漫威打造出了宏达的漫威宇宙，DC则给世人送上蝙蝠侠当作献礼。剧中一心维护哥谭正义的蝙蝠侠，迎来了癫狂、做坏事毫无目的、只为好玩的小丑。他将哥谭市设置成大型试验场，只为实现自己根深蒂固的无政府主义的理论自洽。剧中饰演小丑的希斯莱杰拍完这部影片后意外离世，这部影片也成了他生前最后一部完整的作品。
Plot
A gang of criminals rob a Gotham City mob bank, murdering each other for a higher share of the money until only the Joker remains, who escapes with the money. Batman, District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James Gordon form an alliance to rid Gotham City of organized crime. Bruce Wayne believes that with Dent as Gotham’s protector, he can retire from being Batman and lead a normal life with Rachel Dawes – even though she and Dent are dating.
故事从小丑（Joker）带领手下抢劫哥谭市黑道银行开始，受小丑玩弄，他们为了分到更多的赃款自相残杀，最后只剩小丑带钱逃跑。蝙蝠侠Bruce Wayne、地方检察官Harvey Dent和中尉James Gordon联手打击哥谭市犯罪。Bruce Wayne相信哥谭市有Dent保护，他就可以退休和Rachel Dawes过上普通人的生活了，不过当时Rachel Dawes已经和Dent交往了。
Mob bosses Sal Maroni, Gambol, and the Chechen hold a video conference with their corrupt accountant, Lau, who has taken their funds for safekeeping and fled to Hong Kong. The Joker interrupts the meeting to warn them that since Batman is unhindered by the law, he would find Lau, who would give up the mob's money for a plea bargain. Joker offers to kill Batman in exchange for half of their money. The mob bosses disagree, and Gambol places a bounty on the Joker. The Joker finds and kills Gambol, taking over his gang. The mob decides to take the Joker up on his offer.
黑帮会计刘（Lau）带着黑帮赃款逃往香港。黑帮老大Gambol等人和刘召开视频会议时，小丑闯入，大肆宣扬，蝙蝠侠躲在暗处，一旦刘被蝙蝠侠抓住，刘势必会认罪以换取减刑，因此小丑提议拿出一半的钱雇用他杀死蝙蝠侠。这一提议不仅遭到拒绝，Gambol还悬赏杀死小丑，结果被小丑发现后一帮人一概被杀，剩下的成员只能答应小丑的提议。
Batman finds Lau in Hong Kong and brings him back to Gotham to testify, allowing Dent to apprehend the entire mob. The Joker threatens to kill people unless Batman reveals his identity, and starts by murdering Police Commissioner Gillian B. Loeb and the judge presiding over the mob trial. The Joker also tries to kill Mayor Anthony Garcia, but Gordon sacrifices himself to stop the assassination. Dent kidnaps one of Joker’s henchmen and threatens him with a seemingly deadly game of heads or tails until Batman intervenes, warning Dent that all the criminals he has convicted would be released if anyone found out. Dent learns that Rachel is Joker’s next target.
蝙蝠侠将刘带回哥谭伏法，Dent借机将暴徒一网打尽。小丑杀死了警察局长Gillian B. Loeb和审判黑帮的法官，并威胁蝙蝠侠若还不公布身份，以后会有人陆续死去。在一次市长演讲中，小丑图谋杀死市长，被Gordon拼死救下。Dent劫持了小丑的一名手下，以抛硬币的方式逼迫其交出小丑下落。蝙蝠侠及时赶到，拦下了Dent，因为Dent一旦这么做，所有被他判罪的罪犯都得被释放。以此同时，Rachel成了小丑的下一个目标。
Bruce decides to reveal his secret identity to prevent more deaths. Before he can, however, Dent falsely announces that he is Batman to lure the Joker out. Dent is taken into protective custody, but the Joker appears and attacks the convoy. Batman comes to Dent’s rescue and Gordon, who faked his death, apprehends the Joker, securing a promotion to Commissioner. Rachel and Dent are escorted away by detectives on Maroni’s payroll; Gordon later learns that they never arrived home. Batman interrogates the Joker, who reveals that they have been trapped in separate locations rigged with explosives and that Batman must choose one to save. Batman races to save Rachel, while Gordon attempts to rescue Dent. Batman arrives at the building, but realizes that the Joker has sent him to Dent’s location instead. Both buildings explode, killing Rachel and disfiguring Dent. The Joker escapes with Lau, who leads him to the Mob's funds. The Joker burns his share of the money and kills Lau.
为避免更多伤亡，Bruce决定公布秘密身份。Dent却抢先一步宣布自己就是蝙蝠侠，以此诱惑小丑现身。小丑中计现身想杀死Dent，却被Gordon和蝙蝠侠阻止并被逮捕。Rachel和Dent在侦探的护送下离开，结果却并未到家。蝙蝠侠对小丑展开审讯，后者告知他Rachel和Dent分别被关在两个放置了遥控爆裂物的地方，蝙蝠侠只能救出一个。蝙蝠侠立即出发去救Rachel，同时Gordon带人去救Dent。两方到达后，才发现小丑故意将两人的位置说反。Dent被蝙蝠侠及时救出，却被烧掉了半边脸。但Rachel却没能脱险，在爆炸中身亡。小丑带着刘从监狱逃出，前往藏匿赃款的地方，将自己那一半钱烧掉后，杀死了刘。
Coleman Reese, an accountant at Wayne Enterprises, deduces that Bruce is Batman and threatens to publicize the information. Not wanting Reese’s revelation to interfere with his plans, the Joker threatens to destroy a hospital unless Reese is killed within an hour. All hospitals are evacuated and Gordon travels to secure Reese. The Joker, disguised as a hospital nurse, discovers Dent’s ward and hands him a gun, convincing him to seek revenge for Rachel’s death. The Joker destroys the hospital and escapes with a busload of hostages. Dent goes on a killing spree, deciding the fates of people he holds responsible for Rachel’s death by flipping his lucky coin, one face of which was corroded in the explosion. Dent eventually apprehends Gordon’s family, believing Gordon’s love for his family parallels his love for Rachel.
韦恩企业（蝙蝠侠的家族企业）的会计Coleman Reese得知蝙蝠侠的真实身份后，扬言要公布出来。不想让Reese打乱自己计划的小丑威胁当局若不在一个小时之内杀死Reese，就要炸毁医院。Gordon指挥所有医院的人员撤离。小丑打扮成护士潜入Dent病房，交给他一支枪，煽动Dent为Rachel报仇。小丑出来后，炸毁了那家医院，带着一车人质逃离。Dent展开疯狂杀戮，他找到与Rachel的死相关的人，以抛硬币的方式决定他们的生死。最后找到Gordon的家人，在Dent看来，Gordon的计划有漏洞也是导致Richel去世的原因之一。他要让Gordon也体会到失去挚爱之痛。
After announcing that Gotham City will be subject to his rule by nightfall, the Joker rigs two evacuating ferries with explosives; one carrying civilians and the other prisoners. The passengers have been supplied with a trigger to the other boat’s explosives, and the Joker announces through an intercom that he will blow both ferries if one of them has not been destroyed by midnight. Batman finds the Joker by using a sonar device that spies on the entire city, with the reluctant help of Lucius Fox. The civilians and the prisoners refuse to kill each other, while Batman apprehends the Joker after a fight. Before the police arrive to take the Joker into custody, he gloats that Gotham’s citizens will lose hope once Dent’s rampage becomes public knowledge.
另一边，小丑扬言整个高谭市都将笼罩在黑暗之中。他在两艘（一艘载着平民，一艘载着罪犯）渡轮上装上炸弹，并将引爆器交到对方手里，由他们在午夜前决定是否引爆对方的船只，否则小丑就会亲自动手将两只船全部炸掉。平民和罪犯都迟迟下不了手。另一边，在韦恩集团Lucius Fox帮助下，蝙蝠侠发现小丑通过一个声呐装置监视整个哥谭。他借此找到小丑，经过一番激战，将小丑控制。小丑洋洋得意地称，一旦将代表正义的Dent的行径公之于众，整个哥谭市就会失去希望，彻底陷入黑暗之中。
Gordon and Batman arrive at the building where Rachel died and find Dent threatening to kill Gordon’s family. Dent again flips his coin and shoots Batman, spares himself, and aims to kill Gordon's son, claiming that Gordon’s negligence is responsible for Rachel’s death. Batman, who was wearing body armor, tackles Dent off the building to his death. Batman persuades Gordon to let him take responsibility for the killing spree to preserve Dent’s heroic image. As the police launch a manhunt for Batman, Gordon destroys the Bat-signal, Fox watches as the sonar device self-destructs, and Alfred burns a letter from Rachel saying she plans to marry Dent.
Dent将Gordon的家人挟持到楼顶。Gordon赶到后，Dent再次以抛硬币的方式决定Gordon儿子的生死。千钧一发之际，蝙蝠侠赶来扑向Dent，和Dent一起从高楼坠下，Dent离世，这也证明小丑的目的达到了。为保住Dent代表正义的形象，蝙蝠侠将罪责揽到自己身上。警察赶到后开始搜寻蝙蝠侠的踪迹，Gordon将代表维护哥谭正义的蝙蝠侠标志砸毁，Fox在完成任务后开启了监控室的自毁装置，蝙蝠侠管家阿福（Alfred）将Rachel生前送来的信转交给蝙蝠侠，信中Rachel选择了Dent，影片到此结束。
Review by Bleacher：
I love this movie so very much. It feels weird for me to use that word, “love”, but it is the first thing to pop into my mind. The Dark Knight being the epicenter of it all. It is a film that understands the allure of darkness, sees how it can efficiently spread, and then presents us with the facts regarding the realities of honor, strength, and influence and the realities that passions can construct inside of us, the most twisted of all being those see the faults in others’ realities and can link the faults to the endurance of their own self-principles, channeling energy and free thought into the measured manipulation of society. How the citizens of Gotham view Batman and explain their emotions through what he stands for is enough to spark a conversation of its own, especially if one applies how Bruce created this image and how it defines both what he sees in himself and what he sees in others. When The Dark Knight first came out it seemed to excite conversation; what I have observed in the past nine years is that it continues to do so, and the achievements it pulls off in areas across the board doesn’t hurt its chances at being viewed as a milestone in the history of entertainment and art either.
我太爱这部电影了，使用“爱”这个词对我来说可能会很奇怪，但确实是第一个跃入我脑海里的词汇。围绕《黑暗骑士》的系列电影，让观众看到了黑暗深处的魅力，看到了人性的黑暗是如何发酵的，并向观众呈现了荣誉的力量。电影中最扭曲的部分在于让角色看到现实的不公，并用这些不公去挑战此前他们所坚守的原则，从而达到小丑的理想 —— 全社会无政府状态。哥谭市民如何看待蝙蝠侠，如何看待蝙蝠侠这一人物象征，本身就足以成为影片一大探讨内容。在Bruce建立了蝙蝠侠这一形象，并从他的角度定义了自身以及他人以后，这一点尤为凸显。《黑暗骑士》上映后，似乎引起了人们的讨论。据我所知，在过去的九年里，DC一直在这样做，在各个领域都取得不俗成就。但无论从娱乐角度来看，还是从艺术角度来看，这部影片都堪称是里程碑式的经典。
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