The Dark Knight Analysis

The Dark Knight has many contrasts through out the film, the main overlaying contrast is the one between good and evil. Another contrast which occurs frequently to build up to the action is the simultaneous meetings of the good and bad characters in different scenes. This allows us to see the plot from both perspectives whilst also showing a vivid contrast between characters. A sense of enigma is built up in the beginning parts of the film when the new villain takes form as the "Joker". The film also creates enigma by showing the audience continuous events which seem unrelated to each other which cleverly come together at the end to form the climax.
This film, as evidence is given in the title, is pretty dark, holds a shadowy atmosphere throughout. Most scenes being shot at night. A few more contrasts throughout the film are placed such as the villains meeting in the dark and the heroes in the light, this shows that they have nothing to hide and clearly establishes the characters. There is also a contrast personality in the main hero himself, when he is in "batman" form he acts dark and shadowy, but when he is "bruce" he is bright and cheery. This may be to make sure the other characters in the plot can distinguish the difference and recognize that Bruce could not be Batman because of their vivid contrasting personality's. This reflects the contrasting views that the other characters hold about batman and about bruce, some think what batman does is wrong and some think he is a hero and some think bruce is a spoilt, "rich boy" whilst others think he is generous as he gives to charity and holds fundraisers for other people.
Although in the majority of the film there is a contrast between the villains only appearing at night and the good guys in the day, towards the end quarter of the film the darkness (the villains) start appearing in the day and then people who were safe in the day are no longer and so the atmosphere changes and everything seems bad.
The mood in the beginning is fast paced, it slows down in the middle until the end when the events start to form together in the climax. The atmosphere is kept consistently as everyone is addressing the same problem and looking for a solution to their current situation.
The music in the film is quite cold and eerie throughout and they build suspension with ticking noises, smashing and guns reloading.