The first two Batman films in Christopher Nolan's new trilogy have 2 central, penetrating themes.
1.People searching deep inside themselves to find out who they truly are, and what they truly believe in.
2.People wanting desperately for others to understand them.
Batman has always been the story of a man on a neverending journey to struggle with his own demons by struggling with the demons of others.
It makes for a tragic, heroic, tale, but it does not offer a solution to the vicious cycle Bruce and the criminals he locks himself in combat are trapped in.
The solution lies beyond the delimited world of Gotham's Dark Knight, in the hearts and minds of the fellow human beings surrounding it.
When children are raised to express their feelings freely, and adults feel they can express their feelings without fear of rebuke or retribution, the noble, but finally, unfulfilling tale of one man trying to save everyone, will have served its purpose : to galvanize people to realizing that the solution to human problems is not to pound them with fists, but to feel them, and then express those feelings, freely and openly, with the maturity of knowing that not doing so, burying them in logic and denial, only causes them to manifest in perversions of healthy human behavior.
The story of the Dark Knight has eternal human lessons to teach.
Such is the way of stories, their ultimate goal being the growth of the story receiver.
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