The Dark Knight Returns is an excellent film if you can approach it as a story told by an unreliable narrator working in bad faith to encourage a national forgetting and reactionary realignment of the wider population.
When I watch it, it is a tragedy about platonic love and rebellion, with Bane as the hero: the loving protector who set gotham free from state and capital all for the now-grown child he raised and saved from a literal hell, only for a maniacal, fascist billionaire to imprison the people once again and escape to a life of idle travel with the revolutionary he seduced away from the movement.
I watch all capeshit with this lens and it's a great exercise for the creative within.
Having just watched it for the first time recently, it seems to me like Bane was straight simping for the lady and was just doing as she wanted for whatever reason. Although I will say that the twist was some hackneyed and predictable shit, the reveal was just totally underwhelming. The whole movie feels pretty slick and then its just weird and horseshit as Bane takes over the city.
Returns is old bats, which Rises took some inspiration from.
Honestly to make Rises good, all you gotta do is change Bane from planning on blowing up the city with nukes no matter what happened to it just being a threat to keep military out.
The Dark Knight Returns is an excellent film if you can approach it as a story told by an unreliable narrator working in bad faith to encourage a national forgetting and reactionary realignment of the wider population.
When I watch it, it is a tragedy about platonic love and rebellion, with Bane as the hero: the loving protector who set gotham free from state and capital all for the now-grown child he raised and saved from a literal hell, only for a maniacal, fascist billionaire to imprison the people once again and escape to a life of idle travel with the revolutionary he seduced away from the movement.
I watch all capeshit with this lens and it's a great exercise for the creative within.
DKR is a perfect example of the writers realising the bad guy is actually 100% correct and making him do something evil for no reason.
Like, they rise up and start punishing rich people for being horrid but then Bane wants to nuke Gotham for no reason as well. Why?
Having just watched it for the first time recently, it seems to me like Bane was straight simping for the lady and was just doing as she wanted for whatever reason. Although I will say that the twist was some hackneyed and predictable shit, the reveal was just totally underwhelming. The whole movie feels pretty slick and then its just weird and horseshit as Bane takes over the city.
Rises.
Returns is old bats, which Rises took some inspiration from.
Honestly to make Rises good, all you gotta do is change Bane from planning on blowing up the city with nukes no matter what happened to it just being a threat to keep military out.
the show trials with the scarecrow are a bit much
and this essay is a decent takedown
Hey, class traitors and bourgeoisie getting trials is more than they can expect in my revolution.