Something to watch tonight: Saturday 30 August
The Dark Knight Rises (Nolan, 2012)
Apologies for this arriving on a weekend. There were some tedious technical issues which I won’t go into.
This week back in 2012, I was travelling to Telluride in Colorado for the annual film festival.1 I flew in to Denver and had a couple of days to acclimate myself before the drive across the state to the San Juan Mountains so I went to visit a cinema.
By that, I don’t mean I went to a movie. I went to visit a cinema. The Century 16 in Aurora, Colorado, wasn’t in operation. In fact, it was surrounded by fences and makeshift memorials because a few weeks earlier a gunman had entered cinema 9 during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises and opened fire on the audience, killing 12 people.
It remains beyond comprehension that you might be murdered simply by choosing to go to the pictures, so I felt that I owed those victims and survivors a moment or two of my time to honour their lives:
I wasn’t expecting to be quite as moved as I was by this and stuck around for longer than I had planned, thinking of how a night at the pictures could be disturbed by something so much worse than annoying talkers and texters.
Where to watch The Dark Knight Rises
Aotearoa: Streaming on Prime Video or Neon
Australia: Streaming on Prime Video, Foxtel Now, Stan or Binge
Canada: Streaming on Crave
Ireland: Streaming on Prime Video
India: Streaming on Prime Video or Hotstar
USA: Streaming on HBO Max2
UK: Streaming on Prime Video
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