I know it's old news, but there's a point I want to make here about the depiction of the Waynes' murders. At the end of the day, Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne died because they were shot by the mugger. Did Thomas provoke him? Possibly. Is that smart? No. Do people always make smart decisions under pressure, or to resolve conflict? Nope.
Anyway, the point is this.
Snyder and the writers did not RANDOMLY make it so there was a shot of Thomas Wayne “balling up his fist” and surging forward.
This was not an accident. It is not an accident that this is wildly different than what we saw from Nolan's Thomas Wayne.
It was not an accident when Miller showed this in TDKR.
The impulse in Bruce Wayne that became The Batman was born in violence.
And what does he do after that violent rebirth? He spends his life steeped in violence and struggling with his violent nature.
There’s meaning regarding Thomas and Martha trying to save Bruce by physically trying to stop the gunman. I don’t know if everyone noticed, but the movie sort of quietly makes a point about violence maybe not being the way to go all the time when it comes to resolving conflict.
And the movie opens with a microcosm of that.
It’d be interesting to see the Masculine/Feminine thread's take on this.
You could make the argument that in some ways, Bruce, in rescuing the “surrogate” mother figure at the end of the film, was actually atoning for his father’s failure.
Also, it’s quite possibly a dream. We don’t know that this is exactly what happened. They could conceivably show the origin again in a different light if they wanted to. Much like the comics have. I kind of love that.
