It also does that trope where it has the revolutionary “villain” fighting to expose the systemic corruption be/act so unhinged and do evil things as to give justification that their critiques are wrong. It’s a really well made, entertaining movie, but it’s themes are just such weak centrist bs that I couldn’t ignore it.
I wrote about it more in-depth here if you’re interested: https://letterboxd.com/peytobrock/film/the-batman/
EDIT: this is a write-up by a critic I really like that’s even better than what I wrote: https://www.patreon.com/posts/63389248
Here is my villain Hiruto X Hans, he does a lengthy speech about Social Darwinism on a war altar of zombified salary men. Am I critiquing neoliberal “meritocracy” or am I celebrating fascism? Who can say, anyway, our hero Battle Suit Makoto refutes his speech by having more fighting spirit
