escalation !

Rating: 10/10 (24 August 2019)

BATMAN
Gotham will return to normal.
GORDON
Will it? What about escalation?
BATMAN
Escalation?
GORDON
We start carrying semiautomatics, they buy automatics... we start wearing kevlar, they buy armor piercing rounds...
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This last dialogue of 'Batman Begins' sums-up the nature of its sequel 'Dark Knight'. Everything is escalating in Dark Knight. Every time Batman does something, Joker raises the stake higher. Batman unwillingly inspires hokey pad wearing vigilantes; Joker starts to kill them and threatens to kill more if Batman will not turn himself in. Batman fights him, so Joker put Batman in the dilemma, where he could save either Rachel or Harvey. He orchestrates even larger dilemma for innocent citizens and criminals. But with excellent reasoning, Joker fails to 'prove a point'.