Battle of will and defeat

Rating: 9/10 (29 July 2019)

What I like the most about this film is that it has achieved binding the entire mythology that's been built in the previous films in the series. From resurrecting our memories of characters and tying up their ends with more information of how the new characters are connected with the old. But most importantly "who is Batman?"
In Batman begins a terrorist organization wants to completely annihilate Gotham city because of how corrupted Gotham is, with its mob bosses and corrupted corporations and government.
In the dark knight we see the people and the authority of Gotham facing a villain who's only goal seems to be proving the madness within us and destabilizing or exposing order as a lie. The ultimate goal was to see the people turn against each other, A fall of civilization through mass hysteria and paranoia.
Throughout the series we see a similar theme- a socio/ political reason for the destruction of society. The dark knight rises presents itself with a temporary actualization of what the previous films were warning us. Unlike the joker who wanted this by making the people go at each other, bane does it by military invasion and a more stable vision. A vision not born of madness but one of ideal and hate. All these villains have one thing in common, they were all unaccepted and in return didn't accept.
Every film tests Batman and his ideals. In rises we see him truly broken and literally rising from a metaphorical hell. The one bane calls home.
Every good story is adventurous and every good adventure story has something to reveal about the protagonist - a search for identity. In some films the identity search becomes the central theme, and a conscious effort by the characters. In Batman, Wayne seems to be quite clear of who he is though he always carries an air of mystery about him. True we know his secret cosplay shenanigans but the drama and obstacles that happens around him and his response to them reveals to us more about who he is at the core.
A film shouldn't be interpreted so much but the dark knight films are very inviting. I think in the final chapter Batman completely dies. The entire pit climbing(the metaphorical yet literal hell)sequence is purely Bruce Wayne. Every last beat of his heart beats for Gotham and Wayne makes the jump like the child. At that very moment, he's reborn. And like an innocent child would trust a snake, the first thing Wayne does is trust someone who betrayed him.
And by death Batman becomes immortalized - a statue is built