two years ago, Batman Matt Reeves introduced a younger, more sinister version of Gotham’s Caped Crusader. On this occasion, the story also explored evil from an urban and realistic perspective, which brought new nuances to both the antihero and his enemies. In particular, Penguin (Colin Farrell) It showed that the city’s underworld of crime had a more brutal and direct dimension. And although it only appeared for a few minutes, The character surprises with his cruelty and extraordinary ambiguity.
Much of this character vision is in Penguin from GBO. Limited series, arranged in chronological order two weeks after what is being told. Batmanbegins in darkness. But not with the ease of recreating the destruction caused by violence The Riddler (Paul Dano). Instead, he makes the brilliant decision to assume that the destruction has left behind a new order that must find its place. Gotham is not an easy place and the absence of criminal leaders, shakes its underground lairs and demands a restructuring of power.
It is then that Lauren LeFranc connects the dots to the chaotic mess that both criminals and police will have to face. But the series eschews an origin story and has little of Matt Reeves’ comic brilliance and stylized darkness. Instead, Penguin — this is a perverted analogy with evil in search of a new face. All, and the pieces that destroyed The Riddler accidentally encounters several potential crime bosses in the city.
Penguin
Penguin turns Gotham into a place of wrangling between villains. But the script avoids clichés and takes the time to show how the city’s criminal ferocity is a nuance to the urban and street-level evil depicted in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Colin Farrell, among other things, turns a traditional DC character into an impressive and savage presence, the series’ greatest strength..
New order emerges from chaos
Gotham is in an emergency situation that is unlikely to be resolved immediately. Carmine Falcone (John Turturro) dead, the wave of violence spreads to the poorest. So Oz’s first move is to try to demonstrate that there is no one better equipped to exercise control than he. The script brilliantly establishes that Colin Farrell’s character is cruel and savage. And that, at its core, their plan of action is based on directly responding to a power vacuum rather than offering anything in return. Walk away from any the idea of a strategic plan, Oz is a huge, grumpy and cruel creature.
But the plot humanizes him enough, and that’s not all. If there’s anything interesting about Penguinis that its protagonist is full of flaws and few virtues. In the midst of all this there is his excessive greed and his instinct as a man who grew up on the streets and who knows – or thinks he knows – that he knows better than anyone what happens between poverty and instability. And this little nuance in the production is achieved thanks to Victor Aguilar (Rhenzi Feliz), a young man in the midst of urban misfortune, whom he takes under his protection.
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Nevertheless, Penguin It carefully avoids cliches, so it is not a mentor-mentee relationship. Above all, it is an examination of Gotham’s poverty, violence and moral decay. The series very skillfully describes this city in parts, full of hungry and unemployed people who see crime as a quicker and more effective option than the legal world. Something that makes the series a study territories outside of justice that are not dramatic or preachy.
War between villains
On the other side of the struggle for control of Gotham are the Falcons, who were violently beheaded after the death of their leader. Penguin asserts the idea that even evil has its gradations, and that in Gotham one version is worse than the other. This puts Sofia Falcone (Cristin Milioti), who can’t help but see Oz as part of her slavery, in the crosshairs, and who poses from the start: that no one in the family takes the former driver’s ambitions too seriously.
Part of the show’s effectiveness is the suggestion that Oz is despised precisely because he was once part of Falcone’s task force. And also because of his appearance, his poverty, and his apparent clumsiness. This wonderful little detail allows the show to take the time to flesh out Oz and make him fallible but also cruel. Nothing about his behavior is explicable and While the series doesn’t condone evil, it does delve into its origins.
Generally, Penguin — a brilliant plot that turns Gotham into the site of a new powerful man’s arrival. Inevitably tied to Batman in substance and tone, the series is also an elegant vision of the darkness of man. Which makes it perhaps one of the best shows of the year and in an interesting addition to the DC universe, which is just beginning to recover.
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