The Dark Knight Rises: 6 Themes That Define The Movie

2. Class Warfare

Touched upon in our talk of A Tale Of Two Cities, one of the movie€™s key themes is that of the class divide between the fortunates and the unfortunates which posits that, in the face of an ever-widening gulf between rich and poor, tensions will rise to an exploitable break-off point. The history of our non-comic-book world is littered with shadowy political figures using the threat of social and monetary disparity between the upper and lower classes to slyly slide into power. In The Dark Knight Rises these figures find their equivalent in excommunicated League of Shadows member Bane who, in the recession heavy period that is choking Gotham's poor, rallies the disenfranchised to rise up against the specter of banks and businesses that have sucked the cream out of the system and left them wanting. Gotham€™s hope's for salvation or destruction rests not only with Batman, but with its swarming disregarded masses. Key line: Selina Kyle - "There's a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches, because when it hits, you're all gonna wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us..."
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