The Dark Knight Moral

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Jesse Beltran
Mr. Jason Higgins
ENGL – 1113 – 117
21 November 2014
The Dark Knight
The Dark Knight was the Batman movie we deserved... and the one that we needed at the time... AND it's a movie that we shall look up to for decades to come because it is truly one of the best comic book films of all time. Scratch that, it is truly one of the BEST MOVIES of all time. This time around the Caped Crusader (Christian Bale still) has been working well with Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) and Gotham City's new DA Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart) in locking up most of the city's major criminals, and overall making Gotham a safer place to live. However, their plans all go awry when a new insane criminal, the Joker (Heath Ledger), starts wreaking havoc in Gotham forcing Batman to go to great …show more content…

This theme is represented mainly near the end when (SPOILERS!) the Joker plants bombs on a ship full of regular citizens and a ship full of Gotham's convicts, but puts the triggers to the prisoners' bombs on the citizen boat and vice versa; thereby now putting the people of Gotham on the battlefield, pitting them to the supreme test. Some scenes when the Joker almost has Batman even go over the limit include both the Joker's attempted assassination of Harvey Dent and the interrogation scene-the latter of which happens to be my favorite scene in the entire movie. The interrogation scene between Bale's Batman and Ledger's Joker was mind blowing awesome. A true representation of Good vs Evil, these two legendary characters just merely talking had me captivated; especially because of Nolan and his brother Jonathan's outstanding screenplay, as well as Nolan's excellent direction. I don't think I've ever seen such a marvelous yet deadly interaction of characters in a comic book movie before

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