Chapter 553

Therefore, the "Dark Knight" wants to hand over the burden of caring for Gotham to the "light Knight", so that he can live a happy life with his beloved.

Women are contradictory. Women often do such things: fall in love with a hero, but tell the hero that I will marry you only if you become an ordinary person.

However, is this true?

Because of Batman's protection, Harvey has always been safe, but others are not so lucky. The mayor of Gotham almost died under the conspiracy of the clown, and other bloody killings continue to stimulate the fragile soul of Gotham people.

Finally, Batman decided to succumb to the clown's demands. The clown said that as long as Batman turned himself in (Gotham police have been chasing the "violent vigilante"), he would stop killing.

This is actually separating Batman from Gotham citizens.

The public is more easily alienated, and they have called on Batman to show up. Harvey asked the people, "do you really want to sacrifice the hero who has always protected you?"

They answered one after another, yes.

At this time, Harvey said, "it's Batman!"

At this moment, Rachel really hated Bruce Wayne for the first time. She scolded him for letting the attorney general bear the blame and decided to marry Harvey.

However, who does she want to marry?

Obviously, she decided to marry the most heroic person, the most right person. So, does she really want Batman to become an ordinary person?

The arrested Harvey will be sent to prison, and the clown designs to kill him on the road. Naturally, the "Dark Knight" will protect the "light Knight".

After a fierce war, the clown was left alone, and Batman hit him with a high-tech motorcycle.

But the clown did not dodge, but grinned and said to himself, "hit me! Hit me!"

Here, the audience began to have a new understanding of the clown's madness. At the beginning, many viewers were puzzled by this plot, but then understood that he wanted to use self sacrifice to lure Batman to break through his bottom line of "no killing", so as to prove that he was the only right.

”Only I am right ". The temptation of this feeling is really strong. In order to" defend "this feeling, the clown does not hesitate to die. His madness and firm will make people afraid.

Batman also understood this. At the critical moment, he dodged and fainted, but the clown pretended to be dead and Gordon was arrested.

Unexpectedly, arrest is also a well-designed trap of the clown. He knew that Gordon was not dead, and Gordon would send him to Gordon's own special cell, where there was a special person holding all the wealth of the gang. Around this point, he also designed many traps.

But Batman and the police didn't know about the trap. They thought it would be all right to arrest the clown. But they soon found that it was an illusion. The clown took Harvey and Rachel.

In prison, the clown gave Batman the second multiple-choice question in the film: Harvey Dent in one place and Rachel in the other. Time is limited. You can only save one. Who can you save?

Batman's torture of clowns can be called a peak duel. The anger and strength of little plum and the will to collapse at any time are meaningless. The madness and distortion of Hoffman's clown are also chilling. This is an unprecedented evil person. Jack Nicholson's clown is comic exaggeration and absurdity, but Hoffman's clown is completely crazy, Completely collapsed neuropathy.

Batman chose to save Rachel, which was just trapped by the clown. The clown deliberately said the wrong place. He said that Harvey was actually off Rachel's place.

So Batman rescued Harvey, and Rachel was buried in the fire.

In this regard, Bruce Wayne reflected that he made an "incorrect decision" and finally learned "what Batman can't reach". This time, it also seemed to verify the clown's logic "who doesn't want justice before the last resort?"

This is not only Batman's "beyond his power", but also the reason why all the good people in the film become bad. The clown didn't pull a policeman into the water. It was realized by threatening the lives of police relatives. For example, Rachel was kidnapped because a female policeman under Gordon was threatened, and so was Harvey. The clown can recklessly create a series of things, such as bombing a female judge, poisoning the police chief, shooting the mayor, blowing up Gotham general hospital and so on, because he used this threat to break through the bottom line of one good man after another.

In the climax of the film, the clown takes this trick to the extreme. He threatened the whole city to either "be my man" or leave the city. The last group of people who fled the city took two boats. One was a good man, and the other was the underworld bosses and their subordinates.

When the two ships arrived in the river, they suddenly stopped, and there was a threat from the clown: each ship was loaded with a large amount of explosives and a detonator, but the detonator controlled another ship. Only the people on one ship could survive, provided that the other ship must be detonated before 12 o'clock.

This is the third multiple-choice question given by the clown in the film, and the choice range is the people. People once chose to abandon Batman. Will they still choose to abandon others?

As a result, the clown failed. The ship carrying ordinary people voted not to detonate the detonator, while the ship carrying criminals threw the detonator into the river by an underworld boss.

In Christian legend, the devil Satan's way to win the world is to capture the human soul, while the clown uses the same logic. He is not interested in money at all. He once burned a mountain of money and said that "this city deserves a tasteful criminal". He also said to Batman, "you should know that I'm not interested in money. I'm not that kind of person. Don't downgrade me to that kind of person."

The clown is interested in imposing his logic "who doesn't want justice when there is no last resort?" on the surrounding world. Alfred, Bruce Wayne's housekeeper, discovered this at the beginning. He gave Batman an example. Once bandits robbed their gemstones, but they threw them away everywhere. In fact, they were not interested in gemstones. They did so only because "They think it's interesting. They won't be bought, intimidated, reasoned, or negotiated. Some people just want to see the world burn."

This is also the common desire of all the most evil criminals. They are not interested in tangible things such as money, power, fame and wealth. They want influence. They want to impose their will on the world and make the world tremble with their desire. It is impossible to treat them with ordinary logic.

At this point, bandits and heroes are often two sides of the same coin. What they want is influence, not justice, fairness, universal truth or "absolutely right thing".

The climax of the film is the third choice. In this choice, the clown lost, but the clown still laughed because he thought he had won the "battle of Gotham's soul".

The clown means that he defeated Harvey with his logic and finally let the "Knight of light" obey his logic.

It's true.

Harvey was desperate after Rachel died.

Although Batman saved him, his left face was burned by gasoline, his skin fell off, his muscles and teeth were bare, and he was in great pain, but he refused to accept any pain treatment, which is understandable, because this physical pain is easier to bear than the heartache of losing his lover, and it can turn his attention from heartache to physical pain.

The double pain made Harvey give up his "crazy pursuit of justice" and become a complete opportunist. He tracked and tortured all people involved in Rachel's death, and decided each other's life and death by flipping a coin.

It seems heartbreaking that the "light Knight" has become a "double-sided Knight", but it is no accident.

The film shows that he has a nickname "double faced man" for a long time, and he always likes to flip coins. His "crazy pursuit of justice" is only one side, and his other side has long existed. The clown's logic "who doesn't want justice when there is no last resort?" can be used on him.

It can be said that Harvey is not pursuing "light", but he found that he can pursue influence through the pursuit of light. He has become the idol of Gotham citizens through the "crazy pursuit of justice". He has finally won Rachel's love by carrying the black pot for Batman.

This is a great advantage.

However, when Rachel died, his survival logic was suddenly overturned.

From this point of view, he and Batman are just "similar in shape but separated from God". Generally speaking, he looks very similar to Batman, but there are fundamental differences in essence.

The difference is that Batman is not interested in influence. He pursues justice.

At the end of the film, he is willing to take the blame for Harvey and bear the killing of the "light Knight" on himself. He does not hesitate to make people think that he has broken the killing. But he is willing to bear all this and let the Gotham people meet the light. This is not an displayed hero, but a real hero.

What matters is not form, but soul. This is what clowns and Batman have in common.

Moreover, although the clown seems to have no bottom line and says he is a "chaotic agent" and hates order, the world he wants to build is still orderly. He wants to make the world fear. This is just the externalization of his "inner tyrannical father" torturing his "inner abused little boy". He once obeyed his father's logic and agreed with that "The inner tyrannical father", and he also hopes that the whole world will succumb to this violence like he once did.

However, the little boy in his heart was afraid of this, because it meant that all his world would fall into darkness and there would be no light. Therefore, when someone really wanted to reveal Batman's true identity, he issued a hunting order to this man.

Even if Batman really has no resistance, he will give up when he is slaughtered.

Or he'll kill the Batman and then find a Batman to kill.

If there is only one Batman in the world, he will be reluctant to kill. This is not only to live in "a less boring world" in order to keep fighting, but also a weak and firm voice of the little boy in his heart.