The Dark Knight: a Twisted Comedy

The Dark Knight: A Twisted Comedy
In the movie “The Dark Knight,” the city of Gotham is in turmoil over a massive crime organization the police call “The Mob.” The police are constantly trying to outdo this organization, but are thwarted each time they attempt to convict these criminals. Behind the scenes, however, there is another force that may possibly be even greater than “The Mob,” a whacked out clown named The Joker. The Joker is a man who doesn’t play by any rules or regulations, in his own words “I just do things.” During the movie, The Joker has a plan (that isn’t actually a plan) to ultimately prove to the city of Gotham that even the purest of hearts can be easily corrupted. This is what my paper will be about, The Joker’s “plan” for all of Gotham.
To begin with, The Joker first enacts this awkward scheme by instigating a simple crime everyone is all used to seeing, a bank robbery. This wasn’t just any bank, however, this was a mob bank, where The Mob keeps a small portion of their money (roughly $68 million), which The Joker steals. Before the robbery began, the minions were instructed by The Joker to kill each other so that each person would get a larger share of money from what they stole. This displays how insane a mind The Joker has. As planned, each of The Joker’s minions kill each other off so that they get their large sum of money, which in the end all of them are killed either by each other, or by The Joker himself.
Later on, The Joker confronts the very men that he stole from, The Mob and their leader, a Chinese businessman named Lau. The Joker warns The Mob that they need to watch out for Lau, because if he gets captured by the Gotham police then he will squeal on them and get every single last person who is in The Mob thrown in jail. Then he proposes a plan to them to kill The Batman, which is the main reason why he thinks that all of The Mob has been gathering during the day and been slacking off with their crime sprees than what they...