Chapter 552: The Dark Knight II
Therefore, the "Night Knight" wants to hand over the burden of taking care of Gotham City to the "Knight of Light" so that he can live happily with his beloved.
Women are contradictory, women often do things like this: fall in love with a hero, but say to the hero, 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 City almost died under the plot of the Joker, and other bloody killings continue to stimulate the fragile souls of the Gotham people.
Eventually, Batman decides to succumb to the Joker's demands. The Joker says he will stop killing as long as Batman turns himself in (the Gotham City police have been hunting down the "violent vigilante").
This is actually a wedge between Batman and the citizens of Gotham.
The public is more easily divided, and they have called for Batman to appear. Harvey asked the people, "Do you really want to sacrifice this hero who has always protected you?"
They replied, "Yes."
At this time, Harvey said, "It's Batman!"
It was at this moment that Rachel genuinely hated Bruce Wayne for the first time, and she reprimanded him for letting the Attorney General take the blame and decided to marry Harvey.
However, who exactly does she want to marry?
Obviously, she was the one who decided to marry the most heroic, the most right. So, does she really want Batman to become an ordinary person?
Harvey, who is captured, is sent to prison, and the Joker plots to kill him on the way. Naturally, the Night Knight will come to protect the Knight of Light.
After a fierce battle, the Joker is left alone and Batman crashes into him on a high-tech motorcycle.
But the clown did not dodge, but smiled and said to himself: "Bump me! Bump me!"
Here, the audience began to have a new understanding of the Joker's madness, at first, many viewers were puzzled by this plot, but then it became clear that he wanted to use self-sacrifice to lure Batman to break through his bottom line of "not killing", so as to prove that he was the only right.
"Only I am right", the allure of this feeling is really powerful, and in order to "defend" this feeling, the clown does not hesitate to die, his madness and determination make people shudder.
Batman also understands this, and in the nick of time, he dodges and is knocked unconscious, but Gordon, who is still tricked to death by the Joker, is arrested.
As expected, the arrest is also an elaborate trap for the clown. He knew that Gordon was not dead, and that Gordon would definitely send him to Gordon's own special cell, where there was a special person who held all the wealth of the gang. He also designed many traps around this.
But Batman and the police don't know about this trap, and they think that arresting the Joker will be all right. But they soon discover that it was a hallucination, and that the Joker's men had captured Harvey and Rachel.
And in prison, the Joker gives Batman the second choice question in the film: one place is locked up Harvey Dent, the other is locked up Rachel, time is limited, you can only save one, who do you save?
The scene where Batman tortures the Joker can be called the pinnacle showdown, Xiao Lizi's anger and strength, as well as the will to collapse at any time are meaningless, and Hoffman's clown's madness and distortion are also chilling, this is an unprecedented person who is evil for evil, Jack Nicholson's clown is comic exaggeration and absurdity, but Hoffman's clown is completely crazy, completely collapsed neurosis.
Batman chose to save Rachel, which happened to fall into the trap of the Joker, who deliberately said the wrong place, saying that the location where Rachel was turned off was actually Harvey.
So, Batman rescued Harvey, and Rachel died in the fire.
In this regard, Bruce Wayne reflected that he made an "incorrect decision" and finally learned "something that Batman is also powerless". This time it also seems to verify the logic of the clown: "When it is not a last resort, who doesn't want justice and awe-inspiring?"
This is not only something that Batman "can't do", but also the reason why all the good guys in the film have become bad. The clown's man did not pull a policeman into the water, and it was all achieved by coercing the lives of the policeman's loved ones. For example, Rachel was kidnapped because a female policeman under Gordon was threatened by this, and Harvey was kidnapped, and the clown was able to unscrupulously create a series of things such as blowing up a female judge, poisoning the police chief, shooting the mayor, and blowing up Gotham General Hospital, all because he used this threat to break through the bottom line of one good person after another.
In the climax of the film, the Joker takes this trick to the extreme. He threatens the entire city to either "be my man" or leave the city. The last group of people to flee the city were on two boats, one with the good guys and the other with the underworld bosses and their men.
When the two boats reached the river, they suddenly stopped, and the clown threatened: each boat was loaded with a large amount of explosives, and there was a detonator, but the detonator controlled the other boat, and only one of the people on board could survive, on the condition that the other boat must be detonated before 12 o'clock.
This is the Joker's third multiple-choice question in the film, and the choice is from the public. People have chosen to abandon Batman, will they still choose to abandon others?
As a result, the Joker failed. The boat with ordinary people on board, by vote, decided not to detonate the detonator, and the boat with the criminals, the detonator was thrown into the river by an underworld boss.
In Christian legend, Satan the Devil won the world by capturing human souls, and the Joker used the same logic, who was not interested in money in the slightest, and once burned mountains of money and said that "this city is worthy of a criminal with taste". He also said to Batman: "You should know, I'm not interested in money, I'm not that kind of person, you don't want to reduce me to that kind of person." ”
The clown is interested in his logic "Who doesn't want justice when there is no necessity?" Impose on the world around you. Alfred, Bruce Wayne's butler, found out about this at the outset, and he gave Batman the example of a time when bandits robbed them of their gems, but they threw them away, and they weren't really interested in them, they did it just because "they thought it was interesting." They won't be bought, they won't be intimidated, they won't be reasonable, they won't accept negotiations, some just want to watch the world burn. ”
This is also the common desire of all the most evil criminals, they are not interested in money, power, fame and other things that can be seen and touched, they want influence, they want to impose their will on the world, make the world tremble with their desires, and it will not work to look at them with ordinary logic.
At this point, gangsters and heroes are often two sides of the same coin, and they really want influence, not justice, fairness, universal truth, or "absolutely right things."
The climax of the film is the third option, on which the Joker loses, but the Joker still laughs because he thinks he won the "Battle of Gotham Souls".
What the Joker means is that he defeated Harvey with his logic, and finally got the "Knight of Light" to obey his logic.
It's true.
After Rachel was killed, Harvey despaired.
Although Batman saved him, the left side of his face was burned with gasoline, his skin was peeling, his muscles and teeth were exposed, and he was in great pain, but he refused to accept any pain-relieving treatment, which is understandable, because it is more physical pain than the heartache of losing a lover, and it allows him to shift his attention from heartache to physical pain.
The double pain caused Harvey to abandon his "fanatical quest for justice" and turn into a complete opportunist, tracking down and torturing all those involved in Rachel's death, and deciding their lives by flipping a coin.
It may seem heart-wrenching that the "Knight of Light" turned into a "Two-Faced Horseman", but it is no accident.
The film shows that he has long been nicknamed "Two-Faced Man", and he has always liked to flip a coin, and the "fanatical pursuit of justice" he shows is just one side, while the other side of him has long existed, and the logic of the clown "Who doesn't want justice when they are not forced to do so?" It can be used on him without compromise.
It can be said that Harvey is not chasing "light", but he discovers that he can pursue influence by pursuing light, he became the idol of the citizens of Gotham through his "fanatical pursuit of justice", and he finally gained Rachel's love by carrying the black pot for Batman.
This is a great benefit.
However, Rachel dies, and the logic of his existence is subverted all at once.
From this point of view, he and Batman are just "similar and inseparable", in layman's terms, he looks very similar to Batman, but there are fundamental differences in nature.
The difference is that Batman has no interest in influence, he pursues justice.
At the end of the film, he is willing to bear the blame for Harvey and take the killing of the "Knight of Light" on himself, at the expense of making people think that he has broken the killing ring. But he is willing to bear all this, and let the Gotham people meet the light, not a hero who performs, but a real hero.
It's not the form that matters, it's the soul that matters, and that's what the Joker and Batman have in common.
And, although the Joker doesn't seem to have any bottom line and calls himself an "agent of chaos" and says he hates order, the world he wants to create is still orderly, and he wants to make the world fearful, which is nothing more than an externalization of his "inner tyrannical father" tormenting his "inner masochistic little boy". He had subordinated to his father's logic, identified with the "inner tyrannical father", and he wanted the whole world to submit to this violence, just as he had been.
But the little boy in his heart was afraid of this coming true, because it meant that all his world would be plunged into darkness and there would be no more light. So, when someone really wanted to reveal Batman's true identity, he issued a hunt order to the person.
Even, even if Batman really has no ability to resist, he will give up when he is allowed to slaughter.
Or, he'll kill this Batman and then find another Batman to kill.
If there was only one Batman in this world, he would be reluctant to kill him. It's not just about living in "a less boring world" in order to keep fighting, it's also a little bit of a faint but firm cry from the little boy in his heart.
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