Anyone read the ending?
I did not like it at first, but then I realized what it is addressing, you see we can say that its sort of an "anti-war" message at the end, but the best part about the ending was probably the both of them having the same shirts with the Billy Bat icon on them, does not that speak that all wars, all battles are indeed "brother fighting brother"? It's like the same old Cain and Able story over and over again? The realization that there is no "enemy" but that we are all eachothers enemies? That the enemy is within? And that there could not possible be no "enemy" since its humans against humans in each instance?
The metaphor of the artist is that he has a power that through storytelling he can perhaps better humanity and get to a "good" ending without the same old bloodshed, because all stories of war are the same, the best an artist can do is write the one where we actually "survive".