The other day I was browsing my favorite local second-hand DVD store and happened upon a Blu-Ray copy of Baraka.
This was significant for two reasons.

The Dark Knight is an excellent film.  Christopher Nolan has essentially made a modern Godfather or Heat staring Batman and the Joker.  It is an intelligent film that doesn’t feel the need to spoon feed information to the audience.  It deals with complex issues:  Duality, justice, morality, terror.  All while being confident that the audience [...]