The Dark Knight Moral Analysis

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Because of Heath Ledger death in January 2008 when he is 28years old only. Heath Ledger truly make a diary when preparing to play the character as Joker. According to The Sun “ He also wrote a journal as the Joker in the run-up to the movie shoot, which ominously ended with the words "bye bye".” Maybe Heath Ledger unable to manage his stress being a Joker in The Dark Knight or too exceed to act as a Joker. In this issue, Christoper Nolan fail to concern his actor and put so must expectation on Heath Ledger in his character.

Golden Mean
Christoper Nolan want to shot a film which contain moral behavior is the mean between two extremes. For example, Joker plays as a villain role who always give the trouble to society and Batman is responsible in tackle social issue. Once the Batman come, then audience can clearly understand, the bad guy will be face to music in the end. The two extremes including where there is a bad, there is also a good thing. Christopher Nolan did a good job in doing research about moral issue that happening in today’s social.

Golden Rule
Golden rule teaches people “love your neighbors as yourself”, love is essential in our human life. Why golden rule is related to The Dark Knight? There is a question behind question is “why the terror appears. ” All sins are stem from the lack of love. For
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This is what Christoper Nolan want to distribute pictures for benefit to the community. In the scene that when Batman is on his super bike,and he almost kill the Joker, but he fail because of his justice principle is “not killing.” As we are audience, we think that whether Joker is in sin but he is still a human life. Needless to say, Christopher Nolan want to deliver the message (mercy) to audience by medium (film). This is why Utilitarianism plays a main part in film

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