Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy is not a movie series but a great philosophy-Part 2

In part 1, we discussed Bruce’s childhood, which was impacted by his parent’s death and he had guilt that his fear of Bats was responsible for his parent’s death.

This grief and guilt kept growing with Bruce’s age and he tried to kill the guy who murdered his parents.

Batman Begins is all about a fight going in Bruce’s mind, what is right what is wrong, and revenge.

Every person who is young, this fight exists, but for Bruce, this is much more intensive, because of his parents’ death.

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Back to the Story, after having harsh words from Rachel, Bruce goes to meet Falcone, and his guards beat Bruce, also Falcone says bad words about his father. But what impacts Bruce most is Flacone saying to Bruce that real power comes from being feared.

Bruce now thinks that he needs to get rid of his fear, fear of everything, being beaten, being dead, and everything.

So Bruce decided that he would leave his comfort zone and start living alone, fighting with bad people, so he leaves Gotham and spends 7 years traveling the world, not a fancy world like Paris, venus but a ruff world with ruff people.

While traveling he decides that he will learn physical fighting with criminals and also tries to understand the criminals, as his parents were killed by a criminal.

As a viewer we see Bruce is not afraid of fighting, he used to fight, used to be in prison, and it was his regular life now, away from a rich life he is spending time in prison and trying to understand the criminals.

Now Bruce is in Bhutan and in prison, he was visited by a guy called Henry Ducard, played by Liam Neeson.

Now one more turn Bruce’s life happens.

Henry says he belongs to League of Shadows, a team led by Ra’s al Ghul, and these guys are trying to finish crime and create a new and clean world where no one would get murdered, no one would get orphaned, it was really appealing to Bruce, he feels like after 7 years finally, he got a breakthrough.

So far we have seen Bruce is very angry with criminals and the reason was justified, losing parents before one’s eyes is the worst experience of anyone’s life and we can understand how Bruce was feeling.

Henry Ducard is now Bruce’s trainer who trains Bruces very hard, Bruces starts feeling that he is on the right track

Ra’s al Ghul is the messiah for people like Bruce and he is doing the right job.

But another turning point comes in Bruce’s life, we know Bruce’s life is full of turning points and he has to make so many decisions, just like us, we also have a lot of things to decide, but doing the right thing and taking the right decision is important, and that is what Nolan wanted to show here.

At the end of the training, Henry says that Gotham needs to be destroyed. It has become the center of crime and to make a new Gotham they need to kill all the criminals for a start, Bruce needs to kill a man who is a criminal as per Henry.

We should remember that Bruce hates criminals, and the only goal of his life is to finish the crime, still, Bruce refuses to kill the man as there was no justice system that listened to that guy and he had no chance to prove himself that he is not guilty.

Bruce denies killing the man and escaping from the place, while escaping he had to fight with the people of League of Shadows, while escaping he saves Henry Ducard, and he thinks he killed Ra’s Al Ghoul.

This was the most important turning point in Bruce’s life and he is clear what he needs to do in life.

He wants to finish the Crime, not the Criminals, he wants to finish Organized Crime, like drug trafficking, abductions, etc.

Bruce is now very mature and this sets the stage for Batman’s Character.

In Chapter 2 how Bruce becomes Batman.

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