Batman's Not Emo!

But Christian Bale is certainly giving us insight to the emotional side of The Dark Knight. He talks with Newsday and this is his current take:

It's now the question of the burden and toll of what he's doing, the question can this be a finite endeavor. Is this something that has an end? Can he quit and have an ordinary life? The kind of manic intensity someone has to have to maintain the passion and the anger that they felt as a child, takes an effort after awhile, to keep doing that. At some point, you have to exorcise your demons. That's what I love about Batman. There's so much that is about character.

Batman is a complex character, having both emotional and psychological issues that burden him with his life as Batman and Bruce Wayne. And I think this will be the first Batman movie where this will get explored. If anyone can do it, its the dynamic duo Bale and Nolan. Pun intended.