Lessons from a Superhero Movie

So “The Dark Knight Rises” mania has got on alike to every superhero flicks’ fan, and to those who went to watch this one because of the hype created all over about how great this epic conclusion to the trilogy is. However, rarely do the superhero movies leave a lasting impact on our indifferent minds, since they are mostly supposed to take you to an imaginative journey where nothing seems impossible, and no action seems unreal. This time, however, TDKR left me thinking about it much longer than any other film has. Not because I am a superhero movies’ fan and had been waiting for this to release since I first saw the teaser poster on the internet, but because the movie actually had so many things to learn as a simple human being. I had been thinking about them – the dialogues which are not mere dialogues but unforgettable sayings, and so I chose to type them and share.

-         To any big purpose to your life, you have to give nothing less than everything. Recall the scene where Selina Kyle is trying to talk Batman into leaving Gotham. She says, “You don’t owe these people anymore. You’ve given them everything.” To this the Batman replies, “Not Everything. Not Yet.”

-          You are as old and tired as your spirit is. Recall the scene in which a worn out, beaten and tired Bruce makes several attempts to escape from the prison, only to succeed at last. And it was Bruce who did it, not the Batman, who had to nothing more than his undying zeal to accomplish his escape.

-          A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a little boy's shoulders to let him know that the world hadn't ended. Indeed. We need not save the world from the Armageddon to be called Heroes. Extending a helping hand should be enough most of the times.

-          Suffering builds character. There cannot be anything closer to the truth than this dialogue by the character Talia in the movie. The people with strongest characters – good or bad – are built because these people suffered. A lot.

-          Maybe it’s time we stop trying to avoid the truth and let it have its day.  I could not use any other lesson better than this one at the moment. Truth, no matter how harsh it is, does least damage when accepted the earliest.

-          The knife that waits years without forgetting that slips quietly in between the bones and cuts deepest. There is no stronger feeling known to mankind than vengeance. The longer it lasts, more destructive it becomes, albeit to both.

(Compiled from the movie The Dark Knight Rises)