Due to the film's strong style, it feels like a mythos outlier, but it's basically taking on the mainstream compassionless variety of Batman (the Dark Knight Returns, BvS, etc). Bridging the gap between that and the Conroy version that would comfort dying Ace.

41:30 This is actually my biggest complaint with the film; this scene was such a missed opportunity to have a dramatic hinge point in Bruce's arc tying the side plot about his father into the main story. I wish after saving Selina that Batman's need for closure, his desperation to resolve his parents' deaths, led him to brutally interrogat Falcone about the incident, threatening to kill him, but he has a moment of self awareness before he gets anything out of him and begins to question how far he's gone and whether his motives are really anything but selfish. He then stops Selina from doing what he himself almost did. In my mind, that would've made the whole movie a whole lot better.

Amazing breakdown. Further cements this movie as my favorite batman movie. Great job

Tiddler Almost Succeeded to take out The Batman if Was Vengence & save GothomCity I wood Retire the Mask & leave The City & comeback in 5years

this was the Best Batman movie i ever seen. what drives me Where did Batman Go. When Peguin Was Comeing to Power Btuce Wayne go to Japan. & left Gothom

I swear that quote by the Green Goblin about masks is one of the best ever delivered

To be fair, he’s not wrong to be upset at the suspicion that the woman he likes may be prostituting herself.

Can you do a review of Man of Steel like you did this video? I would love your take on it

I think it’s no wonder that this movie hits a bit too close to home for some people, as the black-and-white good soul/evil soul view of morality is something not uncommon in our society (especially given the massive impact of Christian culture and the idea that people *either* belong in heaven or hell). So many of the flaws in our justice system are due to the fact that many people don’t care about the people it hurts. If you’re a criminal, you’re bad. If you’re bad, you deserve everything that’s coming to you. If you deserve everything that’s coming to you, what’s the point in fixing the justice system, if the only people it hurts are criminals? I love that this film challenges that worldview, showing the complexities of morality, how not only can good people do bad things and bad people do good, but what exactly is a “bad person” or a “good person”? The line is blurrier than Batman thinks in the beginning, and the fact that he can’t see that leads to him being a relentless punisher of vengeance, the holy demon in the night that many see him as, instead of the hero who leads people to do better. The Batman at the beginning of the story wouldn’t congratulate Harley Quinn on getting out of Arkham or empathize with Mr. Freeze. He’d sort them into the bad category, treating Harley with coldness at best and seeing Freeze as just another bad guy to be taken down (part of why I support Mr. Freeze as the next villain). By the end, he’s no longer that hardliner he was at the beginning. He’s not a self-righteous symbol of vengeance; he’s a compassionate symbol of hope. He’s not a punisher of evildoers; he’s a sign that there’s a better way.

This has to be the best analysis I’ve ever seen on KZbin. Thank you.

I remember stumbling upon it as a kid, absolutely amazed by the fact that a show of such quality was on KZbin, I wanted to go to VGHS so bad lol I loved every aspect about it, and I think it really impacted me as a whole, I genuinely don't think I'd be who I am today if it weren't for VGHS

Best Analysis of this film and possibly the character ever. Kudos.

This is a truly incredible video essay about The Batman, and perfectly explains what I love about the film in a way I couldn't properly articulate before! You deserve so many more views and likes, especially on this video!

Amazing video and analysis! Putting it into words really reminds you how awesome and consistent the messaging of the movie is! Perfect fit for a Batman story! Ty

You get a 👍🏼for the 'grey' towel cape dude. I truly understand! 🦇

I don't know what it is with me but this video made me realize I missed 90% of the film's story. I seriously did not realize this film was this deep with themes this fleshed out. I understood the story at a basic level which I always accepted the film was. I did not realize the intricacies and the excellence of how this film tackles its themes. It opened my eyes and had me dumbfounded about how the heck could I have missed so much despite watching it habitually. I'm seriously thankful for this video. This is, the best video essay on this movie and will for sure change the way I watch this movie from now on.

01:59 slick Calhoun reference haha

0:14 Untrue. Batman 1989 doesn't show Batman's origin either. Instead, the movie opens with Batman saving a family in a similar situation as he and his parents were in Crime Alley. Later, Bruce is seen paying respects to his parents in Crime Alley. Aside from that, Batman 1989 does have a brief flashback throughout the movie, but this flashback's purporse is reveal to the audience that Jack Napier (Joker) killee Bruce Wayne's parents.

Bruce’s line “the city is eating itself” made me think of Ouroboros the symbol of the serpent that is eternally eating its own tail. The city’s evil has no beginning or end. Gotham was doomed from its conception and birthed a vigilante that is doomed to never ultimately save it

I realize the video is already five years old, but I'm gonna give my two cents anyway. Maybe you've thought about this already, maybe not. I am gonna disagree with your take on Superman. He's not a superhero purely because of his powers. He has great power yes, but he's a hero because he chooses to do good with his powers. He was raised to do good by the Kents. He just happen to have immensely more power than your normal farm boy from Kansas. And regarding Stephen King's assesment, I refer you to the world of cardboard speech. To be good in such a world, where it's as if everything is made of cardboard, takes immense care not to accidentally cause harm. The power Superman has makes him free to do what he wants. It is his desire to do good that restrains his powers 99% of the time. And as iconic as Joker's "One Bad Day" thing is, the comic where it originates from proves him wrong about it. Gordon had his one bad day right there, as Joker desired. Yet what did he tell Batman? He firmly said he wanted the Joker brought in by the book. The thing is... Batman's worldview isn't so black and white. It may have been in the past, when he was a rookie vigilante. "A young man with trust fund and too much anger" as Alfred put it in Arkham Origins. But in time he grows. When Two-Face goes to surgery to get his damaged half repaired, Bruce Wayne paid for the surgery. When Harley Quinn was declared sane and was about to be released the next day, Batman genuinely congratulated her. And while Harley's attempts at a normal life didn't go the way she wanted, Batman did his best to help her. At the end Harley asked why he would help someone who had given him so much trouble and Batman told her that he knows how hard it is to start a new life. If a criminal can be reformed, and especially if that criminal wants to be reformed, Batman will do his best to help.

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Matt Reeves looks like Ed Norton playing commissioner Gordon

Great video 👍 One thing I haven’t seen that many people talk about is how classism presented in the film. Batman views the issue with Gotham from a very privileged perspective, he thinks from a place that isn’t grounded with what the real issue is with the city. We can see this presented in the film with all the scenes of him standing above the city or looking down on people below him. Bruce manor in this film is a highrise, I think this connects well to what the riddler said “Bruce Wayne isn’t an orphan living in the highrise with all that wealth”, well ofc he is, but he doesn’t understand what it’s like to be one. Anywho, the final fight scene takes place quite literally above the city and only after he “unlearned” we see him on ground level with others. I find that’s why the final 2 scenes of Batman helping the citizens are so powerful. Sorry, I’m writing this at 3:00 am, great video again ❤❤

If James Gunn was smart he would keep Matt reeves even if they don’t keep his Batman. Reeves has a way of reimagining characters

You guys ever wonder if the ridler was doing better work than batman? Besides the whole flood thing ridler was taking out and exposing Gotham's corruption while batman is just beating poor people who have fallen victim to the system

This Batman reminds me a lot of Rorschach, at first.

Perfect video!

peak batman is the one from the 90`s animated series .

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The only Batman movies that exist are Christopher Nolan’s so I don’t know what you’re talking about

you know he's the goat when he's the only one without superpower in a team of super powered beings

Amazing Video for such a small channel. Keep it up!

Bro gave me a whole new view of The Batman

This is one of the best analysis videos i have seen , the production quality and the video itself is great ! kudos

Brilliant stuff mate! Seems like a ton of work but hope you can keep making more of these

Great video! Subscribed!

Beautiful work 🦇

Batman in the beginning of the movie: Vengeance Batman at the end of the movie: Justice

Bruce is like any other privileged person.. Whether it's from money, race, country, caste etc.. Who is insulated from interacting with people from the other side and hence have a black and white view of the world. His world view is broken whne he realises his family, his outlook, his ethos, his ideology... All of it ain't shit. This is the story of capitalist conservative becoming more of a socialist

9:37 genius

lol you made me realize how disrespectful we’ve been to uncle Alfred this whole time. Bruce technically wasn’t an orphan

In you don't like this movie, you don't like Batman

One of the best videos I’ve seen on the Batman. This deserves millions of views.

Wooooah dude this was awesome!!!!! Such a good explanation of his world view.

This was incredibly well done. Just made me love a film I didn't think I could love any more than I already did

You’re misinterpreting Batman’s opinion on Anika. He doesn’t blame her at all and definitely doesn’t think she got what she deserves. In the scene Selina comes to him for help finding Anika and she evokes his mission. This triggers him because from his POV, “If you really stand for what I stand for you would’ve talked your friend who didn’t know any better out of this.” He’s placing Anika’s death squarely on Selina because he thought more of her. When he caught her ripping off penguin that shatters his perception of her.

One of the greatest characters ever written

I had a crazy thought watching this and The Penguin. What if the "kid" in Penguin is actually Robin?! Hear me out, he became an orphan after the mistake of "Vengeance." I totally believe now that at the end of Penguin or the start of "The new Batman" who realizes he is half his dad "good man who messed up" (also like Vengeance) and half crazy mom side rage filled rich kid with the crazy half making the villians "super" now with his ultra violent Vengeance trip. After failing as Vengeance he goes back to his father's dream by helping orphans when we find this kid who is attached to Penguin who learns the street game and has to train himself to think fast to help or die with Oz or the flipside to help and live with The Bat. They keep ramming it home Batman is not in the TV show but I think I figured out "Robin" is going to fly away with the bat after he shuts down Penguin's operation finding an angry kid who hates Batman at first trying to survive because he failed the city so he takes him under his wing and bam you got Robin year 1 in The Batman 2 or The Robin... Might be my first fan fiction, or I spoiled myself either way that is a way that Robin could be introduced instead of the flying Grayson's storyline. Fresh take on, "the boy wonder" and a grant way at actually subverting the Status quo and also doing a susessful race swap without feeling like a gimmick or offencive to people of color.

To quote Garrus Vakarian of Mass Effect fame: Sometimes, you need good people around you to remind you to be good.

Great video Well, see you next year. Hopefully