What makes TheBatman's version of the Dark Knight so interesting?
The Batman starts out with Robert Pattinson doing his best Rorschach, seething in the voice of our new Caped Crusader. We hear this and see Gotham City, that metropolis of urban ruin we’ve come to know after all its decades onscreen. Always different but always the same. If this isn’t your first Dark Knight rodeo, a sort of muscle memory starts to kick in.
In The Dark Knight, when Joker visits Two-Face at the hospital and murmurs anarchist poison into his ear, we know that Bruce Wayne has officially lost a friend and that Harvey Dent has lost himself. The tragedies in Gotham City aren’t just the civilians, collaterally damaged in this unending war of self-harming depravity, but the damaged people that Batman must save from themselves, lest they become the monsters threatening to consume them.
In Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight, the dreadful agent of chaos that comes striding out of the shadows toward a gathering of outlaws is Heath Ledger’s Joker. In Matt Reeves’ The Batman, that creature is Pattinson’s cowled detective, ready to unleash his dark side on a group of punks who could very well be in high school.
This hero doesn’t even realize he is one until the closing moments of the movie. He never really gets his hug, but the audience gets their first defender of Gotham who is seeped under their skin the way his villains usually are. This isn’t done by giving him uninteresting villains to spar with and overshadow, but with a powerful mix of tragic and unnerving that makes the storytelling in Batman’s universe so often compelling.
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