10 Legitimate Criticisms Of The Dark Knight Rises

3. It Goes From Day To Night In The Blink Of An Eye

Night When Bane heads into the stock exchange it€™s most definitely daytime. He€™s in for a few minutes before leaving into the same light, but after a quick trip through a tunnel he comes out and it€™s completely dark. There€™s no way for this to logically work. The stock exchange is rammed, so the working day is still in full swing. And as there€™s snow on the ground five or so months from now, that places the date in the middle of summer, a time when, I'm informed by those who don€™t spend their time over analysing movies, days are normally longer. So there€™s no chance the sun was just about to set when Bane set his attack in motion. Obviously Nolan wanted to chase to devolve into the cops chasing Batman at night (he wouldn't make his first daytime appearance until later in the film), but the plot demanded it start during working hours. Rather than adding in another element, he just went for it and hoped people wouldn't notice. Or, more importantly, be bothered. And given the fluidity on the sequence and the childlike glee of seeing Batman suited up for the first time, he just about gets away with it.
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Film Editor (2014-2016). Loves The Usual Suspects. Hates Transformers 2. Everything else lies somewhere in the middle. Once met the Chuckle Brothers.