The writer is smoking crack, or rather he’s seeing what he wants to see. Nolan wasn’t slamming occupiers (as if the occupy “movement” was even worthwhile enough to slam). He’s not criticizing anyone. The main villain, Bane, speaks with a preacher’s tongue and has a large coterie of selflessly devoted followers - features indicative of being ultimately driven by adherence to some sort of ideology. But if that’s the case, what is it? If you want to see him as driven by a variant of Marxism - you can; and if you don’t so desire you’re free to see otherwise; his rhetoric is kept scrupulously vague.
Nolan’s not trying to make a statement with his movie, he’s trying to entertain. That’s why there’s no shortage of explosions, and fistfights, and a latex clad babe performing high kicks. The movie flirts with ideas in order to create the illusion of depth; but ultimately anything you see therein is nothing but what you want to see. I have no doubt that some occupier has walked out of a movie theater this weekend convinced that Bane was the exact epitome of an extremist right winger who needed to put in his place by our socialist champion Bruce Wayne.
I doubt I will go to a theater to see this movie, but if I do I will take a gas mask and be packing heat.
I agree with you up to a point, I don’t think the movie is nearly as clearly rightwing as Nolte is making is out to be. But nor do I think it’s completely value neutral. For one thing it clearly drew analogy of Bane’s “revolution” to the French revolution, which was decidedly a leftist revolution.