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]

He casts a long shadow- even though he's desperately out of fashion.

[sovay]

He casts a long shadow- even though he's desperately out of fashion.

He was out of fashion by Spellbound, and that was 1945. The one good piece in that movie is Salvador Dalí's dream sequence, and then Hitchcock explains every single component of it with thudding precision. After which I would have thought that screenwriters would stop using Freud to mean "and between step two and step three, a miracle occurs," but it's still going!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

There's a Dali museum in London which has a part of the huge curtain covered in eyes that Dali painted for the nightclub sequence in Spellbound.