Batman Begins - The Movie

July 19th 2005

Nathan Crowley

I saw Batman Begins at 12:01, and now it's 7:38, why can I not sleep past sun-time? Oh, well, I'm running on three and half-hours of sleep, it's ok though. The movie was pretty good actually, I still like the 1989 "Batman" more, but it'll always remain the best to me I think; I love that movie.

In this movie however, I couldn't help but see the evil guy (Liam Nieson) being George W. Bush, and his little ninja lemmings as being the Republican Party. They spout the words of someone working for good, when their policies of how they attain their ends are overtly bad and evil, and unjust. They talk of justice, yet do not believe in trials because of corruption in the courts (sound like a friend of ours?)

Batman is the working class, or the working class party. He saw that back-in-the-day there were a few good capitalists who tried to give back to society, but they've come and gone. It's time to take action and liberate the poor from their disparaging positions, and he did just that. Just when the evil corporationalist elite were about to be successful in their total corruption of the city (one way was "going public"), Batman stepped in and bought enough shares to turn the company around.

Now, with my little editorial, it seems as if I think buying stocks is nice and dandy...well, I don't. I think the whole system needed over-haul, which he realized. The capitalist ruling class is only in power as long as we, the working class, and some of our allies in the "higher-ups" (they DO exist) allow them to. The only way to rid ourselves of capitalist greed and corruption is to revolt. Does it require weapons and death?? Maybe so, we may never know unless we rise up and demand our rights be recognized! It might not need death and destruction, as John Lennon said: "But when you talk about destruction, Don't you know you can count me out...”. Sorry, but me, being a non-drugged youth of our corporate, greed-driven nation cannot sit by and believe that a revolution involving violence should be counted out. We need a solution now before we lose our rights entirely, before we lose our planet, before we lose our labor unions, etc. We must revolt, and maybe our only current hindrance is that we don't have a symbol.

What sort of symbol are we waiting for? In order for the masses to take action, they generally need the reassurance that they won’t be the only one in their endeavor. Who will be the first to take action? In the early part of the last century we had Eugene V. Debs a personal hero of mine, and a wonderful man of the day. Today we have Bernie Sanders (I – Vermont) who helps to lead the progressive agenda in the House of Representatives…that’s right folks; we have a socialist congressman. Also, he is planning to run for senate in 2006 and is projected to win. Maybe he can be our symbol? I think we need a bit more actually. With men like him we have our faith restored in the system, and then we believe that the “democratic” system will help pull us from the mire. However, with the corporate/capitalist driven system we have, even great men can’t break the mold, they can just change the color of the substance inside. So, we need a mold shattering idea, we need something that will be “heard around the world”, we need a modern-day guillotine to scare the oppressive ruling elite into submission.

It may sound horrible to hear, but in order to have successful reform of this innately corrupt system, we NEED revolution. We cannot let little steps be taken towards reform, no, this will only further the problem. False hope is worse than no hope. I hate to say it, as I plan to be a politician, but the only way to create revolution is to let the capitalist ruling elite make themselves so oppressive that the global working class revolts in such a violent manner that world hasn’t seen in an industrialized nation since 1917.

Well, thanks for reading my review, hopefully you like it, if not, sorry, you’ll soon be overthrown. :]

By Tony Kaminski
Freelance Writer