No...I infer that the rope is designed to physically hold people back because the film SHOWS people being held back by the rope when they try to climb.
The whole "Make the climb as the child did...without the rope" thing isn't just about Bruce and fear. Its about it being physically impossible to escape without being free of the rope. Its literal...and its metaphor.
Only one other person attempts the climb throughout the movie. The rope appears taught on one side and has slack on the climber's side. I infer the rope as a
literal safety and a
metaphorical inhibition. Who says I cannot perceive a plausible and contradictory inference to yours?
That may be...and that is so...so stupid.
It's like facing Bane and being broken by him didn't change him at all.
Why would he not gain a respect and fear of death after he faces something that should make him afraid?
Seems like a missed opportunity for character exploration to me. Not that the film wasn't already chock full of those.
I notice how you conveniently omit my evidence to support your argument and resort to an
ad hominem attack. Well, allow me to retort. Your ignorance justifies calling my explanation stupid. You obviously fail to explore the synonymity between "the most powerful impulse of the spirit: The fear of death," the "power [that] can be yours," and the sympathetic nervous system.
How would I explain it? The way scientists and doctors do. Adrenaline. Determination.
Do you even know how the sympathetic nervous system functions when you activate it and what hormone it produces? Do you know working out stimulates the sympathetic nervous system in the exact way as running from a pit bull? The SAS member Chris Ryan used determination to control the adrenaline coming from his sympathetic nervous system. He covered roughly forty miles per day for five days. He even remarked smelling like death through the ordeal. However, you simply cannot recognize the analogy between the anecdote, Bruce jumping without the rope, and the doctor's soliloquy.
That...has little to nothing to do with what happens in the film.
Supposedly Bruce didn't fear death already. But then he had to learn to fear death...to overcome fear of death? Thats so convoluted and nonsensical to me. Which is basically what all the "you must learn fear again" stuff was. Nonsense. Its philosophical mumbo jumbo, but its not based in anything tangible.
I feel like if this is what the film was dealing with...then the film should have been more about Bruce learning to deal with failure...and not vague ideas about fear.
The Enlightenment philosophy heavily influences The Constitution and Declaration of Independence, documents that preserves our great country. Sun Tzu wrote the
Art of War nearly 2,300 years ago, but the US military still applies its strategies in combat today. People still practice jeet kune do and apply its philosophies to daily living. Bruce Lee has been dead for thirty-nine years. Martin Luther King Jr. applied Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolence philosophy to awaken America's social conscience. King's work still remains in progress to this day. You are white, so I do not expect you to acknowledge any tangible results from nonwhite philosophies; they will always remain convoluted and nonsensical to you. Excuse me for refusing to adopt your ethnocentric myopia and covert bigotry that you project through your rebuttals. You are right. Philosophy is a bunch of mumbo jumbo that is not based on anything tangible.
"When a country begins to feel threatened by its own inadequacies, the majority of men tend to prop themselves up by artificial means, rather than dig down deep into their cultural and spiritual wellsprings" (Martin Luther King Jr.)
"It was obvious to the master from the start of the conversation that the professor was not so much interested in learning about Zen as he was in impressing the master with his own opinions and knowledge. As the Zen teacher explained, the learned man would frequently interrupt him with remarks like 'Oh, yes, we have that, too' and so on. Finally, the Zen teacher stopped talking and began to serve tea to the learned man. He poured the cup full, then kept pouring until the cup overflowed. 'Enough!' the learned man once more interrupted. 'The cup is overfull, no more will go in!' 'Indeed, I see,' answered the Zen teacher. 'Like this cup, you are full of your own opinions and speculations. If you do not first empty your cup, how can you taste my cup of tea?'"
"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides" (John Stuart Mill).
This trilogy is ****ing awesome
