The Dark Knight Themes

The Batman has a pretty strong ethical code, and while he's doing what he has to do to protect Gotham City, he's not sure he likes having to break the law to do it. Harvey Dent looks much stronger,...

Superheroes can be meditative or even remorseful sometimes, but they don't get beat: not like Batman and his buddies do in The Dark Knight. Though they ultimately capture the Joker and keep Gotham...

"Rules and order" is a fancy way of saying "the law," a concept The Dark Knight just loves to push in all sorts of interesting directions. After all, Batman's a vigilante: breaking the laws he find...

Part of doing good means feeling obligated to do good: to set your personal wishes aside for the sake of someone else. In The Dark Knight, Bruce Wayne could easily just drop the whole thing and go...

It's Batman's thing, right? The hunt for justice and the ability to judge others for their crimes—it's what superheroes do. But in this case, he's got a whole cast of characters trying to do the...

Anytime you have a hero who wears a mask to do what he does, you're going to run into questions of identity. People in this film tend to wear their true faces in their disguises, from Batman's scow...