Burnwinter wrote:
Christopher Nolan films aren't cinema.
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The only one of his films I've liked is The Prestige I think. And then I read the book a few years later and realised it's better. I can't remember what I thought of his remake of Insomnia, but I know the same thing happened there. I watched the original and thought it was a lot better. There's a lack of nuance and depth to the material he works with that gets patched up by sleek aesthetics, and I'm not fond of his politics which, I think, are fuelled by the same lack of awareness that plagues the superhero genre at large.
The Dark Knight in particular is a vile film I think, and the creative decision to base it on Frank Miller's fascist-tinged imagery in The Dark Knight comic is probably part of the reason. Knowing what we do today about Miller and his political leanings makes it quite a nasty experience to go back and read this story in particular, and Nolan being inspired by it gives the whole set of films a bit of an ironic twist too. Nolan's Batman trilogy starts out taking aim at corruption inside government and the judiciary and ends in the glorification of the police state. Make sequels enough to see yourself become the villain indeed.
