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To be able to bring us back to "The Dark Knight" (TDK) 13 years after its premiere shows the tremendous appeal of the film directed by Christopher Nolan. The film is set in Gotham City, where gangs and drug dealers are rampant and Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne Batman continues to fight criminals in a mysterious way. With the help of the "Dark Knight" Batman, Gotham City Sheriff Gordon captures all the mob bosses, while Gotham City Attorney General and "Light Knight" Harvey Dent, acted by Aaron Eckhart, try to bring them all to justice. The evidence is overwhelming. It seems that the gangsters and drug dealers are destined to live in prison, and it seems that peace can finally be restored to Gotham City. Just then, the Clown, acted by Heath Ledger (Heath Ledger), appears. He is sinister and cunning, no bottom line, and no dogma in his heart.

The Clown unites the surrounding gangs for the reason of killing Batman, leading them and the schizophrenics he recruits to kill at will, thus putting pressure on the citizens and forcing Batman to take off his mask and reveal his true identity. This is only the surface context of the film. The core context of the film is that the Clown constantly stimulates Harvey Dent and Batman, the two "incarnations of justice", and even wants Harvey and Batman to commit suicide. Because in this way, it proves that the justice people believe in is only a superficial phenomenon, and it also proves that the Clown's logic "Who does not want to be righteous if not as a last resort?" is correct. In the climax of the film, the Clown takes his tricks to the extreme. He threatened the entire people of the city to either obey him or leave the city.

The last people to flee the city were on two ships. The "ordinary people" are on one ship, the mob bosses and their men on the ship. When the two ships reach the middle of the river, they suddenly stop and there is a threat from the Clown: each ship is loaded with a large amount of explosives and a detonator, each detonator controls the other ship. Only the people on one ship can survive, but the other ship must be detonated before 12:00. Will people choose to abandon others? The result is that the Clown fails. The ship carrying ordinary people voted not to detonate the detonators, while the boss of the mob on ships carrying criminals threw the detonators into the river.

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The devil Satan's way of winning the world is to capture the souls of human beings, while the Clown used the same logic. He was not interested in money. He once burned a mountain of money. The Clown was interested in imposing his logic - "who doesn't want justice when there is no last resort?" on the surrounding world. If a rich man believes that everyone is greedy, money can push the devil, then, he will use his money to "gently push" countless people, who will fall under his control. The Clown thought that everyone was evil and had no trust, he just needed to "push people" and everyone would give up justice and become very selfish, and betray others, even kill his friends himself. In the film, the Clown's weapon of "gently pushing" was the fear in people's hearts.

The Clown believes that everyone loves himself and his relatives. As long as he threatens their lives, everyone will give up the original bottom line and become a devil. The film shows the Clown's logic at the beginning. He lured some bandits wearing clown masks to rob the gangster's bank and said to them, "kill your companions so that you can get more money". Therefore, if these bandits do kill each other during the robbery, those who hesitate a little will be killed by their accomplices immediately, and the Clown himself is the most decisive in this process, so he is the only one to survive. The Clown proved that he could break the bottom line of the gangs with just a "push".

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Led by the clown, his minions robbed several gangster banks and robbed $68 million, but he broke into the gathering place of gangster bosses. Because he knew that as long as he "gently pushed", these gang bosses would unite around him. Sure enough, most gang leaders were moved when he said he could kill Batman. This is both the temptation and exploitation of the power of fear. At this time, the gang leaders were cornered by the Light forces such as Batman, Harvey Dent, and Gordon, so when he threw out the bait, the Gotham underworld quickly took refuge in him. So far, no superhero film can surpass this film, and the credit for all this is not only due to director Christopher Nolan and Batman actor Christian bell, but also the incomparable expression of the clown, the biggest villain in the film.

Before Heath Ledger, no one can show the Clown's sinister and cunning so real, flesh and blood, he played the  Clown even beyond the cartoon, is destined to become a classic. It is very difficult to portray a mentally twisted person, not to mention the fact that the Clown is a highly intelligent criminal who does evil for no reason. The climax of the film is "bombing the ship". Batman won? In fact, Batman only won one game，but the Clown took the initiative in almost the whole film. At the moment when the "Light Knight" in Gotham blackened, Batman's defeat has been determined. In fact, when we first saw the film Dark Knight many years ago, we didn't really understand it.

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In this film, Christopher Nolan created an unusual hero and a villain for us. Batman doesn't care about the personal influence of the so-called hero. What he wants is for everyone to believe in justice. The value of a hero does not lie in his natural superpowers, but in his adherence to justice in his heart even if he is deeply misunderstood. This is not a halo floating on the surface, but a burden hidden in the heart. The villain Clown also changed the Facebook character image, not for profit or fame, just to awaken the little devil inside each person. When the prosecutor is pushed to the brink, he put aside the justice he once adhered to. 

We really want to thank director Nolan. Many people say that commercial films and art films are incompatible, but the emergence of The Dark Knight has broken this boundary. 

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