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

  • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    you already know it because we obviously both saw Shaun's new video yesterday, but i'd just like to mention that CW homophobia

    spoiler

    Rowling also intended the werewolves to be a metaphor for HIV and the leader of the werewolves systematically infects children with lycanthropy.

    • Barabas [he/him]
      ·
      3 years ago

      Oh, he finally released it. He has been discussing it a lot on streams, which is why I remember it.

      • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        it's good, too. as thorough a takedown of the book's ideology as you'd expect from skullboi.