Tragically the dark knight rose!
On July 20, 2012, a very painful and tragic incident took place during a midnight show of Christopher Nolan's super hit film "The Dark Knight Rises" wherein a gunman wearing a gas mask opened fire inside a theatre in Aurora, Colorado. Twelve movie-goers were killed and more than 58 injured during the indiscriminate shooting.
Based on the DC Comics character 'Batman' 'The Dark Knight Rises' is the third and final installment of Nolan's Batman series.
While expressing deep shock and extending profound sympathy and condolences to the victims, I would like to place a question: How and why a citizen in the United States, a country of strict law, order and justice could get motivated to commit such a deadly crime publicly? Previously, such types of painful incidents occurred in shopping centres, schools, etc. I strongly feel that a thorough psychological and sociological investigation should be conducted to determine why some people are spontaneously committing such crimes.
On the other hand, filmmakers are also required to critically review the possible impacts of their movie before release. In this connection, I would like to quote Catherine Shoard of The Guardian of London who claimed: "The film is a quite audaciously capitalist vision, radically conservative, radically vigilante that advances a serious, stirring proposal that the wish-fulfillment of the wealthy is to be championed if they say they want to do good."
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