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Winning Gotham’s Soul: An Ideological Analysis of The Dark Knight (2008)

Albeit the fact that the Batman set of franchises has already been reviewed enough for the past decades, revisiting the Dark Knight and the ideology behind it makes it worth the annoyance. The Dark Knight is a 2008 film directed, produced and co-written by Christopher Nolan. The Dark Knight series is based on the DC comic character Bruce Wayne, a young billionaire who moonlights as Batman played by Christian Bale. Other noteworthy actors involved in the film include Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman as well as Gary Oldman among others.

Nolan practically based the entire film from his inspiration borne out of the Joker’s comic debut from a 1996 series The Long Halloween which also told the story of how two-face became involved in the fight against Batman and how he acquired the desire to conquer Gotham City. As this is an ideological review, one of the necessary objectives of this article is to dissect the ideological elements apparent all throughout the film. The film maker may not be aware of such elements, he/she may even deny their existence, but through the eyes of an ideologically sensitive film critic, this analysis will attempt to unveil the essential ideologies etched in the discourse of the said film. Read whole article >>