On an epistemological level, it's bogus

Rating: 4/10 (17 October 2014)

Like the great Shakespeare wrote: "Those with empty heads shall nothing say, and so remain like stones 'til Earth's last day". This is how I would describe Christopher Nolan's "THE DARK KNIGHT".
I have duly noted its infamous popularity, which I can only attribute to a lack of understanding regarding, first of all, the art of aesthetics; and second, philosophy. This needs perhaps some elaboration.
As Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a famous nihilist, notes, a man like the Joker can only exist given certain ontological realities, one being the de facto existence of pure probability rather than a fixed set of Platonic universals. This demonstrates an alleged entanglement with quantum physics: A simulacrum of the nothingness onto which the concept of meaning is applied can, it seems, take us further into the kind of world-view dominated by the struggle for understanding. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle seems apparent here, especially given that the philosophy of quantum mechanics now shows us that there are, in fact, cats that can live multiple lives at once under certain conditions monitored by the sort of pluviophilic entities hinted at before - there is in fact nothing certain at all, and we are left wondering if there is even such a thing as reality. The apparent flatus voicis we can derive from this pandemonium, this godless hell, is, I take it, the main concern and theme of "THE DARK KNIGHT", embodied in the positivistic antihero The Joker.
Why does the film not deliver on these seemingly apparent premises? In the words of famous French philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, there simply cannot exist a set of ontological realities without a de facto set of morals; without morals, there cannot even be reality. Epistemology would dictate that we cannot be sure even of that very uncertainty Planck detected in his discovery of quantum leaps during the 1950s. The same phenomena apply to art as well, hence my entanglement of the two into an amalgam. But as ought to be apparent by now, these morals are left to wither in a helix of inconsistency. This is, in conclusion, what is thoroughly wrong with "THE DARK KNIGHT".
This does not say, however, that the movie lacks any value of entertainment. You can watch it, if you choose to turn your brain off for its faulty epistemology.
****/10