I kind of get frustrated when people bring up all these internet critics that I've either never heard of or have only a vague idea about and expect me to understand their review of X as a frame of reference.
John Solomon was a guy who posted reviews of webcomics for a few years, then deleted his blog, then somehow got canonized.
Bane is a social Darwinist from the outset, and his whole anarchist schtick is from the outset pretty clearly about something less noble than the redistribution of wealth.
I read that, in the scene where he addresses the crowd at the football stadium, Bane's coat looks like some kind of farmer's jacket—but the actual costume is a custom-tailored, one-of-a-kind, $3000 article of clothing. A fitting symbol, I think.
I will go as far as saying that the message of a work, unless it is particularly deplorable, is usually less important than how the work is constructed.
Bane is a social Darwinist from the outset, and his whole anarchist schtick is from the outset pretty clearly about something less noble than the redistribution of wealth.
I read that, in the scene where he addresses the crowd at the football stadium, Bane's coat looks like some kind of farmer's jacket—but the actual costume is a custom-tailored, one-of-a-kind, $3000 article of clothing. A fitting symbol, I think.
p much all major movie clothing is bespoke, and that is actually totally in the ballpark for a high end leather jacket (*good leather jackets start at 6-700 new, with something like Rick Owens biker jacket hitting around 2,500*)
How about long, melancholy nights drinking whiskey into the wee hours of the morning?
Hell yes.
Make it Scotch and we would listen to old swing records and read Baudelaire and Burroughs. It would be the best stream-of-consciousness novel of the new millennium so far.
That said, my misadventures with the beau shall be an epic romance crossed with a slice-of-life comedy with some darkly erotic passages and it will be a classic of modern literature.
I totally agree that there's absolutely no thematic through-line,
Unintended consequences. If you start something, then let it persist past its natural end, it changes into a decrepit shadow of its former self, or something else entirely. Missions begun with the best of intentions can be subverted to evil ends. Schemes begun with the worst intentions can be subverted for good.
The characters don't comment on it at all, but that underlies nearly the entire plot.
How about long, melancholy nights drinking whiskey into the wee hours of the morning?
Hell yes.
Make it Scotch and we would listen to old swing records and read Baudelaire and Burroughs. It would be the best stream-of-consciousness novel of the new millennium so far.
I totally agree that there's absolutely no thematic through-line,
Unintended consequences. If you start something, then let it persist past its natural end, it changes into a decrepit shadow of its former self, or something else entirely. Missions begun with the best of intentions can be subverted to evil ends. Schemes begun with the worst intentions can be subverted for good.
The characters don't comment on it at all, but that underlies nearly the entire plot.
I disagree. The theme changes on a dime; there's no underlying, consistent theme to anything. It's all moment-to-moment drama with no foundation.
Hell, not only do the characters not comment on it, but the characters are in no way an expression of that theme. The closest it ever came to expressing it to any meaningful extent was in the previous movie.
I totally agree that there's absolutely no thematic through-line,
Unintended consequences. If you start something, then let it persist past its natural end, it changes into a decrepit shadow of its former self, or something else entirely. Missions begun with the best of intentions can be subverted to evil ends. Schemes begun with the worst intentions can be subverted for good.
The characters don't comment on it at all, but that underlies nearly the entire plot.
I disagree. The theme changes on a dime; there's no underlying, consistent theme to anything. It's all moment-to-moment drama with no foundation.
I actually think that Meta has a pretty good point there. There are a scant few themes that the movie does have running through it, even if they are obscured, and things coming full circle is one of them. You start something and you take it far enough and eventually the snake eats its own tail. Within liberators are the seeds of reaction; within destruction there is rebirth. It's basically the only big motif running through every big event in the movie, really, this death/rebirth thing.
But it's not at all deliberate. It's an interpretation, and an interesting one, but I ask you to actually watch the movie and see if it's a genuine thematic through-line. Christopher Nolan is very obvious with what he theme he intends to express when he has one, and the theme you suggested would be too buried in subtext if it were intentional for me to believe it is.
But it's not at all deliberate. It's an interpretation, and an interesting one, but I ask you to actually watch the movie and see if it's a genuine thematic through-line. Christopher Nolan is very obvious with what he theme he intends to express when he has one, and the theme you suggested would be too buried in subtext if it were intentional for me to believe it is.
Man, the whole Bane plot and the back-breaking and Catwoman and Batman burying their identities and the crazy death-cult and the weird fasho people's court and whatshisface going from cop to maybe-superhero - the whole thing's one big overstuffed "phoenix from the ashes" metaphor theme meal.
The problem is that Nolan wanted to present every other thing that popped into his head because I guess death/rebirth-as-transcendence ain't deep enough?
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
but i have something of an unshakeable disheveled, eccentric sort of quality which would be at odds with such a garment
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