was panic. Ferry A wanted to press the detonator and bomb up Ferry B because Ferry B was full of “useless” people, they are the criminals from the prisons. Ferry B also wanted to press the detonator and bomb up Ferry A. There was a lot of commotion in both the ferries. The clocked ticked slowly. Like a ticking time bomb, each of them waited for someone to make the first move and stand up and go press the detonator. No one dared.

A prisoner from Ferry B took the detonator… He looked at it… And then threw it out of the window into the sea. Everyone went silent. He went back to his seat and sat down.

A man from Ferry A stood up and spoke to the crowd telling them that the prisoners in Ferry B should die. He took the detonator in his hand. Looked at it… And then he put it down again… and went back to his seat and sat quietly.

No one did anything to the detonators.

The clocked continued to tick. And at the strike of 12… silence……… There were no bombs going off in either ferries. No screams or yells. Everyone was saved.

You see, The Joker believes that everyone is a villain and the most righteous people will even turn wicked in times of desperation. He played this game with the two ferries trying to prove that. However he failed.
But he only won in one battle. He won trying to turn the Gotham district attorney who is hailed as Gotham's "White Knight", Harvey Dent into a villain.

How well do are you guarding your heart? The people in the two ferries were all nervous and all agreed to blow up each other at the beginning. Their hearts were selfish. They cared only about saving themselves. The civilians wanted to blow up the prisoners because they were just useless to the society. After all, they “deserve” to die. The prisoners, being already sinful, wanted to blow up the civilians as well. However at the end both parties sat down and did nothing.

Put yourself in that situation what will you do? Will you stand up and explain why the other party deserves to die or will you stand up and explain why we should not do anything. Jesus Freaks would probably stand up and start sharing the Gospel. The selfish ones would definitely start running after the detonator so they could blow up the other ferry. What will you do?

Harvey Dent was a righteous person who was looked up by everyone in the city. In the end he was corrupted by The Joker and turned into a villain and went around on a killing spree. Harvey did not guard his heart well.

The Bible says that out of our heart flows the wellspring of life. If our heart is pure, out of it comes pure spring water. If our heart is bad, out of it comes wickedness. I have seen many good people turned bad just because they did not guard their hearts well. Enticed with fame and wealth, people would willingly trade their pure heart for a wicked one.

The consequence of not guarding our heart is bad. You would not want to end up like The Joker would you?

I love The Joker's character, the late actor Heath Ledger's acting was really good.

Not so much of the main cahracter this time round haha.

Love your acting. Too bad you are not aroung anymore.