At the end of "The Dark Knight Rises", when The Bat took the nuclear bomb and flew towards the river, a familiar and sad female voice sang in the background, reminding me of "Starting War" At the end of "The Moment", in the ashes of Wayne's house, Bruce once picked up a small box containing his father's past stethoscope. His father was a doctor, he healed patients while being a rich man, but now Bruce inherited his father's will, but
the target of his treatment is "Gotham City." For me, this belief (and they sacrificed themselves) is proof that this series echoes from end to end. What is a hero? Christopher Nollah answered this question with the length of three movies, but I think for Bruce, his father is his hero.
Not so exaggerated, not so without retreat, unable to express how deep my breath, my breath is. It can't explain why I was disappointed. After watching "Dawn Rises" for two full days, I can only sigh and say: It can be better. Two years after "Full Launch", what I look forward to is a higher density of wisdom light, a magic narrative that challenges the audience's understanding, and a larger number of Nolan's signature "silent flashbacks and multi-line interweaving" magical temperament (this is in "The Beginning of War" It’s used so beautifully, it’s less in "The Dark Knight"), and as a result, "Dawn Rises" is flat and straightforward. All disasters (whether in Gotham City or Bruce) are straightforward and unanswered-
this of course brings out My second loss is that in the last four years of "The Dark Knight", I look forward to seeing even more outstanding depictions of brutality/maliciousness, but Bane is far less "fun" than the Joker. He is a character who is both realistic and oppressive in drama. Tom Hardy, with his figure and body, and with a hell black dragon-like tone and drama, props up an unshakable rock; his face mask is like Time Magazine. Richard Coris described it as: It's like the mechanical version of "facehugger" in "Alien", as if a monster is really trapped inside him. He is not just crazy and chaotic, he is the end itself (I'm Gotham's reckoning).
But also because of this, he was too perfect, perfect without flaws, and thoroughly disciplined, so he couldn't be fun. Like the clown, Bann used radical anarchism to disrupt Gotham’s order, but the clown enjoyed the process itself and broke people’s “bestness” while laughing. He tortured Bruce and Harvey Dante’s heart, and finally took it away. Their "names"; on the other hand, Bann is very practical. He doesn't have too many paradoxes (or paradoxes). His blow to Bruce is to take away all his material possessions and give the body the most painful hair and skin. The citizens of Gotham, he wants them to suffer and then be destroyed. The so-called overthrow of classes and revolutionary rebirth are just a cover, inciting hatred and torture.
Bann is meticulous, and the viewer's eyes are straight. This sense of oppression is one-way, and there is not much humanity and (the victim thinks) choices in it, so I say that this disaster has no answer. "Bruce's knot and redemption, the existence and symbol of Batman, the fall and recovery of Gotham City, the test or choice of humanity"-before entering the theater that day, I wrote these four items on paper, any one A hero movie has only one of these qualities to be called excellent. These are exactly what "War Hour" and "The Dark Knight" have given us. Now, "Dawn Rising" has only done three of them, and the "human struggle/moral dilemma" that made "The Dark Knight" promoted to the classics has not been played here. There is no psychological, psychoanalytic or sociological dialectics, which has weakened the whole The conflict is profound. There are so many new characters in the character part. Just set up the stage and turn them around. It takes a lot of space. Especially Joseph Gordon Levy’s detective scene is so long. I even hope that he will give it to Catwoman. From the technological side. Look, there are almost no surprises other than the Bat fighter. The fighter's flying roll and shelling, and the surprise is even less than the appearance of the Batpod (and this time the locomotive is very impressive! The roll-over wheel steering) The function of "The Dark Knight" was only a glimpse, this time at the feet of Serena); In terms of combat skills, Batman only relies on head-to-head martial arts and does not have any splendid equipment (think "Darkness" The building battle at the end of "Knight"), this is too boring and boring, right?
So...so what should I do? Is this the end of this article?
Of course it is impossible. If you are familiar enough with my readers, you probably haven't seen this yet, and you have noticed something wrong. In fact, at the moment of writing this paragraph, I just went to watch the second "Dark Knight: Dawn Rise" and came back, and tonight, when the golden seven minutes that was the finale of the series opened, I was so stunned. I started to cry madly. This is not just moving, this is my dream come true: it turns out I was wrong. My eyes are wrong, my mentality is wrong. Before entering the theater for the first time, I waited for four years to get something completely different, but on this screen, Nolan and his brother wanted to tell a more worthwhile story. Not what I wanted most, but the most worthwhile of this series. So this article-sorry, it's just about to begin now.
The first time I watched "Dawn Rises", what surprised me from the beginning was the background setting: Eight years after "The Dark Knight", the entire city blamed Dante for Batman's death. I'll know the end of the previous one. But not only that, Batman has since retired, and Bruce Wayne also sealed himself in a deep house, and never showed up again. At the beginning I thought he would continue to be a "black knight" who punishes evil and suffers from the enemy. I didn't expect this to be the meaning of Nolan. In the first part of the film, I was adjusting the distance, watching the beard and beard leaning on crutches. Skinny Bruce, like a strange relative. It took forty-five minutes of the film to go on tour for the first time that night, and it made me feel like "the movie has finally started".
This is my confession. Because two days of turmoil made me understand: As the finale of this series, "Dawn Rises", its biggest purpose is to let Batman/Bruce Wayne return to a "person" and to depict his most human nature. Think about the solid motives of "The Hour of War" and the pain of the heart of "The Dark Knight"-isn't this the reason why this hero is not "super" but makes us even more beloved? The beginning of "Dawn Rising" reminds you that Bruce is also a human being, a mortal body, so that short year’s battle is enough to make him wounded, (remember that there is a scene in "The Dark Knight" where he stitches a wound on himself Did you think about it at the beginning: how can this be tolerated for a long time?) Now he has lived in seclusion for eight years. He is not only weak and depressed, but also tired. Very convincing (rather than just popping up a villain who "the screenwriter says is strong").
When he is thrown into the regeneration pool (Lazarus Pit, adapted from an ancient well in the comics that really has the effect of resurrection), no one will doubt "How can Batman lose so thoroughly?" This is where the script uses the right strength. . The whole "Dawn Rising" is a V character from fall, comprehension to rise (although it is not a shocking W like "The Dark Knight"), and the first part of it is very successful. . So the next question is: What happened in that ancient well?
We know from "The Hour of War" that Bruce's heart lies in the death of his parents, but what makes him embark on a heroic road is the reality of society being eroded into the bones and the rule of law ineffective. He wants to inherit his father's will to save the city, while his opponents, The League of Shadows and Ra's al Ghul, want to destroy Gotham in order to "rebirth in the ashes." "Dawn Rising" obviously wants to deduct all of this, so it not only designed a well-understood epiphany about fear/will to survive, but also directly linked to the theme of "War Begins" using fear as a power/using fear as a weapon, as well as the master ninja’s The descendants are the mastermind of this trip.
And I have to say: (This is irrefutable) Miranda Tate played by Mary Wing Cordia is a painful foot in the script of "Dawn Rises". The paleness and fast food of this role make her just a tool , It turns out the ghost card at the end of the play to become Talia al Ghul's fuze. This reversal came too late, it was obvious that it was a burst point, and people only had time to be astonished and figure out the situation, and it was too late to appreciate its evil spirit. Imagine: If she was allowed to show her true face earlier and rule Gotham City with Bann, would there be a richer rivalry?
But the script is the script and the story is the story. I will say the other way around: I really like the arrangement of Thalia, the "daughter of the ninja master", and I also like Bruce’s encounter in that well—whether it is the master’s apparition. The reminiscences of "The Beginning of War", or the blindness and subsequent revelation of "children" (the difference between memories and the truth, which was just played in "Full Start") are all beautiful and interesting, but the master lost his wife and is concerned about the truth. The passing of hindsight made him even more so when he said to Bruce that "your father’s fault was your father’s fault because he failed to act (fail to act) and lacked the will to act (will to act)." The whole thing shined. stand up. Even more exquisite: through the comparison between Talia and Bruce, the story is faintly arranged into two sets of contrasts. Ninja masters, fathers and daughters are dedicated to destroying Gotham, and Wayne and his sons are dedicated to protecting Gotham; the masters used to "The Great Depression" attacked Gotham, but "underestimated the kind people like Thomas Wayne." Thalia came to Gotham to avenge her father and also to prove herself to her father-this That's why Bruce wore a bat suit in the first place.
Look at that well again. "The Hour of War" depicts that the young Bruce fell into a well, and his father hung down to save him. The bat he saw in the well became the cause of fear for a lifetime; as for Thalia, who was born in the well, climbed out on her own. , She learned the power of survival from the beginning, when her father hung back into the well with her, it was already for revenge.
Even going to the outside: Ah Fu is the backing who knows Bruce the best, is the closest and most supportive of him, and is the caregiver of his parents who gave him the guts. In this way, the corresponding supporting role turns out to be Bann, even though he is not affected by his father. Acknowledged, but he is the guardian of Thalia, the backer and greatest general in carrying out the plan. Ah Fu retired just after the third of "Dawn Rising", and Bann had just begun to show off his skills. The structure of these two groups of three people is the brilliant writing of this story.
And I'm going to say: What brought "Dawn Rising" back to my heart is the way it ended this legend. This is also the biggest intention of the Nolan brothers. This story is not complicated, but the more you think about it afterwards, the more interesting it is, and the more closely integrated with the previous work: In the middle of "Dawn Rises", when Lucius first mentioned the "nuclear bomb", I secretly called " It’s not good" (I used to compare Nolan Urasawa with Naoki Urasawa in the article "Full Start", but I didn’t expect that there was also an "anti-yang bomb" here!) This is not good. At the end Batman said to Serena "You support on the ground, I'm fighting in the air", it turned into a wailing: "No way! Don't use the trick of'flying high in the sky, sacrificing and exploding'!"
Fortunately, this is just a cover. When "Dawn Rises" bursts all energy at once in the last seven minutes, it achieves a perfect endgame, which is composed of three puzzle pieces: "Batman's Death", "Bruce's Rebirth", and "Heir Rises" ". This also makes me truly understand its philosophy.
Next, I have to recall a few classic dialogues. In "The Hour of War", the ninja master once said, "If you make yourself more than just a person, and turn yourself into the embodiment of faith, you will become a legend (If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, then you become something else entirely: a legend.)” And then in a dialogue on the plane, Bruce also explained Batman’s intention to Afu: “As a symbol, I can become Can’t be knocked down, can’t be blackened, so it can last forever (as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.)" As for wearing a mask, Afu thinks it is to "protect what you care about." People are not subject to revenge and harm (this symbol is a persona to protect those you care about from reprisals.)";
At the end of "The Dark Knight", it is the most important dialogue between Gordon and Batman: about the citizens of Gotham "deserves hope (even if you have to live in lies) because sometimes the truth isn't good enough (sometimes the truth isn't good) enough, sometimes people deserve more, they deserve to have their faith rewarded.)" He gave up being a hero and committed murder, let alone what Harvey said: "If you don’t die as a hero, then Will live long enough to see yourself become the villain (you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.)"
"The Dark Knight" makes Batman "live and see yourself become the villain." It is its most superb tragic power, and it is also a blow that can make Bruce depressed and lose the will to survive. What about "Dawn Rising"? In fact, in previous interviews, Nolan said that they "did when filming "The Dark Knight", they had already figured out if they wanted to shoot the third episode, in what way they would end the whole series." That was about the bad actors and the story. The outline was decided before there was any shadow. This is why the second time I watched it suddenly made me clear: "Dawn Rises" is a strongly "conclusion-oriented" story. If you push back from the direction of the final game, the whole script has a solid motivation. I have complained about the role distribution of the characters above, but you already know that I'm acting stupid after reading this. In fact, it is the three important supporting characters who made the three-piece ending jigsaw of "Dawn Rising":
let's talk about the "heirs" first. Specially opened a secondary line to let Joseph Gordon Levy’s Detective Blake grow up, and even confess his orphanage background, let him know, interact with Bruce, pass on, plus a clear understanding of the limits of the rule of law-first look at me I didn't think much about it, I just thought "Why are you not Batman with so many scenes!" In the end, the last sentence "Robin" made me light up: the intention of this script is so cute!
This reminds me that Bruce is just a mortal trained in martial arts, and Gordon Levy’s concentration, passion, courage, and "young hard work" (a closer look will reveal that even he refused to use a gun to perform) all made "Dawn" "Rising" adds a third more persuasive concept to the series' new concept of "Batman can be anyone". Bruce said that "Gotham needs a hero who can show his face", but he doesn't understand that showing his face means danger. Now he understands: a hero needs a mask to protect the people around him, and there can be any face under the mask. . When Blake finally stood up in the cave where the swarms of bats flew, and reproduced the most heart-wrenching scene of "The Hour of War", I realized the reason why I witnessed the continuation of the legend. This is also the most important confidence that Bruce can let go of everything.
So in the second paragraph, I have to talk about his "rebirth". The beginning of "Dawn Rising" lets you see that Bruce’s heart is dead, he has no object to protect (the Dante Act makes Gotham City sweep organized crime even more powerful), and has lost the person he loves most (Rachel said, "Don’t take me As your only hope of having an ordinary life"—but we all know this is a fact), no one can share who you really are. He is stuck between memories and sadness. Without Ah Fu, I don't think he would be able to survive the past eight years. In "The Hour of War", he is a rich young master who learns to act as a messenger of justice. In "The Dark Knight", he is a messenger of justice who puts on the mask of a playboy and looks for an opportunity for "retirement", but he sees clearly after the trial. The limits (know your limits, what Ah Fu said) and the solitary way to go. So in "Dawn Rising", the third Bruce Wayne who feels unfamiliar and hard to devote himself to empathy is the truly lonely self who has no intention of playing Xiaokai and unable to be a messenger of justice.
In order to rebirth him, "Dawn Rises" wrote the role of Serena Kyle, and asked Ann Haiserwei to play a catwoman who is far more "fascinating", not weird, and "mysterious" than we thought. To protest, there is not even a black cat in the film.) She is clean and shiny, and her conversation, dress, or martial arts are all normal to almost disappoint me—but of course, knowing that Nolan wants her to change." After the intention of "companion", my doubts disappeared. Ann Heisewei is too cute, even if she put aside her gaze as a man, I still believe so. Her body language is a mixture of nobleness and mischief, naughty mixed with fierce body language, goggles become a wonderful reference to cat ears, and that face is changed. The terrible "acting" skills that look like turning a book but are always innocent and sincere are all so "just right", which is not disgusting at all. Her interaction with Bruce even hinted at the young master’s love at first sight from the first time she was caught: This has changed from Mother Wayne’s pearl necklace (the key item that killed her parents in those years) to a symbol of their entanglement and determination. It's not hard to see. Not to mention that the "start again" opportunity she was looking for was exactly what Bruce needed most.
Even at the end of the story, the kiss under the two masks made the audience gasp (both in the State Guest Hall, so I have heard the exclamation of 3000 people), but admit it! The two of them are a match made in heaven. The biggest sweetness of "Dawn Rising" is to keep Bruce alive, which makes me understand that Nolan actually loves his role more than anyone else. And as the beautiful power to accompany this "true blues", Anheiserwei is definitely worthy of this position. This is why the last shot of the outdoor cafe, although I had guessed that she would sit there, I was so happy when the picture was actually brought.
And the third point, let's talk about the essence of the series, which is the "Death of Batman". In fact, this endgame (die a hero) has been hinted many times, and even Rachel said to him, "When Gotham City no longer needs Batman, I can meet the real you. But you will always need Batman." How to break through this dilemma?
So my third supporting role is Gotham City itself. In this series, Gotham is not just a stage, it is also a role. Gotham in "Dawn Rising" is like Harvey Dante in "The Dark Knight", he must suffer with Bruce and then learn to stand up. And three times in a row, the evil party tried to destroy it: "The Hour of War" used fear to let the citizens kill each other, the "Dark Knight" used the disintegration of order to let the people bite each other; "Dawn Rises" was to instigate classes , The hatred of the rich and the poor, even if it is just a guise, it really makes Gotham a place where policing is ineffective.
But when the power of the rule of law ceases, heroes and beliefs become credibility. At first it was belief that made the hero, and then the hero gave us the belief, and when that belief was strong enough, it was enough to inspire people (It was meant to inspire good.). In the three episodes, the malignant tumor in Gotham City has been removed bit by bit, and Nolan’s lens has become less and less black (noir), and the world in the film has become more and more real; in "Dawn Rising", most of the scenery It all happened during the day, and the realization of Gotham here is a large number of auxiliary roles: not only Gordon and Blake, but also the sheriff, congressman, chaebol and criminals. The scenes of these people may be scattered, not as bright and three-dimensional as Dante, but when the bat symbol is raging, the scene of the police force against the mob is like the ferry dilemma of "The Dark Knight", and it is too beautifying the human nature. The artistic conception it wants to convey is clear: Gotham City has risen.
When Gotham is finally cured, the last thing Batman must do/finally can do is "dead". Afu said to Bruce: "I'm afraid you want to fail", and Bann also said to him "You are not afraid of death at all, you welcome it", but they are only half right. Bruce must let Batman die and make him eternal (becoming "him") so that Gotham City can be sheltered forever without him. Only in this way can he (Bruce) move on.
At the end of "The Dark Knight", it was two lies (the letter burnt by Afu and the death of Dante) that made Bruce/Gotham live in good hope, both of which were torn apart in "Dawn Rising" Up. But the first wound hurts Bruce, but it made him recognize the facts. The second wound was on Gotham City, which made it accept the hero's call to stand up on its own. If you ask me now, the ending of the [Dark Knight Trilogy] is perfect, shocking, satisfying, and moving. It is full of domineering scale and technology, and the indispensable golden triangle connects the whole mind. , Bring due salvation.
At this point, I began to feel that I was lengthening the article to avoid the destined ending. But how can I not talk about Ah Fu? Michael Kane gave us the warmest and wise companion in this series. His midway exit made me speechless, but it was this "absence" (along with Bruce's money and status being robbed) that made me speechless. The audience loses/realizes the "sense of security" they have always had in watching this series. It's like the young master who has been well taken care of has finally entered puberty and fell out with his parents. If we don't get to this point, we will never know how much we actually need them.
Afu once said to Bruce: "I can't tell you how to face the past, but I want you to understand that many people care about your future." He also asked Bruce "How long will you stay here this time?" and the master replied "as long as it takes" (now the answer is revealed, a total of nine years); when Bruce Trapped in that dungeon, I always expected Ah Fu to appear in some way (even in a dream), but then I realized that he was always there: when Bruce looked over the well, just like Wei En's mansion was destroyed by fire, and he looked at the fire above the elevator corridor from the same angle in the same despair. At that time, it was not his father but Ah Fu who asked him "why do we fall?"-at the end of the story, it was him who cried the most sadly, but because of this, after seeing the second to last shot, you understand He is the happiest one.
How can I not improve my registration? Gary Oldman’s consistent, life-and-death performance brings the most "real world" connection to this series. I have always cared most about the moment of "letting the most important people know the truth" in these hero movies: "Spider-Man II "The classic look back", "The Hour of War", the secret words of the acquaintance, "Spider-Man: Surprise again" the roof kiss, and then here. The last person in the world to know the identity of Batman is Gordon, but the little warm moment that is connected to the distant memory, reflecting the friendship between the two people fighting side by side all the way, is the most moving moment in the series.
When Lucius found that the autopilot of the fighter plane had been repaired, his mouth smiled; when Gordon realized that the bat logo was placed back, he smiled so briskly and openly for the first time; from "The Hour of War" to Therefore, "fear" is the core of Batman's role, from overcoming his own fears, using fear as a weapon, to "Dawn Rising" turning the fear of death into the greatest survival force-fallen heroes are better than standing ones. It's still tall, but it's much more difficult to stand up than to fall down. In that dungeon, Bruce understood to live, not escape to death. Perhaps sacrifice can bring greater drama, but there will always be a group of people who care about you who would rather see you live an ordinary life than wish you to be martyred.
So, on this Sunday morning when dawn is rising, I am finally going to write the end of this paragraph. I have been thinking for a long time. For half a year, I have been trying to figure out how to end this article and end this trilogy series that I will love the most? But now I understand that there can be no better ending than this. Therefore, I would like to ask you to close your eyes and imagine a picture after reading this text. It is a figure wearing a black cloak flying among the sky buildings, or riding a huge two-wheeled locomotive into the night lights, or a An old man smiled contentedly, and a huge black platform slowly rising from below the surface of the water. Regardless of the above, it is matched with symphonic chords that are rising in the ears. At the moment when the volume is loudest, the picture is instantly dark-
then there is a second and a half of silence, then the drum beats down, the title word lights up, and your Consciousness came back, and it felt like...
You already know what I'm going to say.
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