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A Surprisingly Good Film
PostedJuly 21, 2008
TheEnglishSnob
from Cincinnati, OH
I’m not as familiar with the The Batman franchise as many people who saw the film. Nor was I expecting much more that this year’s hit hot blockbuster with explosions and an antihero battling a villain, both with messed up pasts who took different routes in dealing with their neurosis.
Instead, the film turned out to be a very dark, barebones, philosophical thrill ride. That doesn’t happen often in philosophy. Some of that philosophical probing was on the surface; how does chaos differ from random choice, how do these affect a set system of justice, can a corrupt system work better, with it’s ability to adapt to a specific use, than a rigid model of justice based on an ultimate ideal? The concept of Irresistible object meeting an unstoppable force was in a line.
Some of those mind games were played out nicely in models. Would you kill one man if it saved many innocent lives (this one was played out quite a few times in some new ways)? Would you kill someone else you don’t see and won’t know to save your own life?
In the end, it is not that the film raised these issues and dealt with their complex real-world (so to speak) implications, but that it did so in a seamless and very dark way.
The acting was mostly very convincing. The staging was artistic and startling. In essence, this was not the forget-the-plot-five-steps-from-the-theater-shoot-em-up-bang-bang-justice-is-good kind of movie I expected. It was a film, with car chases and explosions.
Yes, I recommend this movie.
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