More than appreciably darker, Batman Begins tackles the story's essential Freudian/Jungian mooring, returning over and over to the dank, vaginal tunnel that a young Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) has tied inextricably to the death of his parents until the moment that a grown Bruce, after a self-imposed exile of seven years, penetrates the black pit of his divorce from his parents to find himself reborn, as it were, underground.
Throughout, Bruce is compared against his philanthropist father to the point where the lead villain confesses that the fate of Gotham was postponed for a time by daddy's example and eventual martyrdom. They're comparisons that inspire Bruce, in billionaire playboy mode, to ruin his family's name with unpleasant drunken outbursts, high profile stunts with supermodels, and general strutting and preening in the American Psycho mold.
Heady stuff, to be sure, made brilliant as it's married to a narrative about a group of moral absolutists seeking to impose their version of morality on thousands, nay, millions of innocent souls that is as topical as it is loaded.
The film works as a commentary on not only Osama Bin Laden's crusade against the West, but also Bush Jr.'s crusade against the Middle East. It's all about fear and loathing, this high profile, big-budget product of a post-millennial United States--and it's about as good as it gets
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