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There's a beautiful high-angle shot, early in The Dark Knight, that looks down on Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) in full Batman regalia as he perches atop a Gotham skyscraper, surveying the city he lives to protect, then leaping off and spreading his majestic bat wings to swoop down into the night. Bruce's trajectory is also the film's. It traces a descent into moral anarchy, and each of its major characters will hit bottom. Some will never recover, broken by the touch of evil or by finding it, like a fatal infection, in themselves...
Monday's Delta flight from New York City to Nice, France, was filled with pilgrims to the 61st Cannes Film Festival. In addition to movie company executives and programmers from Gotham cultural institutions, the plane carried a passel of people whose job it is to evaluate films, and for whom Cannes is both the start of the liturgical year and a two-week binge of international cinema. Among the critics on board were J. Hoberman (The Village Voice), A.O. Scott (New York Times), Lisa Schwarzbaum (Entertainment Weekly), Leah Rozen (People), Melissa Anderson (Time Out New York) and your two TIME.com...
...Their history as ports has made Nylonkong open to the world in other ways, too. New York, of course, has long been thought of as a city of immigrants - of the Irish and the Italians, the Dominicans in Washington Heights, and the scores of other ethnicities that make up Gotham's mosaic. But increasingly, so is London. In 2006, according to the London Labour Force Survey, 31% of the city's residents had been born outside Britain; that compared with 34% of New Yorkers who hailed from outside the U.S. that year. Hong Kong, which barely existed 150 years...
...make the world its own once again,” Weisman said. During the talk yesterday, Weisman explained several examples of nature’s capacity for recuperation. At the top of his list was the fate of New York City. According to subway operators, civil engineers, and botanists, Gotham would see its subways flooded within two to three days, bridges collapsed within two to three centuries, and thriving full fledged forests within two to three millennia. Weisman also described the surprising state of the region around Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which exploded in April...
...Gotham Books; 289 pages...