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Batman Returns (1992)
Batman, for all his shrouded mystery, is just a cop whose role is
to protect the entrenched power structure--which not incidentally
includes protecting Bruce Wayne's fortune from so-called "criminals"
who might want to redistribute the wealth. When Catwoman Michelle
Pfeiffer finds a woman being raped in a dark alley, she dispenses
with the rapist, then looks contemptuously at the woman and says:
"What were you waiting for? Batman to come along and rescue you?" Women
need not appeal to cops and other men in power to rescue them from
domestic violence and rape; they should seize power for themselves. And
contrary to the Batman Returns message, power doesn't mean dressing up
in a cat costume. It means joining a revolutionary party to overthrow
the imperialist patriarchy.