In the dark knight, joker is portrayed to the audience the way that batman is portrayed to criminals. What do we ever find out about the joker? Nearly nothing. He is a man with seemingly endless resources that arrived in Gotham, looked at the state of the city, decided that something must be done to change it, and so he offers his services to the criminals of the city. Not because he wants anything in return, but simply to send a message. We never know what his real name is, where he got those scars, where he goes or what he does when hes not wearing the makeup. This is almost exactly what batman is to the underworld. A man who arrived out of nowhere with all these gadgets and vehicles, who decided that he could change the way that Gotham was by doing the work that the police wouldnt do, and thus sending a message. And in the same way that the police turn on batman, and have to condemn his actions, the criminals of Gotham eventually sell out the joker. The two are presented as two sides of the same coin. This is hammered home by the fact that two face is in the movie, a character who uses the same coin to make decisions about good and evil. -Jamesmann53 Interesting plot line observation.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 21:16:05 +0000
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