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[The Fallen]

http://www.411mania.com/movies/columns/41103/The-Lost-Highway-05.24.06:-Batman-Begins.htm

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[El Payaso]

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[batmaluco]

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The Lost Highway 05.24.06: Batman Begins
Posted by Mary Markham on 05.24.2006

“It’s not who you are underneath but what you do that defines you."

It is interesting to me how apathy has put a stranglehold on our society. There was a time in the history of man where matters of the soul or spirit if you will, infused the blood to beat strongly. Passion and survival were intertwined and often times became one. Every species on the planet experiences suffering in some form or another. No matter how insignificant or how enigmatic, everything understands pain. However as homosapiens we were cursed with the intelligence to have emotional responses to situational outcomes. This enables us to become a superior species. This is our greatest gift. This is ultimately our downfall.

As a boy, Bruce Wayne learned the difficulties attributed to human nature and all its fallible complications. Bearing witness to the murder of his parents began the gestation period of anger so deep and festering it threatened to destroy his very being.

The literal definition of vengeance as a noun is: punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense.The idea behind vengeance lays a visceral human response to injustice. Whether it is blatant inequity to your personal being or those you love negotiates the severity of the act itself. In Wayne's case his guilt over the responsibility of his parent's death grew bitter with age eventually poisoning his entire body and finally manifesting itself into rage.

The idea of revenge for wrongdoing or vengeance is not unnatural but it takes a unique bloodline to dedicate one's life to it. Wayne's lone wolf complex led him on a journey of a lesser man wrought with criminal antics and eventually incarceration. It is our assumed knowledge that his desperate need to understand the criminal mind spirited him to his final hellish destination.

At this moment salvation is his only option. It comes to him in the form of Ra's Al Ghul , a samurai of sorts, a shaman, and a man of higher moralities. Al Ghul, leader of the League of Shadows, offers Wayne the chance to fine tune his anger into an ethical weapon. He learns the ways of the League and he will be responsible for the cleansing of the corrupt and desiccated, Gotham City.

There is no doubt that Gotham resembles a certain American city but in my humble opinion Gotham has become America. As it is mentioned on more than one occasion in the film, the League of Shadows works as the collective moral high ground. Slightly resembling the freemasons, the League lays claim to a history of societal judgment. They boast of their involvement in the fall of Constantinople and Rome, both cities who had reached their decadent and sinful threshold. They are quite simply: population control. Their latest target is Gotham City, home of Wayne Enterprises and the prince of the kingdom is their newest member.

What the League underestimates in Bruce is the one human capacity they have no tolerance for: Compassion. This leads Wayne to abandon the League and return to Gotham unassumed and retaliate against the sorrows of the rotting city in his own way. He becomes Batman.

Batman is an "idea"; a representation of fear and dread that separates Bruce as a man from his peers. His dedication to creating the myth is inspiring. He pulls from all his resources to create an entity of justice. Batman, unlike the other superheroes has no special powers. He is simply an extremely innate and finely tuned man who will stop at nothing to save Gotham and restore the city to the ideal that his parents had so dearly fought for.

Christopher Nolan's version of this story is fantastic and driving. It is truly an excellent film with a cast as impressive as the story itself. Christian Bale was born to play this character. He brings everything that Batman should be and delivers it to the audience without arrogance.

The story of "Batman" is perhaps my favorite of the comic book heroes. I understand and relate to the darkness that can envelop one's entire being forcing them into a corner of pain and anger that is almost unbearable. I also understand that he is a human who's faults make him that much more appealing. And finally his absolute determination to his cause is humbling. How many of us stand by with our eyes lowered to the ground when faced with ugliness. I, like Batman will always fight. Perhaps the rest of the world will catch up.

"Why do we fall, sir? So that we might better learn to pick ourselves up."

 

[batmaluco]

That's the part that gets you thinking.

lol

 

[Rynan]

An interesting read. Rynan approves.

 

[Bat Attack]

Good read.

 

[Cats]

He's summarized my sentiments towards the movie. *applaud*

 

[The Kid]

i don't really understand what it's saying. shrugs

*goes and reads a comic book while on the toilet.*