I though it might be interesting to have a new thread looking specifically at some of the symbolism and visual cues in the Dark knight, an area I find pretty interesting.
It seems to me (almost a year on!) that a very prominent, and very diliberate motif throughout the film is that of windows. There a re numerous examples throughout the film, including (I may not have got them all)
*The opening shot, jokers men smashing and going through a window (one of many, many on a huge skyscraper
*the fake batman crashes against the majors office window
*bruce's penthouse feeatures a good deal of large prominent windows, he arrives through one at his party (via helicopter)
*joker shoots out, and pushes rachel through a large window in Bruces skyscraper
*batman captures lau, by crashing through a windows, then being dragged out if the same window
* during the major's assasination, the police are (wrongly) watching the windows of an overlooking building ("frankly, there's a lot of windows out here")
*bruce is almost killed when approaching a booby trapped window in the same scene
* during the interrogation scene, the cell features large windowd through which the police can see batman and the joker - though they are mirrored (so batman and joker can see only themselves) from the other side
*joker, having escaped jail, stick his head out of the police car's window
*the remote detonator is thrown out of a ship window
*at the finaly action scene, the joker picks a building "with such big windows"
*batman pushes joker through a window, then leaves him hanging outside it.
Now, i may be overanalysing, but that seems a lot!
Windows are almost everywhere in this film, and prminently placed and used. What does it show? possibly one of two things:
a) batman (windows being his preffered entry point) is potentially everywhere in each scene
b) Furthermore, from Bruce's penthouse and harvye's office, to the "mean streets" of gotham and the threats of the joker, these are the thin glass divide between order and chaos, madness and sanity..... between the ordered, safe , civilised interiors of the city, and the dangerous anarchic outside (the truck chase, the mayor scene, etc - also, the joker's final hiding place, though a skyscraper, is not enclosed)
It's also interesting to consdier the locations without any view of the outside world (the mob meeting room, the "money pile" location, even the "lower wacker" chase street - all places associated with bad guys, and chaotic behaviour...
It seems to me (almost a year on!) that a very prominent, and very diliberate motif throughout the film is that of windows. There a re numerous examples throughout the film, including (I may not have got them all)
*The opening shot, jokers men smashing and going through a window (one of many, many on a huge skyscraper
*the fake batman crashes against the majors office window
*bruce's penthouse feeatures a good deal of large prominent windows, he arrives through one at his party (via helicopter)
*joker shoots out, and pushes rachel through a large window in Bruces skyscraper
*batman captures lau, by crashing through a windows, then being dragged out if the same window
* during the major's assasination, the police are (wrongly) watching the windows of an overlooking building ("frankly, there's a lot of windows out here")
*bruce is almost killed when approaching a booby trapped window in the same scene
* during the interrogation scene, the cell features large windowd through which the police can see batman and the joker - though they are mirrored (so batman and joker can see only themselves) from the other side
*joker, having escaped jail, stick his head out of the police car's window
*the remote detonator is thrown out of a ship window
*at the finaly action scene, the joker picks a building "with such big windows"
*batman pushes joker through a window, then leaves him hanging outside it.
Now, i may be overanalysing, but that seems a lot!
Windows are almost everywhere in this film, and prminently placed and used. What does it show? possibly one of two things:
a) batman (windows being his preffered entry point) is potentially everywhere in each scene
b) Furthermore, from Bruce's penthouse and harvye's office, to the "mean streets" of gotham and the threats of the joker, these are the thin glass divide between order and chaos, madness and sanity..... between the ordered, safe , civilised interiors of the city, and the dangerous anarchic outside (the truck chase, the mayor scene, etc - also, the joker's final hiding place, though a skyscraper, is not enclosed)
It's also interesting to consdier the locations without any view of the outside world (the mob meeting room, the "money pile" location, even the "lower wacker" chase street - all places associated with bad guys, and chaotic behaviour...
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