Batman Begins

[poliphilo]

1. It's another one of Hollywood's daddy films. Bruce Wayne's daddy is killed and he grows up to be a sulky, emo kid. Then a number of older men- good daddies and bad daddies- mentor him into a shape of which his daddy would be proud. No-one seems to notice that he lost his mommy too.

2. Note to the critics: Crime and Punishment is "dark"; Batman Begins is merely portentous.

3. All those car wrecks and nobody is killed. It's just like The A Team.

4. Batman is mythic. The more you try to fit him into the real world- real politics, real psychology- the more ridiculous he becomes.

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The more you try to make sense of the character- to make the psychology plausible- the crazier it all seems.

I think Tim Burton got it about right. His Gotham is so mad that Batman, in comparison, seems almost sane.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Yes! Tim Burton got it right, I think. His second Batman film was too overwrought for my taste, but that first movie, with Keaton and Nicholson before the camera and Burton behind it, was pretty good, I thought.