Pattinson’s take on the Batman is pretty interesting to watch unfold on the screen.

Pattinson’s take on the Batman is pretty interesting to watch unfold on the screen. While I had a feeling that he’ll be “Travis Pickle”, or “Ryan Gosling”, he took me of guard. Elements of those are still there, This Batman is so damaged that he writes a diary and has zero social skills, even his Bruce is as lonely and introverted, unlike the charming playboy he usually is.

All that said, this is still Batman, a man who tries to ascend his mortal status to be more than a man, a menacing force of nature, a looming presence, the peak of human abilities in mind/muscles and perseverance.

Thus, the brilliance of this take on Batman, is that he is all of the above, a broken boy but a demigod. A source of fear who can still feel fear himself. A shining example of what a man can be, but he is an emo loser, good at what he does but still has too much to learn.

It uses it’s status as an origin story to be the power fantasy of a Batman fan yet a deconstruction of the Batman image in pop culture.