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

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He doesn’t literally, but there’s a plot point about how he posts videos on some made up social media website where he has like a bunch of followers and supporters helping him with things like “detonator suggestions”

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It felt more reactionary aesthetics than “militant leftist” aesthetics tbh.

Riddler is basically the /pol/face meme in this movie but instead of crying over the gays and the minorities, he’s crying that bruce wayne got a lollypop while rats were eating babies in his abandoned orphanage.

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The first scene in the movie with Batman is him beating up a bunch of young hooligans playing the knockout game and recording themselves doing so, presumably to post online

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Oh dear lord, the director still remembers that story?

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