The perspective with which Matt Reeves refurbishes is truly fascinating the universe of Batman, the masked executioner of Gotham City. The change of gear that he imposes on the psychology of the Dark Knight is original, returning to the problem that is the basis of his choices. The Bat Man by Robert Pattinson a young man struggling with the memory of his parents and the faults attributed to his philanthropist fatherin search of an identity, torn and dismayed in the face of a world of corruption and violence in which the weak are trampled on and there seems to be no remedy for evil except by taking to the streets to throw punches under a mask and cloak. I am revenge, but revenge does not change the past.
In the three hours of film, Bruce Wayne just became Bat-Man. When we meet him a perceptive detective with dark circles, long beard and a heavy armored suit, encouraged in apprenticeship by Commissioner James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright) and Pap butler Alfred Pennyworth (Andy Serkis). A predestined. Struggling with the batcave arsenal, endowed with a strong social sensitivity, heir to the family billions, ready to sacrifice himself for the last ones, with a strong thirst for justice. Tenerello in love, ghostly in appearance, ready to shoot when the bat-signal rises in the sky of Gotham City.
But Reeves, who comes from The Planet of the Apesdoes more: Far beyond the intentions of Bob Kane and Bill Finger, who created the character in 1939, his disheveled Batman must reckon 1) with the pandemic danger, signaled by that bat caged in the laboratory; 2) with the risk of global pollution from which everyone protects themselves; And 3) with the depression of a world with no more innocence, dominated by the lies of the powerfuldesperate for hope, where it rains without interruption and the spread of the underworld seems to be at the point of no return.
The criminal system has reached the highest levels, the most fragile they channel their anger by choosing the crime, in a mystical delirium that consigns them to madness. Reeves composes acidic atmospheres by lighting his hell with a gallery of quotes that he includes all previous films in the DC Comics sagafrom Tim Burton to Christopher Nolan, and a refined cinephile world that goes from The window on the courtyard a Blade Runner until the Joker at Joaquin Phoenix. The Batman it starts with a man watching what happens in the building opposite.
We are in the week of Halloween and a killer is circulating in Gotham with the chisel that blows the powerful, starting with the mayor, disguised in a camouflage suit and a gas mask. the Riddler (Paul Dano), here very different from the character in comic stories dressed in green and covered with question marks. His aspiration to drown Gotham and ride mass chaos in the name of class struggle, leaving key riddles around.
Its origins (not to be revealed) explain at least in part the mystery and the final meeting with the brilliant Joker (Barry Keoghan). Investigating and suffering, The Batman meets the Penguin (an unrecognizable Colin Farrell), club manager and intrigue collector, gangster Carmine Falcone (John Turturro), the city’s dirty business terminal, and seductive Catwoman / Selina Kyle (Zo Kravitz). Batman does not kill, a pacifist hero who fights with his bare hands, sleepless and emaciated, lacking in affection. The story lends itself to multiple levels of reading, including political ones. But Reeves settles on the scheme of the detective story classic, modifying the characters according to the message and an evident aspiration to the cinecomic of the author. Former vampire Robert Pattinson adds a contemporaneity to the character which immediately makes him more lovable than all the performers who have succeeded in the role: Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, Ben Affleck. Three hours of film are not few, but perhaps this is the right dimension for that satisfying and total show that the viewer is looking for as a reaction to the pandemic detachment.
THE BATMAN di Matt Reeves
(Usa, 2022, duration 175 ‘)
con Robert Pattinson, Zo Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Colin Farrell
Rating: **** out of 5
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5 March 2022 | 08:36
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