[M] The Dark Knight Rises (SPOILERS) - Page 20

IIRC she dies in batman, like, in the cartoon, comics or in some previous movie. I hope she dies in this movie too. that'd be great.
*catwoman, that is. not anne hathaway, sadly.

For example, the whole purpose of the omniscience machine (apart from being some kind of completely unnecessary Deus ex machina to solve a problem that should have been solvable by "the world's greatest detective" via regular investigation) seems to be Lucius Fox's monologue on responsibility and power... after which he proceeds to use the omniscience machine against his better judgement.

The character development - for the lack of a more pejorative term - of Harvey Dent makes no sense. His decision to pretend to be Batman is a big surprise to everybody, but only because he did not bother to tell them about it, for which there was absolutely no reason (apart from not telling the audience in order to create suspense). Likewise, the only reason fo his heel turn from "white knight" to villain seems to be that he must become Two-Face.

The Joker's plans border on the theoretically impossible, and are, without a doubt, practically impossible to pull off using the resources at his disposal. When he eventually reveals his overarching goal, to corrupt Harvey Dent, everybody fails to see that Dent could easily have died. So "do nothing" would have been a perfect countermeasure to combat the Joker.

In the end, Batman decides to take the blame for Dent's murders... again, only for the sake of doing justice to the movie's title. It would have been completely fine to just label the murders as unsolved, or to blame the Joker, or whatever.

First of all, the omniscience machine wasnt a deus ex machina. They were given very, very little time to find the Joker. The only way to be sure to stop 2 boat loads of people blowing up within the time limit would be to use the machine. Maybe someone could have figured it out, but in that situation would you have taken that chance with hundreds of people's lives on the line? That was the utilitarian dilemma the movie makers wanted the audience to think about

Harvey Dent telling people that he was going to pretend to be Batman would have completely ruined everything. He wanted to give the people of Gotham one last chance to demonstrate courage in the face of terror. The people were cowardly, willing to condemn a hero they took for granted because they were scared for their own safety. Dent gave them one last chance at the press conference, but in the end they still wanted Batman's head on a platter. Therefore, he had to spring it on them at the last second. He didnt tell the people he cared about because they would have ruined his cover.

As for the fall of Harvey Dent, he was a proactive guy and firmly believed that one could "make his own luck." Unfortunately for him, he was eventually put into a situation where nothing he would do could help save Rachel. He learned that there are times that you just get screwed by your circumstances and his circumstances included being betrayed by officers he wanted to investigate in the first place. This hard lesson he learned by losing his wife-to-be combined with Gordon's negligence about those officers was enough to turn him from an optimistic go-getter into a pessimistic man looking for revenge.

We dont know what the Joker's resources are, but as the movie progress he gained a lot. The beginning heist didnt require too many resources. Apart from some equipment, he just had to "promise" a bunch of patsies a load of money and take em out one by one. He got away with completely cleaning out a mob bank, which would no doubt give him a shit load of cash. As he gained more and more followers as well, it becomes more believable that he could pull off the things he plans. Gotham is a corrupt city, he could probably very far purely with money at his disposal.

I dont understand the second part of that paragraph about "doing nothing", but Ill do my best. Batman was the only person to learn about Joker wanting to corrupt Dent, so there is no everybody. If he did nothing, Gordons entire family might have died. He might have run around in the city, revealing to everyone that he was responsible for murder. Those actions would undo the years of progress he created. Doing nothing would have ended in disaster.

Marking the murders as "unsolved" isnt a solution. They would only be marked as "unsolved" if they tried an investigation and couldnt solve it. An investigation would have revealed that the murders Dent committed took place while the Joker was pulling the whole Boat Explosion trick, meaning it would be far less likely that the Joker was behind them. Sure, he coulda sent some henchmen, but an investigation would have probably tied connections between the victims and Dent. They could do a coverup or shift the blame, but that would be shaky. Instead, everyone hated Batman already so as shaky as the story would be for Batman committing Dent's murders, the public would have very readily accepted it.

Furthermore, Gordon called for the police to make a perimeter around the area where he and his family were being held by Dent. He didnt tell them what the situation was though. When the police were finally allowed in, they would find their beloved white knight Dent dead and Gordon's family shaken. That would immediately call attention to Dent. Batman had to take the blame for Dent's "murder" and thus he woulda been the prime candidate to take the blame for all the murders Dent committed as well