The ending to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, left a lot of fans confused and even years after, star of the film Christian Bale is still being asked about it and he finally weighted in today. While promoting his latest Blockbuster, Exodus: Gods and Kings, a question about the ending of the final film arose while Bale was at Q & A for Entertainment Weekly. The end sequence that had appeared very "dream-like," to a lot of viewers and in his personal opinion, Bale stated, "I find it very interesting, and I think that with most films, I tend to say it’s what the audience thinks it is. My personal opinion is, no, it was not a dream -- that that was for real, and he was just delighted to find that he had freed himself from the privilege but ultimately the burden of being Bruce Wayne." In my own opinion, I agree completely with Bale. I never considered the ending to be a dream sequence, I had just figured he had escaped and left everything in the bat cave over to "Robin," played by Joseph Gordon Levitt. The nod he gave Alfred (Michael Caine), to me, signaled his intentions to return and that his work wasn't done. You can see the entire interview by clicking the link above, what are you thoughts? Did Bale's explanation change the film for you?
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