The relationship between these two premises is unfortunate at best, conflating Bane’s social upheaval with the city’s moral rot. In The Dark Knight Rises, Bane (Tom Hardy) positions himself as a revolutionary who gives the poor the means to overthrow the rich, and who frees those imprisoned under the “Dent Act,” a crime bill that appears to grant the police expanded powers but doesn’t fix infrastructural problems. His target was society’s ethical foundations, and his goal was to prove that even the most upstanding citizens could be corrupted by fear. However, four years earlier, when the series’ concerns were questions of global security, The Joker represented abstract fears of modern terrorism and the resultant moral failings in opposing it. Tenet: The Culmination of a 22-Year Obsession With TimeĪs a follow-up to The Dark Knight, Gotham’s descent into city-wide chaos plays like The Joker’s promise fulfilled.Dunkirk: Wrestling With Time and With History.
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