Do you know what time it is? Exactly! Time for me to overanalyze Batman Forever.
I was watching that scene of Edward and Harvey together for the thousandth time.
They discover Batman's identity and I started to think, why didn't Harvey have a bigger reaction when he found out that Bruce was Batman? Especially considering that in the movie it is slightly implied that they were friends before the acid accident
It was just weird how he almost didn't care about the fact that his former best friend was literally the man he's been trying to kill and who failed to save him.
(I love how it's in a "I don't care" mode in this scene that's why I put the image, and I also don't want so much text together)
My first reaction was like "Oh well he's more distracted paying attention to Edward and Batman doesn't really matters" (which is kinda true btw).
But after thinking about it for a while, I came to the answer: Harvey was in a dissociative state because of the news.
He has Dissociative identity disorder (formerly misknown as multiple identity disorder) and DID is literally a dissociative disorder (as its name says) and many people who have it can become depersonalized and derelative (I took this information from the profile Sistema el Imperio, specifically this video )
And it happens that I suffer from depersonalization and derelization and literally as a coincidence I had a moment of dissociation due to something that happened to me and I reacted in the same way as Harvey in the movie, and by reacting I mean not doing it and focusing my attention on something else I was like "Oh I understand what's going on...and what now?" because I was really doing it just...There was no reaction no matter how much I wanted to, I even felt guilty because there was no reaction despite understanding what was happening and how other things caught my attention more.
That happened to Harvey, he was like "Oh yeah I fully understand that my former friend in all sight is my biggest enemy now...but petting Edward's head as a reward is more important."
And in my case I got a reaction to what happened about 3 days later and it was relatively short, the same could have happened with Harvey when his brain process everything had a reaction but this obviously didn't happen on camera because no one from the production came up with it 🤷🏻♀️
And I think that's it, I just want to say that I love this detail even though it's more of a headcanon than anything can really be taken as canon, I also love this a lot because I kin Harvey and this made me identify more with him.
