One of the best

Rating: 10/10 (25 August 2015)

What's so beautiful about this movie is that despite the fact you're watching a grown man in a bat suit fighting criminals, the director lets you enter the realistic world of a chaotic city. The Joker exploits the errors in even our current society (how even the most good of people are corruptible, like how Harvey Dent turned against his people and how the Batman himself had to break his rule and kill Dent). One line in movie history I will NEVER forget is when the Joker asks, "How many of your friends have I killed? [...] You see, in their last moments people show you who they really are. So in a way, I knew your friends better than you ever did." This is true. We would expect order but when everything is metaphorically falling down.. Who follows rules? If a crazed killer is chasing your vehicle, are you going to stop for that red light? Or if a building is collapsing, are the elderly and disabled going to escape first (just for social manners)? No. And this emotional transition can be seen in the people of Gotham through-out the movie. When the movie begins the police officers allow meetings with the Batman but later in the movie they grow selfish and blame Batman for not revealing his identity. Why? Because they are being threatened with their life for it. Otherwise the people of Gotham would happily let a normal citizen beat people to a pulp (people who they believe deserve it, although there is no official, legal justice in the matter).
All in all, The Dark Knight is an action-packed, thrilling and interesting movie. While at the same time, it is incredibly and beautifully dark and depressing.