【Film】The Melancholy and Self-Redemption of the New Batman

Although the Batman movie has been filmed too many times, the new chapter of "Batman" is still very much looking forward to, especially due to the impact of the epidemic, Hong Kong theaters have just reopened, and "Batman" has been released in other places last month. It has won a lot of praise for a long time, and it has made local audiences who reluctantly experience jet lag waiting for it (however, it is almost impossible to completely avoid the "explosive" film reviews from other places!), it must become one of the views after the reopening of the movie theater. Movie choice.

endless darkness

Now is the era of superhero film and television. The world is divided by Marvel and DC. The "Batman" series is the highlight of the latter. Christopher Lulan's "Dark Knight Trilogy" has delivered the box office and the film quality is excellent The brilliant achievements set a benchmark for the "Batman" movie. Just when everyone thought that the series of films would be difficult to surpass, Mavis picked up the director's tube "Batman" once again aroused global buzz.

Compared with other superhero movies, whether it is Christopher Lulan's "The Dark Knight Trilogy" or Mavis' "Batman", they all have a different atmosphere, and the emphasis is on superheroes or supervillains The dark side of human nature, in which the "Dark Knight Trilogy" Batman's source of fear was deeply excavated. The third "Batman: Uprising of the Night Gods" even showed the pain and weakness of Batman in the eight years of Shenyin at the beginning.

Mavis' "Batman" draws delicate and sensual brushstrokes on Batman's humanity, focusing on the psychological changes of the protagonist and the creation of drama, and with the melancholy interpretation of the new generation of Batman Robert Patterson, it is quite able to grab the audience. heart of. In fact, with his parents dying early, inheriting a rich family business when he was young, and growing up in the city of all evil, Batman should have more morbidities. The whole film also injects a literary tone into the film with a large number of monologues, which are rare in the previous "Batman" series of films and even superhero films.

"Batman" is set in the hotbed of crime, Getham City. As a nocturnal animal, bats are also in the dark like criminals who do not see light. Batman righteously threw a sentence in the play: "I am the darkness itself." The whole film is like a dark feast, with bright knives and gunfire in the dark, and the dark atmosphere brings a lingering sense of oppression and oppression, endless. The darkness makes one wonder if the light will ever come. Therefore, "Batman" belongs to the movie theater. The small screen at home can't understand the layers and contours of darkness, and there are some wonderful and poetic pictures that are not present. It seems that Batman who is upside down is slowly approaching from the sea of fire. That scene was a still-painted painting titled "Purgatory".

poetic monologue

Mavis's "Batman" story timeline, put on the Batman suit for Booth Wayne, and served as the "Night Watchman" in Getham City for only two years. Booth Wayne fights in his heart from time to time, and seems to be still groping for the responsibility he bears for his family and even the city. Robert Pattison's melancholy face is a chivalrous make-up, which can quite arouse the audience's pity.

Transitioning from the dashing of Christian Bill and the fury of Bing Avery, Robert Paterson has his own twist, playing what may be the most melancholy Batman ever. In this way, he talks about monologues like reciting poems, and gives the film the aesthetic feeling of literary films, which is rarely seen in similar films, which makes people's eyes shine.

struggle between gods

Since "Batman" emphasizes human nature, although Robert Patterson's Batman can defeat a hundred with one hit, he will still be punched and kicked away, he will break out of the siege and run away, he can fly but he will land When he falls to the ground in a bad state, he will throw punches at the enemy frantically until he loses control of his emotions. Batman doesn't call himself a hero who saves the world, he keeps calling himself a "revenge messenger", but he doesn't even know the crime committed by his father. Finally, he is called by the Riddler, and the lynchmen who pointed the gun at the new mayor and the people of Lebanon are all lynchmen. It's even more embarrassing to call himself "Avenger". The difference between Batman and criminals is actually not as big as he imagined. In other words, he struggles between gods and demons all the time, relying on his mentor and even his father-like housekeeper, Fu, and Catwoman, who is also an enemy and a friend. And the trust and gratitude of the people who took his hand to him, that he stayed true to himself and made Batman. To put it bluntly, "Batman" is a story of Batman's search for himself and his redemption.

In the rebooted "Batman", Ah Fu's character is set with a military background, which is similar to Ah Fu in the TV series "Gorham City", and the two Ah Fu also have similarities in their demeanor. As Batman's mentor, Ah Fu fought side by side with him in the protection of Getham City. Of course, he is a pivotal role and deserves more space. It is expected that there will be more descriptions in the sequel. He will be different from the catwoman at the end of the play, the heroic and upright Gordon, the penguin who is just about to move, the riddler who is relentless, etc., to build a wrestling plan for the new world of Batman.

(Original published in the supplement of Hong Kong's "Sing Tao Daily" on April 28, 2022)