At a guess I'd say the Bruce she loved went away the day his parents died, and is likely never to return.
Incidentally, Katie Holmes is out in the sequel due out this summer (also starring the lamentably late Heath Ledger) and Maggie Gyllenhall is in in the same role.
Well, I guess it dovetails with the movie's theme of masks and double lives and whatnot--Rachel thought that Bruce had continued to grow up, but he unmasked to her in the car after Chill's release and murder. By the end of the movie, she realizes that the Bruce he revealed to her then is the real Bruce now, only more disciplined and focused and whatnot. She hopes, I guess, that he can put the real mask back on and make it real, becoming the Bruce she grew up with and such.
Maybe. I could be talking out my butt. Could have been a train of thought more fully developed, though, to lend some greater poignancy to that final scene.
I want to say, though, that that's a theme they've developed quite a bit in the comics--that Batman is Batman, and Bruce Wayne is his disguise. Less like, say, Superman or Spider-Man who try to live both lives at once.
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Date: 2008-01-27 04:22 pm (UTC)Incidentally, Katie Holmes is out in the sequel due out this summer (also starring the lamentably late Heath Ledger) and Maggie Gyllenhall is in in the same role.
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Date: 2008-01-27 05:27 pm (UTC)How old were they at the time? Eight? Ten?
OK--I blame dumb screenwriter. But all in all, still a fine movie. Definitely one to watch again.
I read somewhere that Ledger's Joker is really, *really* creepy.
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Date: 2008-01-27 06:40 pm (UTC)Maybe. I could be talking out my butt. Could have been a train of thought more fully developed, though, to lend some greater poignancy to that final scene.
I want to say, though, that that's a theme they've developed quite a bit in the comics--that Batman is Batman, and Bruce Wayne is his disguise. Less like, say, Superman or Spider-Man who try to live both lives at once.