“but he opened up a much darker portrayal for comic book villains as the way they should be: human.”
I agree completely.
The ruthless insanity, as conveyed by the principal, is shocking and terrifying. As are the events that nurtured the the madness.
And it is human madness, steeped in human events.
It’s not a cartoon.
It’s a classic Greek Tragedy.
Not sure about classic Greek tragedy because I think there has to be connection with mythology. Someone with a degree in that study should correct me. But as a tragic villian as Aristotle desired tragedies to be, I agree. It makes you root for the bad guy.
that’s what I look for in movies- a real good backstory that exposes a character’s current state of mind- sounds liek it might be a good movie- but I’ll have to watch it alone- family might think it too rough-