Michael Caine's Got a Lot of Nerve

Alfred was originally a like a British soldier in Afghanistan. He's the guy who buoyed Bruce after the death of his parents and taught him how to be man, essentially. So he tells this story in the movie about a Burmese bandit while he's working in Burma. It's an extended metaphor to explain the Joker's methodology. There is no methodology. He just wants to watch the world burn. That's a very iconic line from the movie. But it is also one of those like, as I said during a lot of our conversation about inception, it's just like a movie poppycock nonsense thing. The Kuga Rens. What are we doing in Bur