The Batman: Why This Dark Knight Needs A Robin
Matt Reeves' The Batman has evolved the character of Bruce Wayne like no other Batman film has. The film heavily focuses on the rage within Bruce that drives him to obsess over vengeance but creates an arc for Batman that vengeance isn't necessarily what's going to help the people of Gotham, the people around him, and most importantly for himself. Instead, he needs to be an inspiration of hope to Gotham if he is to help his city be what he hopes it can be.
This arc begins with an echo of the past in the form of the murder of the mayor by The Riddler when the movie introduces Batman to the Mayor's son, who Bruce obviously sees as himself. It's almost a perfect replication of crime alley, the single moment that influences Bruce in everything he does in every single Batman story ever told. It is through the inclusion of the mayor's son that viewers see how Bruce sees himself. He is still that innocent child traumatized and alone driven to punish those he deems guilty with his rage and anger from that day.
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Throughout the film, Batman and Bruce see the child at the crime scene and the funeral, which brings up his own traumas and anger. In the final arc of the movie and the final arc of Bruce himself, he saves the child by showing the kid the version of Batman the criminals don't get to see and the one version of himself he's learned that he needs to be for change to truly begin in Gotham. By leading them from the rubble through the flood of The Riddler's destruction, he gives the child and the people of Gotham a sense of hope, and ostensibly shows himself what he needed when he was the same age when his parents were killed.
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