What Would Batman Do?

I finally got around to seeing The Dark Knight for a second time. I recommend everyone to see it at least twice (if only for the fact that CNN reports that it’s this close to beating Titanic in ticket sales). I was able to hear things I missed before and pay attention to plot points that didn’t seem to fit. Of course, I’m not going to spoil anything for you, assuming you’re reading a blog about the Dark Knight without actually having seen the greatest movie of all time, The Dark Knight. I will say this though: I almost cried at the end.

The best part might have been when there was this cockroach, a real cockroach mind you, on the screen. It might have been a June-bug, actually. Anyways, this Juneroach is crawling over the screen during one of Mr. J’s uber creepy scenes. My friend next to me was going insane. She has a fear of bugs bordering on a phobia, and for about ten minutes she kept saying, “It’s going to land on me, it’s going to land on me!” And wouldn’t you know it? A film school student/movie theater guy came out and hit the screen with a broom, and that cockbug flew right towards my seemingly paranoid crony.

But getting back to Batman–the whole event brought me back to Batman Begins. And so, I leave you with this excerpt from the film to help us make sense of a world that often appears to be an eternal battle of man versus nature:

Thomas Wayne: The bats again?
[Bruce nods]
Thomas Wayne: You know why they attacked you, don’t you? They were afraid of you.
Bruce Wayne - age 8: Afraid of me?
Thomas Wayne: All creatures feel fear.
Bruce Wayne - age 8: Even the scary ones?
Thomas Wayne: Especially the scary ones.

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