CHRISTIAN BALE: //sounds like a road-company version of Wolverine who has just had his vocal cords savaged with a rusty chainsaw after gargling with Drano
MOI: Is he going to talk like that for the entire fucking movie?
T: When he's Batman, yeah.
MOI: ....
(As usual coffeeandink said it best way back when: "(It) ends up endorsing politics I find viscerally repugnant and outright
dangerous. I'm not even sure it meant to--there are some gestures
towards undercutting the fascism and paternalism of the main
storyline--but they're just gestures, and in the end the movie comes
down in favor of the Great Man Theory of History and vigilantism and
lying to people for their own good and making decisions for other people
and good people being good enough to be trusted with supreme power and
violating privacy being okay if your heart is pure and your cause is
true and the dehumanization/demonization of opponents who deserve to be
put down because they're just that crazy/unreachable.
"Some of
this is par for the course for superhero movies, but the movie
foregrounds it instead of making it background wish-fulfillment power
fantasy, which makes it hard to ignore.")
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