[Scott]

Originally Posted by Meanon

I don't know if this was an isolated case, but I know of one person where the Matrix got completely interwoven with their psychosis, to a degree that was very dangerous.
Avoid freaky films when reality is freaky enough

Originally Posted by Duke

I'd agree Scott; if you feel your son is easily influenced by abhorrent behavior in movies then I think your fears of him seeing it are valid. I heard today in one of the previews that this Joker is a troubling character in that how do you fight someone who truly doesn't care?.

Yeah....I think Andrew's gonna pass on this one:

This Joker's weapon of choice is the knife: He carries several, one of which he sticks in his victims' mouths as he tells them stories (all, apparently, lies) of how he got his own "smiling" scars before slicing their faces open. We never see him cut, but the stories—the brutal, mesmerizing stories—are enough. They are more than enough.

That said, I'm not going to detail every bit of violence seen onscreen in this not-really PG-13 movie. ....
What you might not know is that the Joker kills scores of folks, and all the death that surrounds him only seems to brighten his mood. Counting casualties doesn't convey how you might feel as you watch, and how you'll feel walking out when it's over. So I'll put things this way: The Dark Knight is not Iron Man, not Hancock, not even Hellboy II. This is a movie about a cartoon hero. But there's nothing cartoonish about it