If you haven’t seen Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, then you should! But my advice is to watch from the initiation of the installment which is Batman Begin in order to comprehend the whole idea of the epic closing. If you feel lazy, well a few flashback details can’t hurt you, I supposed.
I’m not a DC fanboy nor a Marvel’s. I am moviefora, ‘all the good movies’ fan. But if you find a ‘popcorn’ entertainment, with “punch line slash hi-tech action slash punch line” formula, better be lower your standard, or simply go watch the Avengers. I watched the Stark’s gang without expectation, fun in the process, sleep tight that night, and forgot in the following day. Yet different sensation is offered in TDKR. In a line with previous Nolan’s works, it is absolutely dark movie with intense storytelling, hyper-reality suspense and surprises. Rather than to seek joy, watching TDKR and its brothers is intended to enjoy the tortures to human psychology. This is why they omit ‘Batman’ word in the movie title since it is not designed for young audiences. The hero is visualized as weak, vulnerable, in despair and is signified as the ‘bad' guy: while the antagonist is strong, unbeatable, and righteously forces to amend the law should be pure and raw, not based on lies (as Batman and Jim Gordon conspired in Harvey Dent’s death in TDK). This is modified implementation of Aristotle’s Mimesis and Jean Baudrillard’s theory of Hyper-reality. It brings confusion to the audience though Bruce Wayne's intention was good, yet can his outlaw action be justified? The ‘purging effect’ comes after pity and fear. As it could be enjoy sweetly right on the ‘dénouement’ phase. It brought me tears of joy as well as pain when the movie ends. And sadly, it made me wide awake tonight. I missed Gotham already.
Detached from the movie, many fans stormed out. Flaming on every bad review written for this movie. I can’t agree on verbal aggression though. Yet I have to disagree with the critic who said that the terror caused by Heath Ledger’s (deceased) Joker in The Dark Knight was way much better than all the threats the TDKR combined. I can’t see the point of negative review by comparing acting quality with the dead. What must be appreciated, I think, is Nolan has successfully maintained his quality in movie-directing. Many big-budgeted movie franchises (non-novel adaptation) has flopped its level as we saw in Transformer 2 and Transformer 3. And It took 4 years to finish this installment, proof that Nolan’s idealism in making a fine masterpiece is not merely money orientation, but also his idealism as movie engineer. And it is obvious that the director’s darlings that are predicted to constantly cooperate in his future film are the finest as Christian Bale (the Prestige, Batman Begin, TDK, TDKR) Marion Cotillard (Inception, TDKR) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception , TDKR).
Although I can say it’s 90/100 rated movie, no movie is perfect. I have, again, to detest Hollywood commodification of women, especially for their roles in the TDKR. I can't explain further as it will spoil the crucial plot, sorry. But In the end, after watching The Dark Knight Rises, I made myself not only Batman’s fans yet to be Nolan’s as well. Bravo!
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