Batman: The Dark Knight met and exceeded all of my expectations. It was beautifully crafted and the cast was amazing. It did not just revolve around Bruce Wayne/ Batman, but also revolved around Harvey Dent, The Joker, and Lt. James Gordon. This movie did not stray away from the plot at hand like some other films tend to do when there ends up being more than one villain. It followed each character carefully. Brilliant movie. Its success is not because of Heath Ledger and his death, but because of the amazing plot and cast. Heath Ledger brings a little laughter into the movie with his wonderful lines that one will never forget to quote. Harvey Dent's Two-Face was not what anyone in the audience was expecting because it was much darker than the Two-Face we all remember played by Tommy Lee Jones. Everything is darker in this movie, but it still shows the struggle every individual has between good and evil. Even the citizens and inmates of Gotham are confronted with saving themselves or the others and both groups choose to save the other. This shows hope in the fact that every person still has some good in them no matter what the situation. Harvey Dent was the one good person in Gotham, who ended up falling to evil when the one thing he loved was taken away from him. I think that the music will be one of those scores that people will recognize instantly. Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard have made music to remember.