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I imagine I might regret asking this, but really, Papers? I'd watch it again, and it'd be far from a chore, but I doubt I'd see much more than Katie Holmes being a moral compass and pushing really the only one aspect of Batman, the anti-gun, that prevents the character being a complete right-wing wet dream. I mean, she's about the only female character and so, I suppose, in a kinda Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels way I suppose you could construe the film as excluding of women and thereby somewhat sexist, but even that seems a stretch. So - really???
Actually, I'm far more troubled by the fact that MY PARENTS ARE DEAD!!!11!! in so far as the movie is concerned, is transmuted to "My parents are dead. And by 'parents,' I mean my Wonderful Supremely Wicked Daddy and that woman that we'll refer to once as my mother and ultimately fail to acknowledge for the rest of the movie. Even when she's in the picture, standing next to Daddy.' At least in Superman Returns Martha Kent was a presence, even if she was often a silent one; Martha Wayne doesn't even get that.
Katie Holmes was badly miscast and ultimately the character failed on the grounds that it wasn't realistic to me that she'd make it to Assistant D.A. They couldn't keep her intelligence straight, either; it seems ridiculous that when a character is shown in one scene to drive a car and be fully aware of how dangerous it is to be out in the bad part of Gotham, that in a few short scenes she'll take the exceedingly decayed skytrain system by herself, at midnight.
It's not so much that it's a "No women!" argument as it is that the two particularly significant women in the story, his mother and his friend/girlfriend/confidante appear to be (in the case of his mother) barely acknowledged as having any kind of influence on his upbringing or value system or (in the case of Holmes's character) poorly written and inconsistent with regard to basic intelligence. |
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