The Dark Knight

Journal 2

The Dark knight is the second film of the batman: the dark knight trilogy. This is my favorite movie of all the time and I will talk about some Dark Romanticism aspects. This movie I think covers one of the principal characteristics of this genre, that men are evil by nature. Sometimes in the movies they present the protagonist and the antagonist and show their past, show why they are how they are; The main villain in the movie is the Joker, in this movie they do not show why the Joker is how he is. What this is making all the spectators think, is that he is pure evil, he just wants to watch the world burn. The movie takes action in a fictional dark city called Gotham City, this is where all the Batman’s adventures takes place, this city is mentioned as a “decaying society”, and is full of crime and corruption. Here is where I found another characteristic of Dark Romanticism, the setting being described as a dystopia. The characters in this movie are full of hate, even batman who is the good guy in this movie. Now talking about the Batman, what he tries to do the whole movie is end up with the Joker’s chaos and anarchy and save everyone, it seems to be easy, but he has may obstacles in his way making him fail over and over again. As I said, he is just trying to save his city, but sometimes the people in his city don’t help him to help them, and not even the Police Department, here is the same characteristic of men being evil by nature. This seems like people from Gotham don’t want to be saved and this surely drags Batman down. Another obstacle he has is the Joker’s intelligence, that sometimes seemed to be over his, a good example is when he killed Batman’s love. The Joker in this movie is trying to prove a point, which is that even the best man of all can fall and be trash like him. He showed it when he converted the Mayor candidate that all the city loved into one of Batman’s villains, Two-Face. The Joker tried to show it with Batman by making him break his one and only rule, No-Killing. The joker failed in his attempt and ended up going to prison for all the chaos and anarchy he created in Gotham.