10 Things You Can Expect From Ben Affleck's Batman Movie

4. Left-Wing Political Subtext

For all their greatness, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight movies are, on close inspection, also troublingly right-leaning. The Dark Knight Rises is a prime example, a movie in which the poor rise up against inequality and the powerful elite, only to be defeated by the rich capitalists, who are positioned as the heroes against the downtrodden revolutionary villains. You wouldn't find anything like that in a Ben Affleck-directed Batman movie. In public life, Affleck is a famous liberal, activist and supporter of the Democrat Party, while he's tied to a number of humanitarian organisations, such as the Eastern Congo Initiative and Paralyzed Veterans of America. Affleck's films as director testify to his conscientiousness - Gone Baby Gone and The Town treat working class discontent and the rich-poor divide with characteristic understanding, while Argo handles a tricky political situation with similar sensitivity. As Nolan covertly inserted his own conservative views into The Dark Knight trilogy, so Affleck could give audiences the first truly conscientious Batman movie, one that doesn't just view Gotham's dirty underbelly with contempt.