It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but I don't see why he even needed a ploy and couldn't have just blown up the city as soon as he had the bomb.
As in, I get that it's anti-communist propaganda, but I'm trying to figure out how that even works with the plot, unless Nolan has really just fallen that far that he can't even make it make sense.
Taking down the stock market, freeing the prisoners, and trying the CEOs was just a ploy covering up his real goal of blowing up the city.
Because no one will ever actually advocate for those things as anything but a smokescreen, you see. Anticommunist propaganda 101
It's been a while since I've seen the movie, but I don't see why he even needed a ploy and couldn't have just blown up the city as soon as he had the bomb.
As in, I get that it's anti-communist propaganda, but I'm trying to figure out how that even works with the plot, unless Nolan has really just fallen that far that he can't even make it make sense.