Joanna Robinson

Like, is that the right choice?

It doesn't make sense, right?

And the way that that

Those tendrils connect in this film, the Dent Act, and you open with this like completely farcical portrait of a city free of organized crime for eight years and the streets were cleaned up and this and that.

And it's like the commentary on

what kind of delusion is unfolding in a place where people believe that that's real, right?

But like Bane has an entire operation going under their very buildings and their street and has laced the concrete that holds the structure of the city and placed the bones of the city with explosives that he can blow at any point and they don't even know it's happening.

So I think that the like assessment of, you know, political the political apparatus of a city and the machine of a city and stuff like that is obviously really interesting to Nolan.

And then the, you know, conversations that like Alfred and Bruce have about and Bruce has with Blake in this movie and, you know, Rachel last movie, everything like what can one person do in the face of that?

What is their right?

It actually does crumble without him and is 12 hours away from blowing up by the time he gets back.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, I think this is, like, again, it's interesting to think, as it always is with Nolan films, of, like, the through line across his work, where, like, when he tends to find inspiration in the text or even actively incorporate, like, a passage that Gordon's reading, it reminded me a little bit of, like, the recurring Dylan Thomas refrain in your favorite movie, Interstellar, right?

Where, like, I think that Nolan...

he's not literally using these as epigraphs.

It's not a quote that opens the film like it's the first page of a book, but he's kind of using them in similar fashion, right?

Where they're there to clarify tone and intent to us, right?

And I think that that, for some people, probably feels a little clunkier than for others when a character is literally reading it and telling you this is going to be the map that the story operates against.

But I don't mind it.

And I think especially when it's a character like