A beautifully created masterpiece disguised as a Batman movie

Rating: 10/10 (12 August 2016)

This trilogy has truly become part of the top trilogies of all-time. It is an artistic masterpiece disguised as a Batman movie. There is enough foreshadowing, motifs, & symbolism in these movies to make a Harvard English professor cry tears of joy.
Prison pit scene spoiler***
The prison pit scene might be the best scene in this entire trilogy, but without understanding the 1st movie you'll miss the beauty of it. I'll set the stage........As a boy, Bruce Wayne falls into a pit in his backyard which is full of bats. His father has to climb down to save him and teaches him that the reason we fall is to learn to pick ourselves up; beautiful. He becomes batman because he is afraid of bats and he wants to become his fear; beautiful. Fast forward to the pit scene now after his first two jump attempts failed. The doctor tells him that he has to make the jump without the safety rope; scary. But he explains that this is the only way that he will make the climb because he will be fearing death; beautiful. Just before he attempts the climb a third time, he has a flashback of his dad saving him in the pit when he was a boy; beautiful. Just before he start to climb he asks the translator what the prisoners were chanting....he responds, "Rise"; beautiful. When he is at the top just before the jump, bats fly out of the cave walls; beautiful. All of it is beautiful. I'm telling you, these movies are works of art disguised as Batman movies.