One of the most powerful moments in the movie The Dark Night is the opening sequence.

In this scene, we find the Joker orchestrating a clockwork precision bank heist.

As the robbery plays out though, we discover there's something else altogether going on.

And this bank heist also becomes a statement of what the Joker stands for, for chaos, or rather more specifically an upside

down clown hierarchy.

This scene is one of the most succinct portrayals ever made of a revolution.

It can help us understand contemporary phenomena like cancel culture and other upside-down

structures, which like the serpent of chaos always end up devouring themselves.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

The scene follows a group of robbers in clown masks. The spoils are supposed to be separated equitably to the group, but each of the participants

think that they're in on a little secret.

When the first robber finishes his job with the alarm, the one responsible for opening the

vault kills him shot in the back.

Then as the Volk guy is doing what he's there for, he tells the next robber whose job

it is to fill up the money bags that the boss told me, when the guy was done, take him

out.

One less share, right?

Of course, the money bag guy has been told a similar story.

So when the vault is open, he takes out his collaborator as well. At this point,

the money bag guy thinks he's figured it out. So in order to stop the dominoes from falling,

decides to take things into his own hands. Joker quote, if he kills the next guy before the

next guy kills him, he'll be okay, right?

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