While Batman appeases flashy booms, it isn’t devoid of substance, otherwise it’d been received lukewarm like Spiderman 3 or X-men 3, and as much as I hate the term, “post-9/11” to describe a film, very much represents an underlying fear that is re-asserted throughout the film. It seems rather interesting that they’d chose a mechanism that directly involves wiretapping since the script could have called for so many other random fantastical gadgets that could assist the caped crusader, as after all this is just an excuse to seeing people get punched in the mouth right?
Then it goes the extra mile with the purporting Batman’s character as taking the fall knowing he inevitably got the end result desired. Then there’s other issues like torture vs no torture (Batman vs Dent) where Batman is [spoiler] justified beating Joker a little in custody to give the illusion of an unsafe environment BUT not too much (only good torture is allowed like Water Boarding), the grainy forced confession videos filmed in non-desrcript areas and the forced read statement by the security guard, the suicide bomber and so forth.[/spoiler]
Hell the[spoiler] suicide bomber was lied to by the Joker[/spoiler], duped into the situation. I’d argue that this was very much a pity cry for those suckered into [spoiler]ending their own life and how they’re tricked into carrying out a suicide bombing[/spoiler]. The more I think about this, the more it becomes clear. Even Batman goes across [spoiler]international boundaries to apprehend the man guilty of heading up the finances for the crime group.[/spoiler] Fuck international law and due process, this is America!
I’m standing by that this was clearly wasn’t coincidence. My regret is it took me a few days to really make the conclusion rather than the moment I walked out of the theater at 3 am.
