This is a brand new factory sealed 2-disc special edition with the O-ring slipsleeve dust jacket printed on chromium card stock. Digital copy is long expired.

The citizens of Gotham City are in an uproar, calling Batman a vigilante and blaming him for the deaths of policemen and others. The key performance in the movie is by the late Heath Ledger, the first posthumous Oscar winner since Peter Finch. His actions are fiendishly designed to pose moral dilemmas for his enemies. Throughout the film, he devises ingenious situations that force Batman, Commisioner Gordon, and District Attorney Harvey Dent to make impossible ethical descisions, like 'Jigsaw' did in the 'Saw' films.

He seeks revenge, he claims, for the horrible punishments his father exacted on him as a child.  The plot involves nothing more than the Joker's attempts to humiliate the powers of good and expose Batman's secret identity showing him to be a poseur and a fraud.

He includes Gordon and Dent on his target list, and contrives cruel psychological tricks to play with the fact that Bruce Wayne once loved, and now Harvey Dent loves, Assistant D.A. Rachel Dawes. The tricks are more cruel than he realizes, because the Joker doesn't know Batman's identity.

Heath Ledger's Joker is psychologically more complex, outlining the dilemmas he has constructed and explaining his reasons for them. Two of the supporting characters are crucial to the action, Morgan Freeman as the scientific genius Lucius Fox, is in charge of Bruce Wayne's underground headquarters and makes an ethical objection to a method of eavesdropping on all the citizens of Gotham City.

Michael Caine is the faithful butler Alfred and makes a deciscion about a crucial letter. In one diabolical scheme near the end of the film, the Joker invites two ferry-loads of passengers to blow up the other before they are blown up themselves.