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
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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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
Oh dear lord, the director still remembers that story?
I mean, idk if it's a literal reference to that story, but they are young goons, some of them POC, seemingly just going around and attacking people for fun/to imitate a new member, so that's where my mind immediately went to (probably because online left people like Felix joke about it)
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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.