Ugh, I don't like Batman... so my initial reaction is to be super defensive about that, but I can see what you mean - just in terms of tone, it's similar to Nolan, I suppose. But yeah, I liked Daredevil, but I really don't enjoy the Batman movies, so similar or not, whatever they're doing differently is different enough for me.
Anyway, ah! I understand what you meant now by "doing all the stuff" - and yeah, you're right, it doesn't make sense. Especially the idea that Matt hasn't killed anyone, because he totally has - unless he has some how convinced himself that Nobu lit himself on fire and burned to death all on his own without any help from Matt.
And when he threw that dude off the building, he had to PAUSE to check that he was a live - which to me, in that scene, read like he really didn't care. Likewise, when he's helping Stick, he knocks one of Nobu's men in the head (smack in the temple) causing him to fall into the water... now, I've never personally been hit in the temple by something going at a great speed, but my sister has, and there is absolutely no way she would have survived if someone had immediately thrown her into a river. She couldn't even stand. So, Matt must have this weird line in his head that is all about intent - like, people dying of the wounds he inflicts is fine, just so long as Matt didn't set out that night specifically to murder them.
And yeah, it would have been good for that to be explored a little more. But, I was willing to overlook it, because I liked the whole conflict with whether his end game should be murder or the law... mainly, I guess, because it was a conflict about which identity was the stronger of the two - the Devil or Matt. And I liked exploring that, even if I had to overlook the fact that obviously the Devil wins in terms of "accidental" manslaughter or second degree murder or whatever the heck the law calls it when you assault someone and they happen to die, but you didn't necessarily want them to.
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Anyway, ah! I understand what you meant now by "doing all the stuff" - and yeah, you're right, it doesn't make sense. Especially the idea that Matt hasn't killed anyone, because he totally has - unless he has some how convinced himself that Nobu lit himself on fire and burned to death all on his own without any help from Matt.
And when he threw that dude off the building, he had to PAUSE to check that he was a live - which to me, in that scene, read like he really didn't care. Likewise, when he's helping Stick, he knocks one of Nobu's men in the head (smack in the temple) causing him to fall into the water... now, I've never personally been hit in the temple by something going at a great speed, but my sister has, and there is absolutely no way she would have survived if someone had immediately thrown her into a river. She couldn't even stand. So, Matt must have this weird line in his head that is all about intent - like, people dying of the wounds he inflicts is fine, just so long as Matt didn't set out that night specifically to murder them.
And yeah, it would have been good for that to be explored a little more. But, I was willing to overlook it, because I liked the whole conflict with whether his end game should be murder or the law... mainly, I guess, because it was a conflict about which identity was the stronger of the two - the Devil or Matt. And I liked exploring that, even if I had to overlook the fact that obviously the Devil wins in terms of "accidental" manslaughter or second degree murder or whatever the heck the law calls it when you assault someone and they happen to die, but you didn't necessarily want them to.