There is a scene in Mr.Nolan's Dark Knight. Batman is desperate, Joker has all the cards in hand and nothing Batman can do. He goes back to headquarters and finds out he owns a facility which helps him listening to all citizens' conversation and also finding Joker. If it's not justifying the Patriot Acts, then what is?!
Lots of my intellectual friends believes Nolan died as a filmmaker by changing path after "Memento". Although I'm sick of the bold conservative context of his movies, I am a fan of him as a filmmaker. After "The Sopranos", "The Wire" and " Mad Men" a revolution happened in TV shows. Lots of talented writers found a better place to write. While adult became more busy to go to movie theaters, TV channels raised writers' salary to attract better writers. TV were always "Writers' Media" but only after this revolution good writers moved to TV studios. That improved TV shows quality and the result was transforming cinema to a teenagers' medium. They began to show movies which were more suitable for television, in theaters instead of real cinema. The result is for most movies it doesn't make any difference weather you watch it at home or go to a movie theater for a wide screen version.
But some filmmakers still make films for Wide Screen audience. Christopher Nolan is one of the few. He revived IMAX and is one of the filmmakers persuaded film companies (such as Kodak and Fuji) to continue manufacturing celluloid films. He narrates stories with logical goofs but so amazing and so imaginative and fantastic which make you care less about the logic (remember the last clash in "Inception" to wake DiCaprio up?). He tells stories which needs depth of field to become motion pictures. He uses sound not as something to nail the audience to their chair, but as a "tool" to help them understand the story better and in one sentence: "He is really a cinema filmmaker."