MOVIE REVIEW: "Dark Knight Rises" 2012
Christopher Nolan, shines his genius across the silver screen once again. Fusing a classic comic book archetype with poetic realism, and cinematic grandeur. The great director heightens the bar for super hero movies in uber fashion.
What makes his movies, especially the Dark Knight trilogy, so great is the ability to give great story, twisted and enticing plot, with thought provoking, juxtaposing social and philosophical messages. Each movie is served as a full television season, crammed in 1 and 1/2 to 2+ hours of cinematic indulgence. Okay, enough hoopla! lol Let's get into movie in itself. lol
Think of this movie as Batman and Bruce Wayne being two COMPLETELY different characters. Looking at it this way gives a better feel for what they go threw. Simply because, from a cinematic perspective, they see themselves as two different people. Both alter-ego's are deeply challenged in this film whereas the vigilante persona of Batman was always targeted under the guise of the iconic Bruce Wayne character, in previous movies and renditions.
"Dark Knight Rises" 2012 brings a humbling sacrilege to all that is holy, story-wise. Batman is defeated, Bruce Wayne is broke, Gotham's elite are deposed, and democracy is mocked by chaotic autonomous communism. All said wrath being hailed by a contrived, calculated, maniacal, muscle-bound scholar in a daunting mask, as though it were designed by the devil himself; Bane.
In my take, Bane is the fulfillment of Joker's wet dream, utopia in "Dark Knight" 2008. As I watched the plot unravel I, eerily, heard Heath Ledger's rasp, saying, "Chaos...it's fair". Over and over again in my head, while awing at Bane's thoughtfully disrespectful schemes. Joker's menacing criminality is juxtaposed by Bane's calculated terrorism. Clearly, Bane was not one who wanted to "watch the world burn" as Alfred so gently put in 2008. If anything, it seemed he wanted put the power in the hands of the people and watch the world burn itself. Unlike the Joker, Bane had a culmination to his schemes, a meaning, a motivation. He wasn't so much driven by the need for chaos, but the need for chaos to bring power. He was simply a step up.
In this blog, I'm refraining from reviewing the performances of the actors. The story and cinematic out act the actors themselves; yet taking nothing away from their talent, experience, and accolade. Kudos to all of them.
Albeit everything said, "Dark Knight" 2008 is my favorite out of the trilogy...and yet "Batman" 1989 is still my favorite of all time (Tim Burton gave that movie so much swag, and not to mention Keaton and Nicholson ripped it). "Dark Knight" 2008 stood alone in incomparable fashion. It's hard not to play a good "Joker" role in any Batman movie and not leave a mark. Maniacal laughter blended with incessant demise is unsettling disturb to anyone's psychology. "Dark Knight Rises"2012 was simply a cherry on top, with substantial story, plot, and climax, and a coup de grace of shock value. No one could have watched this in disappointment.
Comments