Batman Observations- Part 2

After a second viewing on "The Dark Knight" there a few more crucial observations.

1. The joker enjoys games. Along with his showy attitude he feels that his senseless killings are a game. After he is captured the Joker still makes a game of killing Rachel. He knows that Batman wants to save her, and therefore purposefully switches the addresses so that Batman's weakness is exterminated. Another step his extermination game is implanting a cellphone inside one of his minions. He then insists on having his one phone call which detonates a bomb inside the police force allowing him to escape.

2. Secondly, Batman has a large sense of the greater good. At one point in the movie he is faced with a dilemma. He can either pursue 100 members of the mob or capture the joker. He chooses to pursue the mob because it's the greatest good the greatest number of people. Sadly, this sense of greater good is clouded by person decision when he tries to save Rachel.

3. Another observation, or rather anticipation, is after Harvey is rescued from the burning building. Half of his face is burnt as well as his lucky coin. With a common knowledge of the Batman comics we know that he is to become two-face. At this point, the viewer doesn't know what Harvey is going to add to Gotham's crime scene.

4. The saddest observation is lost love. Rachel finally decides between Batman and Harvey and then is eliminated by the Joker. Batman and Harvey both lose love. This crucial turning point in this post-modern classic is apparent, in some form, in every post-modern adaptation which adds to the theory of the "troubled hero".

5. My final observation was simple manipulation. Part of the jokers aforementioned games is manipulating Batman, commissioner Gordon, and all the rest of his victims. This is apparent in the Rachel scene. His main goal is manipulate Batman's weakness. He also does this at an earlier point in the movie to get Batman to reveal his true identity.