"Mystery of the Shadow" is Nolan's early work. As a superhero origin film, the film is 140 minutes long and has a huge amount of information and stories, so that after watching the film for the first time, the audience is likely to have Some places are not fully understood.
However, the great thing about Nolan is that although the audience may not understand every detail after watching the movie, they will still understand the overall plot. When watching a movie, you will be in a state of "slightly overloaded", so that you will not be too tired, but your attention will be firmly grasped on the screen.
And this also has an advantage, because the audience spends a lot of attention when watching the movie, so they will ignore some small issues, such as why the microwave emitting device does not evaporate the moisture of the people on the side. Nolan will also add a lot of information to the picture, such as structured windows and furniture, scenes with complex textures, and various picture movements (bats in the bat cave), etc., so that not only in the plot, but also visually. is exceptionally rich.
So watching Nolan's films is never boring. Because he always has new picture information or story information for you. In addition, Nolan's films also have a very strong sense of realism. For example, in the Batman trilogy, although it is about superheroes, it will make the audience feel that this character is not so much a "hero" as an "ordinary person". And a lot of this comes from the realism of the film.
We can find elements of life that we are familiar with in movies, and superheroes are as vulnerable as ordinary people in movies. Unlike many other superhero movies, the characters are idealized and the characters are made lonely, so that the audience feels separated from them. In fact, deifying superheroes is often not a particularly good practice. Because it is not so much that these films deified the characters, it is better that they did not capture the thoughts of the characters' inner worlds.
For ordinary superhero movies, it is relatively less to portray the theme. Because the main task of these films is often to focus on showing superheroes on the outside and showing their extraordinary abilities. But Nolan did not choose this. In the film, he portrayed heroes as mortals, Gotham as a city that seemed to be everywhere around him, and told Bruce's inner world in the same way as ordinary people. It is very interesting that Bruce Wayne used to be most afraid of bats, but he ended up being the object of bats. "Fear" is the theme of the film, and "bat" is its visual image. Little Bruce, because of his own fear, led to the indirect murder of his parents, which caused him to hate his own fear. But as an adult, he realized he had to overcome this fear, and he chose to become one with the fear.
He let bats fly over his body to his heart's content, and designed his secret base in a bat cave, and he became what he was most afraid of - bats. Because he needs to subdue criminals in the form he fears the most. The poison gas on Naros Island will magnify people's fears, and people will see many situations that terrify them. There is a scene in this section, that is, Batman flying in the sky, with red eyes, it seems very scary.
This is an expression of the theme, when plunged into the darkness and merged with fear, what was once most feared can become a symbol of what frightens the criminal. In fact, Batman is such a hero who walks in the dark. Although we call him a hero, in fact he doesn't look righteous at all. He always appears in the dark and looks hideous. He seems to be the helper of the police. It doesn't matter. He has long since merged with fear, he is the bat in the dark, the image that criminals are afraid of, and he sees no light. But it is he who walks in the dark and protects Gotham City.
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