Gotham may have been the best city to be built and The Dark
Knight is its greatest protector. With the kind of buildings, infrastructure,
facilities and technology, one would imagine Gotham to be a city belonging to
USA. But, what Bane brought upon suggests something else. One could imagine the
city of Moscow, Petrograd, Shanghai, Beijing, etc. to have faced the same kind
of abuse a few decades ago.
Although Bane was going to destroy the complete city he gave
hope to the people of Gotham. He gave hope in the form of power to decide for
themselves. These strategies replicate the ones adopted by the Communists at
helm during the 1920 until the Berlin Wall fell. They gave people the hope that
everyone gets an equal share of everything irrespective of how good/bad you
were. Unlike Bane, the Communists of yesteryears didn’t have an iota of idea
that they were destroying the human mind in the name of Communism. There was a
Nuclear Fusion bomb that was ticking while its equivalent in real time was
poverty and human degradation.
The way Gotham was looted by normal beings, sky-rocketing
crime-rates, power in the hands of the people who in the first place hated the
powerful reminisces the old Communist days. Surely, Nolan has more to his movie
than what a trained eye can see. But, this part of integrating a political
theory onto the movie and finishing off in style is what he is always best at.
I wish to hear if Nolan was inspired by Ayn Rand’s “We the living”. If so, he
has been truly inspired and that reflects in each of the scene that he has
sculpted. The dark knight did rise high!
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