Bane is lying!

There are a lot of weird politics in Nolan's Batman films, and the relative complexity of the films are still very blunt and obvious.

But the idea that Bane actually stands for the little guy, against the corrupt oligarchy, and is a direct criticism of justifiable protest action - that one still grinds my gears. 

He's Bane! he's lying! He's using that righteous anger as a weapon, but he doesn't actually believe the shit he says. He's just another hateful ogre, using the usual brute force for his own goals, and he doesn't care who he has to sacrifice to achieve his monstrous goals.

You can't trust Bane!

The various Occupy movements were still happening when this film was released, and I can see how easy it is to see this silly Batman movie as a criticism of them, but it felt like more of a warning. Even as the protest movement's methods and infrastructure were co-opted by selfish, shallow fools, that doesn't mean their aims and goals were foolish -  making the world a better place is always a noble idea.

Politeness is not getting us far in this world, and it may take the guillotines before we get any real social change, but Bane is not doing that. He stands for nihilism and the void, and just wants to burn the world down, not build a new one. 

He had one of the great voices in modern cinema - anyone who complains that hey can't understand his mumbling is a total wiener - but Bane wasn't interested in making the world a better place, he just wanted to terrorise it. Any fool can see that.