Jonathan Majors offers insights into THE DARK KNIGHT and how he shows ‘What it means to be human’

Jonathan Major he’s one hell of a talented actor who’s taken on some amazing roles! He has quickly become a fan favorite actor that audiences like. He has acted in such projects as Country of Lovecraft, Lokiand Devotion. It’s ready to appear in Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantum Mania and Creed III.

The actor recently wrote an essay for Variety about Christopher Nolan’S The dark Knight and his experience watching it. In the essay, he discusses how film shows audiences what it means to be human.

It’s pretty cool to have that kind of insight from another actor, and I appreciate his thoughts on the movie, which is one of my favorite Batman movies. Here’s what he shared:

Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight” is one of those rare films that entertains at the highest cinematic level while at the same time challenging its audience with every frame to reach a higher level in their personal and social knowledge, tantalizing our retinas with palettes of colors and patterns that prescribe meaning, and incites debate in our collective imagination and subconscious. Have you noticed how the eyes of both Christian Bale’s Batman and Ledger’s Joker are painted in a similar way, blackened with what looks like the love child of oil and coal, as if these two men, dissimilar as they may seem, have seen the same things and maybe see them the same way? This moral theme and argument prevails throughout the picture. What is right and what is wrong? My 18-year-old self sat in the cinema long after the credits rolled, awestruck by a beauty and complexity of humanity hitherto unknown in cinema and dare I say in my own existence.

They were the same. How was this possible? After all, one, Batman, is the “good guy” and the other, the Joker, the “bad guy”. What made them different is what they decided to do after seeing and dealing with a morally challenging Gotham, as ambiguous and fluid as the characters that populate its police force. All the actors embody their characters with such ease and relatability.

And the film asks what it means to be human, what it means to be alive and fully participate in one’s life. “The Dark Knight” so vividly engraves the agnostic morality of survival and the discipline of goodness. The second chapter of Nolan’s “Dark Knight” trilogy contains an impregnable truth: life and people are beautifully complicated and ever-changing. It is this fact that has allowed ‘The Dark Knight’ to stand up and stand out all these years later. In my many rewatches, it continues to demonstrate to me the agility of the human spirit. It shows, with perhaps one of the greatest rivalries of all time making our way to ‘celluloid’ – that of Bale’s Batman and Ledger’s Joker – that each stage of our lives is pushing us towards being the hero or the villain of our story. And that the few things that can truly guide us are our empathy and hope for a better tomorrow, with a stubborn faith in the goodness of ourselves, of others, and of our own personal Gotham. Follow the goodness. Believe in goodness.

Hell yes.