Back in 2005, in "Batman Prequel 1: Mystery of the Shadow of the Shadow", a young man who had witnessed his parents being killed by gangsters had no special abilities and no genetic mutation. Even when he was in self-imposed exile, his Wan Guan's family wealth didn't help much either. He trained hard among a bunch of cult lunatics, and finally returned to his hometown of Gotham City to stand up for justice. Such a heroic growth trajectory can not only touch the audience, but also together with the concept between him and the villain. Games are all meaningful ideological puzzles. 2008's "Batman Prequel 2: The Dark Knight" took "human suspense" to a higher level: a sinister and cunning "Joker", all the way down to the bottom line of human nature, he united the gang on the grounds of killing Batman Around himself, he constantly stimulated Harvey Dent and Batman, the two "incarnations of justice", and even hoped that Harvey Dent would kill himself and Batman would kill himself. Because in this way, they lost the bottom line like him, and the world obeyed his clown's logic - "Who doesn't want justice when they have to?" "With a little push, anyone will become me."
So the superhero stories that were originally thin and ethereal have become full of connotation by adding the torture of human nature and the heroes who are both bright and dark. For example, when we talk about evil, what are we talking about, "They just find it interesting. They will not be Buying, not being intimidated, not being reasonable, and not accepting negotiation, some people just want to watch the world end." Another example is chatting about desire, "What they are interested in is not money, power, fame and fortune, etc. that can be seen and touched. What they want is influence, and they want to impose their will on the world, and this is a criminal with taste.”
Four years later, as the finale of the “Dark Trilogy”, “Batman: Episode 3: In The Dark Knight Rises, Batman is really at stake.
After eight years of peace, a more terrifying figure descended on Gotham City, and he was Bane. If the irrational clown just wants to see the world tumble into chaos and go to ruin, Bane is like a symphony conductor enjoying the most flamboyant horrific movements. Bane's goal is simple: kill Batman and turn Gotham into ruins! To this end, he meticulously formulated a huge and extremely destructive plan, and implemented it step by step for the camp. In line with his ambitions, his enormous incitement and ability to organize and coordinate. If Bane can succeed, Gao Tan City will fall into the abyss of hell with a devastating revolution! The Joker, who used his scheming as his selling point, exited the stage, and his new opponent "Destroyer" Bane was called "both inside and outside" - he was not only good at calculating, he had to control every detail, weaving ambitions step by step, at the same time, He is strong and muscular, and he is still full of evil spirits wearing a mask. In Nolan's words, "he is Batman's true opponent."
Compared with the absurd tragedy of alienation into a beetle in Kafka's "Metamorphosis", Nolan Lan obviously prefers the epic pattern of ancient Greece: even victory, victory must be tragic. Usually for villains, according to the narrative routine of Hollywood commercial movies, Bane must have lost. Even if he has extraordinary fighting ability and high IQ, he will not be able to resist the protests of tens of millions of fans. However, Nolan still played a small trick. In "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises", although Bane lost, the Joker quietly won. We should still remember the game of humanity played by the Joker in The Dark Knight on the passengers of the two ships: the explosives on the other ship must be detonated first, so that their own ship will not be blown up, but no one chooses to keep themselves. While we are still sighing over the victory of human nature, in this finale, someone finally made this ambiguous choice and let people sigh: they cut off the last escape route for a risky bet of Bain . If the clown is still there, I am afraid, I will be proud again.
Honestly, I'm not happy with Bane's image. I still don't understand why he shed tears in the end, that line of shallow tears drowned out all the heroics before. Nolan's reversal of sensationalism, at least I can't accept it at all, it may be blinded by darkness. Bain has a line, "Despair is not terrible, but the despair played with hope is the most terrible". The confrontation may no longer be physical destruction, but spiritual defeat. People's fear no longer comes from primitive instinct, but waits and prepares for the tremor from the heart. An inappropriate analogy is like the pain of waiting for the anesthesia to come off, only knowing that it will be painful, but you just don't know when it will come. The collection of these fears is enough to destroy a city.
Of course, "The Dark Knight Rises" is not a perfect work. Apart from Tom Hardy's performance, it is not as good as Heath Ledger's swan song in "The Dark Knight", because the climax focuses on the relationship between Batman and Bane. The hand-to-hand combat in the city hall makes the film lack the tension of the life-and-death battle on the high-speed rail in "The Mystery of the Shadow", and also lacks the scene in "The Dark Knight" in which the clown chases Harvey Dent in the police car. Nervous, but close to the fight of ordinary people. The soundtrack constantly sets off the plot and characters in the first half. Unfortunately, in the second half, that is, after Bruce Wayne was thrown into prison, Hans Zimmer constantly wanted to use the soundtrack to set off the characters' situation, Heart, but the soaring soundtrack takes over from time to time. In any case, Nolan has handed in an answer sheet that satisfies the audience.
And the sad-faced knight, who used to walk alone in the dark night, is now accompanied by Catwoman. This is what he really longs for.
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