The Dark Knight.

I had been thinking a lot about Batman. That was the case, though admittedly it seems a tad odd at first, for which I have no response. During my time of sloth in the summer, I have spent many hours watching movies new and old. I have finally watched some classics many friends have told me for years I just had to see.
Strangely, the movies which struck me as most moving and which spurred on the most thought from me were the Batman films of new. Christopher Nolan is a man I would have at the supposed “intellectual dinner table” that teachers have spoken about through out high school.
Batman’s story itself is one riddled with sorrow and redemption; redemption for a people that do not deserve saving. Watching your parents die evokes much in a young boy, and it can turn to frightening results if not cared for. Luckily, young Bruce Wayne has dear old Alfred, who insists on doing right for him.
Batman stumbles about his life, and finally realizes he must do good for the world. Why? I’m not sure if he knows. Perhaps it is some innate desire within him. Either way, the reason he fascinates me so is that he does right in all cases, whether in the shadows or in plain sight. Though in his city he is seen as a monster by some, and hero by others, he ignores their critiques and continues to strive for a new world; one that he will fight for in vain.
As stated before in my previous post, a man fights for good against all odds, and never stops. He knows he cannot win. It is as in Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Charge of The Light Brigade. Six hundred men, destined for both glory and death, charge onward “Into the jaws of death, Into the mouth of Hell,” into a great demise. They fought for a victory they could not have.
Batman holds a code of ethics I strongly desire for myself some day. As with the light brigade, he forges onward, exploring a land not dreamed of by anyone else. Those few who share his dream instead explore cowardice, and watch as their world crumbles. Batman will die before surrender, a way of life desired by few.
“But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,”
1 Corinthians 1:27-28