dang.. hey Jim don't read unless you dont' care about the Batman movie:

































































First of all, let me clear one thing up right away — yes, Bruce Wayne really is still alive at the end. For some reason that escapes me, a segment of fans are insisting it's "open to interpretation" whether Bruce actually is sitting in that cafe, or if it's just Alfred's imagination. But there should be no confusion, the shot of Bruce at the cafe comes amid a montage of scenes showing each person close to Bruce finding out a bit of information revealing Bruce survived the nuclear blast. Lucius finds out Bruce secretly did repair the autopilot on "the Bat," Gordon finds a repaired bat-signal on the roof of the MCU (contrary to some reviewer's misunderstanding, Gordon didn't repair it himself, he walks up and looks shocked to find the new bat-signal, runs a hand over it, grins, and looks around, all in the montage about Bruce's actions), John Blake gets a big bag full of equipment and a GPS locator, and Alfred gets Bruce's money and then sees Bruce at the cafe. Bruce's arc ends with him finally being able to move on with his life, and without that fulfillment Bruce would actually have no true character arc (getting his back fixed and climbing out of the hole to fight Bane again is not a full arc, for those inclined to say the climb out of the pit is the major point in his arc).





I must have had the soundo ff or something 'cause I didn't know any of that stuff.. I'd say I should have paid attention, but that movie was just too long, man.