Espen wanted to go the new Batman movie, so we went to the IMAX in the JK Iguatami shopping center. This place opened only last month. It is full of high-end shopping and places to each. Surrounding the shopping center is the new São Paulo. Most of the buildings here are only a few years old and they are constantly building more.
Traffic wasn’t bad, because it was on a Sunday. They block off part of the street for bikes. It is a nice touch in this big city that seems particularly unfriendly to bikes in the center, because of the unyielding traffic but also because of the streets with potholes and the enormous hills in the central area. In the new area, the streets are a bit wider and the topography more bike friendly.
The Batman movie was okay. They said it was 4D. I don’t know what that means. It was the regular IMAX experience as far as I could tell. There was a surprising social commentary in the film, IMO. It seemed to me to be a counter to the idea of class struggle. There were lines in there talking about how firms need to make profits before they can be generous with charity. The bad guy appealed to the resentment of the poor against the rich to help ruin the city and the mobs were like a big occupy Wall Street writ large and of course much nastier. In the end, the police were the good guys who took the city back from the mobs and the city was save, of course with the essentially assistance of the Batman. Naturally, it is only a movie based on a comic book, but I sure wouldn’t live in Gotham. Every few months a super crook shows up to try to destroy the place.