The entire movie is very much running with “Rich kid with issues beats on poor people” and constantly has characters and the plot force him to evolve past that, or at least, try to in a way that doesn’t feel forced.
Enjoyed the movie until it ended with the very :LIB: message of “trust the police, national guard, and our electoral system to be the real heroes in the end”. Still more fun & better politics (whatever that’s worth) than the Nolan movies tho IMO
It’s the closest any Batman film has gotten to pointing out Batmans whole MO does nothing to stop crime. He does also say the police commissioner deserved to get killed so it gets 5 stars from me.
love pattinson’s wayne, which takes batman seriously, and concludes (rightly) that he must be the product of a developmentally delayed weirdo.
Nobody should ever take Batman seriously. He’s a comic book hero who’s themed after bats. He fights crime because that’s the single least creative thing a comic book hero could do. TBH the 1960s series with POW and ZOINK was the best take on the character and remains so today.
It might be pretty lib to make the choice to begin with but plenty of reactionaries end up transitioning from legitimate systemic grievances to “we need to purge society of unclean elements”
Also its about how its not heroic to just terrorize the lowest rungs of society through random acts of brutal violence, not that I have much hope that whatever film they make next with Pattinson will take care to remember that for when it needs a fight scene.
