The Batman director Matt Reeves on motivation behind Robert Pattinson’s superhero: ‘He’s doing this to get back at what happened to him’
In this interview, The Batman director Matt Reeves talks about what he meant to say with the movie, what he unexpectedly anticipated and whether he’s thinking about what comes next for the Caped Crusader.
Written by Dave Itzkoff
You could see the ending of The Batman as a victory: our hero (Robert Pattinson) has halted the murderous rampage of the Riddler (Paul Dano), putting him behind bars and finding a new sense of purpose as he helps rebuild Gotham City.
Or you could see the conclusion as a disaster, with Gotham flooded and ruined, the Penguin (Colin Farrell) claiming a top position of power in the city’s criminal underworld and Selina Kyle (Zoë Kravitz) leaving Batman behind as she hops a motorcycle out of town.
Matt Reeves, the director and co-writer of The Batman, has explained that certain ambiguities in the film were intentional, especially as the title character reconsiders his relentless approach to fighting crime.
“As a fan, I feel the same thing,” Reeves said in a recent interview. “There’s a part of you that wants to see somebody get vengeance — that’s the wish fulfillment of that idea. What was important was to bring the audience along and make them question it, so that they’d be like, Wait, is that right? Is that really what we should be doing?”
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There are also aspects of the film’s ending that Reeves said were not totally intentional, like the frightening ways in which it seems to parallel the US Capitol riot and other events.
In these edited excerpts from that interview with Reeves, he talks about what he meant to say with The Batman, what he unexpectedly anticipated and whether he’s thinking about what comes next for the Caped Crusader.
