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4. The Status Quo Must Be Preserved At All Costs - The Dark Knight Rises

Within days of Christopher Nolan's final Batman movie hitting cinemas, there was a ton of discussion about the film's apparently conservative political leanings.

Bane (Tom Hardy) urging the destitute citizens of Gotham to rise up against the rich elite drew easy parallels with the Occupy Wall Street movement that was popular at the time.

Though the film is at least morally ambiguous enough to make sense of the frustration felt by Bane and his followers, ultimately by film's end the rich superhero has quashed the rebellion and restored order to the city, all while leaving the legitimate qualms raised by Bane's crusade completely unresolved.

Rather than show Batman (Christian Bale) attempting to tear down the capitalist social structure of which he is a wildly disproportionate beneficiacy, Batman's focus is squarely on keeping the existing social order in tact, no matter how gross it inherently is.

Nolan, a certified Democrat, has denied any such political commentary being intentional, but given how gritty and grounded his Dark Knight Saga purports itself to be, it's hard not to feel like he's saying something real about the world around us.