Moralism and Super Heroes...
I went to see Batman Begins last night with my Beady Eyed friend.
Over the past couple of years- I've been taking another look at Comic book heroes and how it's a great deal deeper than meets the eye.
With Batman- a re-occurring discussion was about balance.
A character representing the personification of Justice played by Katie Holmes as an idealistic lawyer said that Justice is balance. You can't go out taking the law into your own hands and dolling out your own justice, because that's not justice- it's vengeance!
A group of Ninjas (or is it Ninju?) have made it their duty to create the justice and manufacture the balance at the cost of all the people's lives in Gotham City.
Finally- Batman's father was looking at balance from an economic point of view where we all have a responsibility- even the uber-riche... no- especially the uber-riche to ensure that there is a modicum amount of class-balance- and thus became a philanthropic benefactor of many things in the city from public transport to medical facilities.
All things- characters, elements, etc... were very representative. In that way- I think it was better than some other comic book character movies that shall remain nameless that had potential, but didn't nearly go far enough *COUGH- electra* *WHEEEZE-daredevil-HACK*
In conclusion- a great comic book movie is a good pie crust. Not too flaky, a little dry, but not too much so- and lots and lot of layers, and Batman Returns certainly fit the Pie Pan.
Over the past couple of years- I've been taking another look at Comic book heroes and how it's a great deal deeper than meets the eye.
With Batman- a re-occurring discussion was about balance.
A character representing the personification of Justice played by Katie Holmes as an idealistic lawyer said that Justice is balance. You can't go out taking the law into your own hands and dolling out your own justice, because that's not justice- it's vengeance!
A group of Ninjas (or is it Ninju?) have made it their duty to create the justice and manufacture the balance at the cost of all the people's lives in Gotham City.
Finally- Batman's father was looking at balance from an economic point of view where we all have a responsibility- even the uber-riche... no- especially the uber-riche to ensure that there is a modicum amount of class-balance- and thus became a philanthropic benefactor of many things in the city from public transport to medical facilities.
All things- characters, elements, etc... were very representative. In that way- I think it was better than some other comic book character movies that shall remain nameless that had potential, but didn't nearly go far enough *COUGH- electra* *WHEEEZE-daredevil-HACK*
In conclusion- a great comic book movie is a good pie crust. Not too flaky, a little dry, but not too much so- and lots and lot of layers, and Batman Returns certainly fit the Pie Pan.
posted by Mike at 6/23/2005 04:07:00 p.m.
2 Comments:
Meh, I didn't really like it. I thought Christian Bale delivered a one-note performance as Batman. The film got to my head but not to my heart.
I love you even thought you didn't love the film, you're not beady eyed and you're not asian. :)
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