Spoiler Alert! If you have
not seen this movie, do not read this article. I might ruin it for you.
Imagine
a story about someone who left a world of unimaginably great riches to go and
dwell with a very fallen people-marred by the effects of sin-in a very fallen world.
He fights the greatest evil, and apparantly is overwhelmed by it. He descends
into a hellish abyss, and is seemingly dead forever.
Remarkably,
after a period of time, he overcomes the evil of that hellhole and rises again.
He overcomes the Evil One and all of the evil minions and rescues a very fallen
people from the full effect of all that evil. Indeed, he gives them hope for a
new life.
I
am of course talking about Jesus and the Gospel story. Although that
description, I guess, captures the essential plot of The Dark Knight Rises as well.
Over
and over in great movies and books, I see artists take biblical stories and rework them in a thinly disguised way. I wonder what would happen if God ever
decided to sue for plagiarism.
Maybe
God feels complimented because people keep using his material.
For whatever it is worth, I really liked the movie.
