The movie was released on 18th July 2008. The cast of the movie includes:
Christian Bale plays Batman, Bruce Wayne in the movie
Joker is portrayed by the OSCAR-winning actor Heath Ledger
Gary Oldman as James Gordon, Batman's companion
Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent)
Morgan Freeman (Lucius Fox)
Michael Caine (Alfred Pennyworth)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Rachel Dawes)
Written by: Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer, and Jonathan Nolan
Directed by: Christopher Nolan
Plot summary:
The opening sequence of the movie displays a group of robbers in clown masks breaking into a bank. But as they finish the burglary in the bank, they are seen killing each other too. The mastermind behind this is one of the robbers named Joker who separately convinces each of the robbers that the fewer the people, the larger the portion of money shared. As a result of his plan, only Joker is left at the end of the robbery. On the other hand, it is shown how peaceful and safe Gotham City has become due to the presence of Batman as the city’s villains are afraid of doing anything wrong.
After getting informed about the recent robbery, Batman goes to talk to a police officer named James Gordon. They make a plan of capturing all the black money of the underworld from five different banks in the city. They ask Harvey Dent, the judge of the city to help them in the mission and give details of the banks where the black money is kept. But the underworld is already informed about the mission so a man named Lao takes all that money from the city before the police arrive there and flees to Hongkong. He informs the other members of the underworld by appearing on tv. But the same Joker appears on the scene and warns them that Batman would catch them from any corner of the world and hence he must be killed. He offers a deal that he can kill Batman if he is given half of the share of the money they have. One of the guys from the underworld becomes furious listening to him but no one could do anything because he shows his jacket full of grenades. Joker leaves the place giving them his number with the deal still on.
Batman, James Gordon, and Harvey Dent find out that the black money had already been shipped. They get shocked at how the underworlds found out they were raiding the banks. They suspect that some government officials must be working in favor of the underworld. They also get worried that the Chinese government wouldn’t allow them to take Lao out of the country. Batman asks Harvey if he can make Lao spill the truth if Batman brings Lao back from China. Harvey with full optimism and hope accepts that he can do that anyway. Despite the high security and advanced defense of the Chinese government, Batman is able to take Lao back to Gotham City. Lao tells them that he won’t disclose where the money is but will give the details of each and every one involved. As a result, a lot of mischief gets caught. Harvey gets to file a case against 539 such people involved in illegal black marketing business. Now the batman starts killing people too. He kills many individuals dressed as Batman who aspire to be like Batman. Bruce(who is Batman), being a very successful businessman throws a grand party and invites Harvey Dent and his girlfriend Rachel too. During the party, he gets informed that Joker was going to come to kill Harvey Dent because Harvey had put a lot of criminals behind the bar. So Bruce passes Harvey unconscious and takes him to save him from the Joker. As expected Joker breaks into the party and tortures everyone asking where Harvey is. Rachel tries to stop Joker from doing that but Joker throws her out of the window. Bruce, coming out in the suit of Batman successfully saves Rachel. But unfortunately, Joker kills the police commissioner and the judge who was going to decide the case against those 539 black marketing businessmen. The next target of the Joker seems to be the mayor of the city. James Gordon saves the mayor from the shot and gives his life. Harvey Dent at the same time gets to know that the next target of Joker is Rachel. He alerts Rachel about this and tells her to stay at Bruce’s penthouse as it is the safest place. Batman asks one of the bad men where Joker is but he tells Batman that Joker would come there himself to find him if he removes his mask. Harvey Dent on the other hand furiously tries to find Joker asking one suspect but the guy doesn’t tell anything. Harvey tried to decide the guy's fate by tossing a coin when Batman shows up and asks him not to do so. He adds that he would disclose his face tomorrow in the conference because he thinks he himself is the root of Joker’s wrongdoings. At the conference, people were also outraged against Batman because they too blame Batman for Joker’s actions. But at the moment of disclosure, before Bruce could come out of the crowd Harvey Dent discloses himself as Batman. And he gets arrested as he was silent about his identity when a lot of people were killed by Joker. Harvey Dent being taken to a safer place for interrogations gets attacked by the Joker. Fortunately, Batman arrives and successfully saves Harvey. Batman doesn’t kill Joker because it seems to be out of his ethics. Batman gets unconscious while saving Joker from the bike crash and as a result, Joker gets to attack Batman. The heroic moment occurs as James Gordon appears and takes Joker to gunpoint. James Gordon was thought to be killed but it was actually their plan to help capture Joker. The public also gets to know that Harvey Dent is not the real Batman. On the other hand, James Gordon gets promoted as a police commissioner due to his heroic action at the pivot moment.
Harvey Dent is sent safely to his place but later they get to know that he has not reached the home but instead has been captured by Joker’s people. Batman tries his best to make Joker tell where Harvey was. But Joker remains unaffected by any of his tortures. Joker tells that he never has any intention of killing Batman but wants to break the ethic of Batman of not killing anyone ever. Joker adds that Rachel, too has been under their captive and he can save any one of them. He plays a game by giving the opposite location of Rachel and Harvey Dent. And as a result, Harvey Dent gets saved by Batman but Rachel dies in the blast. Harvey gets whole one side of their face burnt. Joker flees from the prison and takes Lao with him too. He takes control of all that black money and burns it along with Lao. At the same time, it is shown that one of the employees in Bruce’s office knows that Bruce himself is Batman. But Joker threatens him not to disclose anything.
Joker meets Harvey at the hospital, urges him to seek retribution for Rachel's murder, and turns him to the dark side. Harvey now assumes his identity as ‘Two Face’. Joker explodes in the same hospital but no one is killed because they had already kept every patient in a safe place. Harvey flees from the hospital. Harvey kills many innocents after losing their minds in the grief of Rachel.
On the other hand, a threatening tape is played saying that the whole of the city will be under Joker’s fist. Everyone wants to leave the city. Batman spots Joker through a sonar device in a building where he has kept a lot of individuals hostage. Batman cleverly saves each of them. At the same time, a scene is shown where Joker has been kept hostage by innocent people on one ship and criminals on another. He tells them that he is going to blow each of the ships, but they can save themselves if they decide to blow the people from the other ship by pressing a button. But it is seen that people from none of the boats decide to blast the other and it outrages Joker as he fails to take humanity off the people. Now the Joker tries to blow both the ships off but Batman saves him from doing so by throwing him off the building. But Batman saves Joker from dying as it is out of Batman’s ethics. Joker tells Batman about the evil reality of Harvey Dent and how people would lose trust in humanity if they get to know how Harvey has taken the lives of the innocents. They take Joker to the mental asylum.
Now Harvey is seen taking James Gordon’s family hostage. He has assumed Gordon is the reason for Rachel’s death. He tries to decide Gordon’s son’s fate by tossing a coin. Batman tries to convince Harvey that it was Joker’s plan to manipulate him to turn evil but he doesn’t listen at all. He even shoots Batman. When he tries to kill Gordon’s son, Batman saves Gordon’s son but Harvey Dent dies falling off the building.
James Gordon becomes sad realizing that the public would stop believing in humanity and goodness if they get to know that even an ideal person like Harvey has taken the lives of the innocents. So Batman decides to take the blame on his shoulder. In a public conference, they declare Harvey a hero. As a result, citizens of Gotham assume Harvey Dent is their hero and Batman is a villain.
In the ending scene of the movie, it is shown that Rachel had left a letter for Bruce stating that she was going to marry Harvey. Although Bruce loved her, she can’t accept him as Batman and she knew that he would never change that for her. She had given the letter to Alfred, Bruce’s worker but he burns it because he feels that there is no meaning in delivering the letter now.
The movie was a super success and one of the best superhero movies. The budget of the movie was 185 million Dollars while the box office collection was 1 billion Dollars.
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