The Dark Knight Should Be Banned

When all is at risk, and man loses hope, man looks for hope in areas too dark for light. This darkness serves as a way for society to vanish from the underlying problems present, sometimes one must reach into the darkness to see the slight hints of light. Therefore, a man must take justice into his own hands and strive towards protecting the greater good of man. In the same sense, Bruce Wayne's dark figure, Batman, takes truth on his own to protect the more significant people of Gotham. As of May 2017, IMDB classified The Dark Knight as belonging to the top movies of all time. While some argue that The Dark Knight doesn't deserve to be on the greatest films of all time because of its advocacy of vigilantism, this claim is flawed because The
The Dark Night’s worldwide box office was $1,001,620,618 (The Dark Knight). Only a handful of films have had a gross of over one billion in the box office, with The Dark Knight being on that list. The worldwide box office demonstrates that The Dark Knight had quantifiable success because of it surpassed the one billion revenue mark, of which only 34 films have been able to do. Anyone can recognize that a good selling product indicates worth and therefore, that right must be worth buying; the same sales principles apply to The Dark Knight. If the product has stellar sales then it is labeled a success; everyone loves watching success. Furthermore, IMDb, an online database of information related to films and other forms of video, reports that 1,926,217 IMDb users have given The Dark Knight a weighted average vote of 9.0 / 10 (User Ratings). Out of the hundreds of thousands of movies on IMDb, only four have a rating of 9.0 and above. The high approval ratings imply the films stellar production and acclaim as a whole. When over a million users approve highly of a product, the product was a success. Therefore, when a coalition of critics uniformly agree that a film is destined for greatness, man can rest assured that the film is
For example, Zeynep Ekin Bal and Muge Caroline Dikencik, scholars at Istanbul University, analyze the film's signals by discussing that "In the contemporary world, crime and criminal are defined through capitalism. That is to say that, those who are against the dominant ideology and pose a threat to the continuity of the existing system are the criminals"(Bal). Bal and Dikencik praise the film's view on the government's ideology as it embodies the actions that higher authorities must take to ensure justice. The films accurate portrayal on the connotations of justice in the contemporary world is remarkable because it makes the common man aware of the correct and incorrect ways to pursue justice. By the same token, Christopher Orr, the chief film critic at The Atlantic, discusses the film and how, "The Dark Knight is a peculiar hybrid, an effort to inject a great deal of moral seriousness into what is fundamentally a less-than-serious conceit"(Orr). Findings such as Orr's, help decipher the films underlying messages and how this film approaches how morally challenging serving justice can be. In essence, the way one man approaches justice is different from that of another man, which begs the question, what is the proper way to serve justice? The Dark Knight’s take on broader social