A 2012 film by Christopher Nolan that concludes the Dark Knight trilogy with Batman emerging from retirement to face a revolutionary terrorist whose populist rhetoric masks nihilism.
Closed the trilogy by transposing Dickens's French Revolution narrative onto Gotham, exploring how legitimate grievances can be weaponized by demagogues — a theme that gained new resonance in subsequent political cycles.
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