Movie analysis: The Dark Night Rises

The Dark Night Rises:      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GokKUqLcvD8

After watching this thriller based movie, I found out how the director uses certain elements in the movie to make the audience feel suspense and excited as the same time. The codes and conventions in this movie as very clear: Bane’s character has a very deep voice making the audience believe he is a man who holds a lot of power. Not only that, Bruce also seems to have a very deep voice once he wears his batman costume making the audience confuses; within these two character who actually overpowers whom. Christopher Nolan has used plenty more codes and conventions within this movie which also includes the customs and masks of the protagonist and the antagonist, which clearly states how these two characters are the main ones in the movie. Not forgetting, Catwoman who also has a costume, making us believe that she is the main actress in the movie and her role is a helper of the protagonist.

The setting of the movie also contributes to the atmosphere, which the director wants to create. In this movie, Nolan has included a lot of scenes which were shot in a dark settings such as the back ally way or inside the prison where there was minimum light being exposed in the room.  This created almost an eerie like atmosphere and made the audience feel entertained and excited to see what would happen next in that scene. As I stated how the scenes were shot in dark settings, the lighting would have been very dark which also contributes to the atmosphere by make to look frightening and mysterious in some scenes.     

Nolan has used the typical structure of the movie, which was introduced by Todorov (Todorov Narrative Theory). In the first scenes you could see how the scene was Equilibrium as everything was fine and no destruction was shown. However, as time went on the Equilibrium was disrupted by the antagonist, Bane. From then on everything started falling apart till the protagonist; Bruce decided to do something about this matter. As you can guess after Bruce solves the problem everyone lives happily ever after as new Equilibrium was created.    

To be honest, the movie was good but I was able to predict what would happen next. Maybe this was because of the fact how everyone knows about the story of Batman. However, there were some parts even I wasn’t able to guess what would happen. Overall, I liked how Nolan used his setting, lighting, props, costumes and mostly his choice of actors to bring out all the emotions which the audience were meant to be feeling when watching the movie.  

In my opining, I think that this movie is quite similar to our movie as Bruce had a bad past and so does our protagonist, but every time they have someone next to them to support them. For Bruce it was his butler, Alfred or even Catwoman when he is faced with problems and for our protagonist it is the psychiatrist, Nathan and sometimes his step-mother, Eve who gives him hope and happiness. Nevertheless, there are a lot of differences between Nolan’s ‘The Dark Night Rises’ and our ‘The Nightmare’ as the two protagonists are from different class and the protagonist, Bruce didn’t get physically abused in his past.