Friday, September 20, 2013

Esteva - Batman and Catwoman


 The all time “perfect citizen” of Gotham, Max Shreck, creates Catwoman after he throws his executive assistant, Selina Kyle, through the window and dies. After that moment Selina lost her life, because of some unexplained supernatural cat powers, emerged a new person, Catwoman. This new persona is some kind of villain, which goes around Gotham in a tight black leather suit, that makes every man look twice at her. With the main purpose of destroying her creator, Max Shreck, and get revenge for how bad he treated her.  

      Bruce Wayne met Selina whilst he was in a reunion with her boss, Max Shreck, and instantly you could feel the sexual attraction between both of them.  Then after a while they met as Batman and Catwoman. Even though, Batman was trying to fight her and stop her from her wrongdoings, one could still feel the attraction between the two characters. As the film develops we can se both relationships growing deeper. Bruce and Selina meet several times and every encounter is more passionate and full of energy. On the other hand Batman and Catwoman keep finding themselves at night, each trying to do their own thing, which leads them to fight one another.
     Because they each have two different personalities or personas it is much more difficult to meet, and even more difficult because they are on different sides. Which makes the relationship between Bruce/Batman and Selina/Catwoman a completely different situation than the past relationship the main character had with Vicki Vale, who was just a normal photojournalist.
     Moreover, it also gives the relationship a different “spark” that the other one didn’t have. They can understand each other more easily, because, somehow, they both going through the same thing.

       At the end of the movie we see something totally different in this relationship. Batman shows himself as Bruce Wayne with much more confidence than he did when he was trying to tell Vicki Vale who he was. In my opinion, this happened because he felt related to her. Because, as him, the only thing that Catwoman wanted more than anything was revenge, as Batman wanted with the Joker. Hence, he understood what she was feeling but also knew that the consequences if she killed Max Shreck could have been worse than the actual need for revenge. 

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