The Dark Knight Rises, or: This Is What Liberalism Gets You, Hippies

[starlingthefool]

Here is my two-line, spoiler-free synopsis of The Dark Knight Rises:

The 1%'s nightmarish vision of what would have happened if the Occupy Wall Street movement had succeeded. Big Daddy Batman must save them all.

Comments

[silentsiren47]

I think it's pretty interesting how the view of humanity changed from the last movie to this one. In The Dark Knight, we see prisoners and citizens unwilling to destroy one another. In this movie, we see presumably the same people, eight years older, happily joining a warlord and participating in the slaughter of others. It was an incredibly cynical movie, and part of me wants to examine how Nolan's politics may have changed since 2008.

[starlingthefool]

Y'know, I really hadn't considered that. That is interesting, for sure.

[starlingthefool]

Yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, what the hell did happen? CHRISTOPHER NOLAN GOT INCEPTED.

[silentsiren47]

Ha, I'm thinking it may be a pre-Obama-post-Obama issue. I'm totally making assumptions about his politic affiliations, but I wonder if Nolan was on of those people who truly thought Obama would CHANGE EVERYTHING for the better, and that turned to cynicism when it's still our same crappy world 4 years later.

[starlingthefool]

I'm not really up for trying to analyze what this movie says about Christopher Nolan's personal politics, and I know that movie studios and producers usually have just as much say in the final product of a film, but I'm still boggled. Nolan's films are usually a lot more subtle.