Stereotypes In The Dark Knight

Morals are lessons that are derived from an individual’s upbringing, beliefs or standards. I created The Dark Knight to encourage viewers to explore and question the values and ideas that are held by society. Unlike many other supernatural movies this movie has no hero, the Joker can be recognised as a psychopath in society; in this film he is a character with a passion to cause chaos. He has nothing else to do but cause chaos, he lives for the games he plays, and essentially this is similar to a psychopath as they too like to stimulate fear, grab the government’s attention through harassment, threats or embarrassment causing them to become helpless and appear oppressive. Batman along with Harvey Dent and Rachel are characters that try to

Some of these “good” characters change their viewpoint and some don’t, the characters represent the body of society as people can easily change their perceptions based on experience. To further the audience’s insight into the concerns these aspects are represented through elements of cinematography.

Perceptions are developed based on an individual’s social and personal concept of right or wrong, point of view shots establish the scene through the eyes of the character. In several scenes Batman’s point of view is used to show his perspective on the action. The mood exuded is suspense through this cinematic technique, I challenged the audience to believe that the Joker was about to get hit by Batman and through the rising tension audience members are able to feel the anger that Batman holds towards the Joker but, as you know he chooses not to hit the Joker, which then leaves the audience confused (Scene 22-24). Though Batman is given the opportunity to kill the Joker he instead decided to stand for his core values which are justice and morality. Batman acknowledges and respects that he does not hold the power to kill and through this scene it is also