The Dark Knight Rises/蝙蝠侠：黑暗骑士崛起

As the Batman sequel which happened 8 years later in the story, the movie discussed two questions besides the war between the good and the evil:

First, what kind of evil was the worst evil? In the last part, the Joker challenged the dark and evil side of human nature, and in this movie, the villain not only continued to challenge the dark side of human nature, but also did it in a sounding name: the people. The evil masked by justice is the worst evil.

For the Chinese people, the speech by Bane in front of the city hall was entirely a replica of the inciting speech in China's 1966-1976 Cultural Revolution, which was one of the characteristics of that era with black and white reversed and justice ruled by evil. So it was a little weird that this movie could be shown publicly in Mainland China.

The second question was which to trust, people or institution? Apparently, Batman had always been committed to find "a good guy" to entrust him the business of justice safely. However, it was clear he failed. Miranda, his heir, even slept with him, but was still the bad guy. This was not accidental, it indicated that you should not put all hopes on a single person, even if he turned out to be a good man, as there was no guarantee that he would not deteriorate or make something evil in the name of justice, intentionally or not. Therefore, we should trust institutions rather than people. At this point, the movie was an obverse to hero movies.

Last but not least, this movie seemed more like "Rise of Robin" rather than a story focusing on the Batman, or a story on "how the Batman retired and handed his career to Robin".

作为电影时间跨度8年之后的蝙蝠侠续集，本片在正邪斗争的框架之外，还探讨了两个问题：

第一，什么样的恶是大恶。在上一集中，小丑挑战了人性中的黑暗和凶恶的一面，而本集中，反角不但继续挑战人性中的黑暗面，而且冠以更加冠冕堂皇的名义：人民。以正义出现的邪恶才是最大的邪恶。

对中国人来说，Bane站在市政厅前发表的演讲完全是一个中国文化大革命时期的煽动演说的翻版，是那个黑白颠倒、正义被邪恶所统治的时代的特征之一。所以我也很奇怪为什么本片还能在中国大陆公映。

第二，其次是是否应该信任人胜过制度。显然，蝙蝠侠一直致力于找到一个他信任的“好人”，让他可以放心地托付自己的正义事业。不过，显然他失败了。Miranda，他的继承人哪怕跟他上了床，但坏人还是坏人。这并非偶然，它更深刻地揭示出：不要把所有希望放在某个人上，哪怕他原来是个好人，但难保他不变质，或者在正义的名义下做出恶事，不管有意还是无意。因此，我们还需要信任制度，而非人，从这个意义上，本片是对英雄电影的一个反思。

最后吐两句槽，本片看起来更像是“Robin诞生记”，而非以蝙蝠侠为中心的故事。或者，“蝙蝠侠退休后把事业交给Robin”的故事。

Performance impression:
Director: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Hathaway, Marion Cotillard, Morgan Freeman