The Dark Knight Rises in this World

In this August, cinema was flooded with piles of new films and most of them are good makings which guaranteed high box office.

I had brought my brother to these three movies, The Amazing Spiderman, Total recall and the newest and maybe last Batman movie by Christopher Nolan with a super cool name, Batman: The Dark Knight Rises.

The dialogue, the acting, the actions, narration, story lines was almost perfect to a person like me who was serious in choosing movies. Surprisingly, I was the rare type of Batman 3 audience who didn't really watch Batman 1 and 2.

It was sure unique in its own ways. I remembered I used to watch the Batman Animations, it was always villains like Joker, Riddle or Penguin who plan another chaos while the officers couldn't handle but Bat had to come and stop it. But for Christopher Nolan's Batman, the people of the city actually joined in the villain and it was a big riot. The Gotham city has presented various kind of evil reflected in various walks of life. I nodded when Bruce Wayne in the movie said, "The charity dinner are for the purpose of feeding those rich wives' ego." 

At the beginning, story circles around Bane who started his plan by first trapping all the police forces underground and then he began to release the prisoners and roamed the city with all his followers. Those who are once opposed, poor in background rose up to have trials with the rich in sentencing court. It was finally them who get to be the judge.

Batman was defeated by Bane and was locked in an underground prison which he had to climb up high walls to make the escape. And during this time when evil is everywhere, the city was hopeless because it had lost its saviour.

Eventually Batman managed to make his way out and come back to stop everything including sending away the nuclear bomb which is about to blow up the whole city.

Batman was never back off even when his servant, Alfred and Catwoman had been advising him that it was not worth to trade his life just to save the city. But Batman won't give in.

In the contrary, the children who are running for their lives from the city was stopped by the police force from crossing the bridge. 

I remembered when Blake asked Batman why he had to put on his mask, he simply answered, 'Anyone could be Batman, anyone could be the hero.'

There's a question here, does Christopher Nolan's Gotham city actually give the picture of our own world? The rich was wasting their resources but the poor had to die of trying to survive. The world was in rage, hopeless and would want a massacre to stop the corruption.

I remembered when the world was so corrupted back then, God did put a massacre to end it. In fact, Noah's ark story was never about how beautiful is the ship or how cute the animals like it shall be the story for children. It was in fact the scariest moment in human history when water engulfed the souls of millions, trillions from the whole universe.

Does massacre a need in time now? Or a Saviour who would bring hope?

Jesus Christ, the Messiah said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid."

And He meant it to everyone regardless you are rich or poor in materials or soul.