Rocket999: There's something about Dark Knight which leaves one thinking it's about getting the best from every particular scene rather than from the whole plot, which would seem to give real credence to your argument that there is little or no character development in the film. But there are many developments within conversations WITHIN these scenes, notably between Batman and the Joker, but with other characters as well, which has me thinking that the film, rather, is actually ALL ABOUT psychological movement and development. You experienced the movie as primarily about chasing, but the Joker isn't so much a dog chasing cars as he is the rhetoritician/politician/therapist set to make artful use of language and his subject's sensibilities, to draw them to see "just how pathetic they really are." He seeks to change people, and how, by appearances, such an outlandish, merciless, crazy, clown, set against the impossible, will actually manage (or come surpris...