Catwoman is a very complex character. Nobody really knows if she is good or evil. We see her good side when she saves a woman from being assaulted by a robber, but we could argue that she did not do that out of the kindness of her heart - she did it because she hates how women are treated in Gothem's patriarchal society. One thing we know for certain is that her dark side is much more prominent. While she certainly isn't what you would call a hero, it may be kind of harsh to call her a villainess. After all, she only targets the people who have wronged her. From the moment she was reborn as Catwoman, she had one goal: to get revenge on Max Shrek (the man who attempted to kill her). She blows up Shrek's department store, teams up with Penguin to get rid of Batman (who she thought would try to stop her from accomplishing her mission), and eventually succeeds in killing Max. The fact that she is out for blood, is what complicates her and Batman's relationship. Both sides of his identity are attracted to Catwoman and her duel identities. As Selina and Bruce, they have a very steamy, easygoing relationship, but once they find out that they both have a secret side, their relationship gets rather sticky- mostly because whenever the two had met as their masked characters, Catwoman had always managed to harm Batman in some way…or at least get in the way of his mission. Likewise, Catwoman may hold a lot of resentment towards Batman for getting in the way of her mission. While Batman wishes to keep the peace, Catwoman causes a lot of chaos. We see the complexity of their relationship during one of the ending scenes where Catwoman is about to kill Shrek. She is finally able to do justice to herself by killing Max, but Batman tries to stop her. He says that they should call the cops and have him arrested instead. He tries to persuade her by inviting her to come home with him. She hesitates for a moment, especially when he calls her Selina, but then she tells Bruce that she could not live with herself if she let him go. She kills Shrek (and takes one of her nine lives as well) by electrifying both of their tongues with a tazer. At first Bruce thinks that she is dead, but when he is in the car on his way home with Alfred, he sees her shadow. The movie ends before we can see what becomes of their relationship, but Catwoman appears to be a very independent woman who can't be tamed.
isn't it so cool that she died and was basically re-born as the person she wished to be in her past life? I thought that was a very interesting character development. She says at the end of the movie that the law doesn't apply to people like Shrek and like her and Batman, but it seems more like laws just don't apply in general at all in Gotham. That is what is the problem with the city as a whole, no one listens to the rules, Batman included. Batman thinks that he is more morally correct than Cat Women, but is he actually? I mean he kills people, just like she does, when he could send them to jail, as he suggested to Selina when she wanted to kill Shrek. Cat Women and Batman are nearly at the same level of "good morality", Cat Women just doesn't try to pretend by adding another mask on.
ReplyDelete-Cristina Suarez