🎀 27/12/2023 Quick Life Update and The Batman Ramblings 🎀

Disclaimer: This post contains spoilers for The Batman (2022).

Happy Holidays Angels! 💫  It's been a while hasn't it? 💢 Happy Holidays 💕 

Despite wanting to blog more frequently, my work schedule has been hectic since the Thanksgiving break;; Plus my personal life got overwhelmed by the passing of a close relative. Needless to say, time kept escaping me while I was offline. I'm taking advantage of the time off from work to get back to normal. I've been hanging out with friends I haven't seen in a long time, baking and taking well-deserved naps in the afternoons 🌸

On Nochebuena my parents and I watched The Batman and I'm completely obsessed. I've spent the last three days watching video essays on it while listening to the official soundtrack! I'll admit that I never cared much for Bruce Wayne. I don't know much about him beyond the basic lore and fragments of what I remember from my dad watching the other Batman movies. When I thought about Batman beforehand I pictured some unapproachable man in his forties who reveled in being a playboy throughout the day and changed into black tights to use fancy gadgets against villains of the week at night. It's not that I hated his characterization, I just didn't care and honestly found his opponents or his adoptive children, especially Dick Grayson, more interesting than himself.  

I'm drawn to Matt Reeve's interpretation of The Caped Crusader because he is unsure of where he stands as a vigilante, only knowing that he feels compelled to be one out of guilt for the death of his parents. He's not elegant or suave. And I know there's a lot of commentary surrounding how Robert Pattinson doesn't emote much in the film but I think they don’t see how this Bruce Wayne is always fighting the urge to burst. We see him crack through his emotional frenzies when he almost kills a man for trying to strangle Selina Kyle or when he attempts to break a glass barrier to presumably charge at The Riddler towards the end of their confrontation. He has yet to heal his inner child and it's something I didn't expect for a Batman movie to elaborate on in this manner. Plus it is refreshing seeing Batman fail a landing, and get knocked off his feet multiple times when he's distressed. It humanizes him. Despite being the story's greatest detective even his deduction skills are imperfect and believably so. His judgment clouds as his temperament is agitated when he believes Selina Kyle has a sexual/romantic relationship with Carmine Falcone which costs him the mission at hand and Selina's alliance at that moment. 

Catwoman is a wonderful supporting character and a nice foil to Batman. Both are orphaned at a young age yet because of their different class statuses, Selina needed to become self-reliant and transform into Catwoman to survive. Meanwhile Bruce chooses to play dress up when he could turn to therapy instead. Selina calling Bruce out for growing up rich was a well-deserved reality check that helped his character grow.

In short, I have a lot to say but feel very disorganized in my thoughts. I've only seen the movie through its Latin American dub and might watch it again in English. I wish I had more people around me to talk about The Batman with but so far the only friend I've shared my thoughts with doesn't share my enthusiasm 😓

If you made it to the end, thank you so much for taking the time to read my fan ramble!🌺 Feel free to share your thoughts on the matter too! Did you like the movie? Did you hate it?! I would love to read your opinions! See you next time!! 💌⭐