Right when the movie ended, somehow I felt like it was an
end of an era. I was happy and sad at the same time. I was in awe. I was
speechless. All of those conflicting emotions… no words can aptly define… somehow it just hits you right there.
You can see that everything was ingeniously crafted, from
the storyline, the characters, the effects, the comedy, the drama, the action,
the pacing, the continuity, the foreshadowing, the list goes on. You can expect
nothing less than excruciating detail from Nolan. And he has not let me down in
the Dark Knight Rises.
At the beginning I was kind of surprised with the setting. It has been exactly 8 years since Harvey Dent died, Batman being blamed for his death, and Bruce has become an arthritic recluse in his own house. In some sense he blamed himself for Rachel’s death, and he has a hard time getting over that. But in spite of everything happening to Bruce on the inside, on the outside Gotham was at peace… or so it seems.
