[BRIEF NOTE] On The Dark Knight Rises
Jul. 30th, 2012 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldAfter I caught The Dark Knight Rises Friday with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
suitablyemoname, the consensus was that the final film in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy was a solid eight out of ten, inevitably and unfairly suffering a bit via the inevitable comparisons with 2008's amazing The Dark Knight, fairly suffering a bit more from the sheer density of plot crammed into the three hours of film. The plot was compelling, though, directed well--intelligently, creatively, even with a sense of humour. Nolan's recurring actor collaborators, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy joining Michael Caine and Christian Bale and Gary Oldman, did excellent jobs, Anne Hathaway additionally doing a good job in creating a new iconic Catwoman capable of standing up to Michelle Pfeiffer's version in 1992's Batman Returns.
But the movie had me thinking about the implications of the plot.
In the film, the largest city in the United States--Gotham City, its timeline's New York City analogue, home to twelve million people--is taken over by terrorists who institute a reign of terror, destroying Gotham City's government and wrecking the legitimacy of the institutions that survive, holding the city hostage with a nuclear bomb while lynch mobs execute the city's rich. Eventually the city is freed, but a four-megaton nuclear explosion nonetheless occurs just off its Atlantic coastline
What on Earth would happen to the United States, or the world? I shudder to imagine the economic ramifications of the whole affair, never mind the political ones (the President is not going to get re-elected).
Thoughts?
suitablyemoname, the consensus was that the final film in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy was a solid eight out of ten, inevitably and unfairly suffering a bit via the inevitable comparisons with 2008's amazing The Dark Knight, fairly suffering a bit more from the sheer density of plot crammed into the three hours of film. The plot was compelling, though, directed well--intelligently, creatively, even with a sense of humour. Nolan's recurring actor collaborators, Marion Cotillard and Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Tom Hardy joining Michael Caine and Christian Bale and Gary Oldman, did excellent jobs, Anne Hathaway additionally doing a good job in creating a new iconic Catwoman capable of standing up to Michelle Pfeiffer's version in 1992's Batman Returns.But the movie had me thinking about the implications of the plot.
In the film, the largest city in the United States--Gotham City, its timeline's New York City analogue, home to twelve million people--is taken over by terrorists who institute a reign of terror, destroying Gotham City's government and wrecking the legitimacy of the institutions that survive, holding the city hostage with a nuclear bomb while lynch mobs execute the city's rich. Eventually the city is freed, but a four-megaton nuclear explosion nonetheless occurs just off its Atlantic coastline
What on Earth would happen to the United States, or the world? I shudder to imagine the economic ramifications of the whole affair, never mind the political ones (the President is not going to get re-elected).
Thoughts?
