Hero Wisdom

The Batman movies are powerful because they suggest a more realistic and productive way to deal with our negative emotions, especially fear and anger. We do not deny them, oppress them or run from them, but neither do we indulge in them and let them slowly eat us up from the inside.

Many gifted and talented people often find themselves struggling with intense feelings of alienation at one time or another. Kal-El, also known as Clark Kent or Superman, would empathize.

By working with these characters, their stories and their struggles, we cross a symbolic bridge into our own unconscious and subconscious and wrestle with the demons and villains that lie therein.