Joker
Saw Joker movie yesterday. It was so depressing. Thankfully I didn't go to this movie alone, unlike all other ones. Sandeep brought two of his friends.
It depicts the transformation of a simple man into a supervillain. When the movie begins, you will see a pathetic person, Arthur. He is a loser. He lives with his mother and takes care of her. He tried to stick to his job of being a clown. His aspiration is to become a stand-up comedian. He loses his job because he brought a gun into his job because he was bullied by some punk kids earlier. He got the gun for protection. But the gun fell from his pocket to middle of a hospital ward with kids.
On the way to home, he again gets bullied by three rich kids on the subway and he kills them. He just decides that he won't just stay down and accept what others push down his throat any more. His journey to the Clown Prince of Gotham starts there. People sympathise with the clown who killed three people. They called him the Clown Vigilante.
Gotham is, as usual, the worst place to be. Reminds me of France before the French Revolution. The rich could do anything and get away with it. Nobody cares about the common folks. He made a statement by killing those rich bullies. It causes media outrage because the killed were elite. Arthur goes on with his miserable life. But he feels empowered by the new passion he has found. Crime.
Then he finds out that his miserable life and his mental illness were not developed by itself. It was part of him. Years of abuse and negligence by his mother made him this way. He embraces the mental illness as part of his personality, not something to be cured. He becomes the real Joker by the time he kills his mother for the mistreatment he had to endure during his childhood.
By this time, Joaquin Phoenix has transformed into a menacing figure from the pathetic loser at the start of the movie. Now he kills people who have wronged him. But it was time for the revolution.
He was invited to a LIVE TV show to be ridiculed for his pathetic stand-up comedy act. But they were in for a treat. He just takes over the show and he declares that it was he who killed three people in the Subway. He asks the host if he had died on the street, will anybody care? Since the dead were rich, this gets so much media coverage. He calls out the host for his plans to ridicule Arthur and kills him on-screen, LIVE. He introduces himself as Joker.
Then the revolution starts. There are riots on the street. Thomas and Martha Wayne get killed as part of the riots even after they were one of the prominent figures in Gotham. Bruce Wayne is left on the alley where his parents are killed. An iconic scene. Batman begins.
Joker becomes the embodiment of resentment of common people for the elite. He stands in the middle, on a car, surrounded by hundreds of his followers. This answers my question of why Joker has so many followers (Dark Knight, Suicide Squad etc). The movie ends there. Joaquin's performance was so captivating, I just couldn't take my eyes off the screen. Finally, DC has done something right. Aquaman was really good. But it didn't have the dark signature of other DC movies.
Joaquin, that was an award-winning performance. Looking forward to the Oscar awards. I have a feeling that Robert Downey Jr will lose his oscar to the Joker, again.
It depicts the transformation of a simple man into a supervillain. When the movie begins, you will see a pathetic person, Arthur. He is a loser. He lives with his mother and takes care of her. He tried to stick to his job of being a clown. His aspiration is to become a stand-up comedian. He loses his job because he brought a gun into his job because he was bullied by some punk kids earlier. He got the gun for protection. But the gun fell from his pocket to middle of a hospital ward with kids.
On the way to home, he again gets bullied by three rich kids on the subway and he kills them. He just decides that he won't just stay down and accept what others push down his throat any more. His journey to the Clown Prince of Gotham starts there. People sympathise with the clown who killed three people. They called him the Clown Vigilante.
Gotham is, as usual, the worst place to be. Reminds me of France before the French Revolution. The rich could do anything and get away with it. Nobody cares about the common folks. He made a statement by killing those rich bullies. It causes media outrage because the killed were elite. Arthur goes on with his miserable life. But he feels empowered by the new passion he has found. Crime.
Then he finds out that his miserable life and his mental illness were not developed by itself. It was part of him. Years of abuse and negligence by his mother made him this way. He embraces the mental illness as part of his personality, not something to be cured. He becomes the real Joker by the time he kills his mother for the mistreatment he had to endure during his childhood.
By this time, Joaquin Phoenix has transformed into a menacing figure from the pathetic loser at the start of the movie. Now he kills people who have wronged him. But it was time for the revolution.
He was invited to a LIVE TV show to be ridiculed for his pathetic stand-up comedy act. But they were in for a treat. He just takes over the show and he declares that it was he who killed three people in the Subway. He asks the host if he had died on the street, will anybody care? Since the dead were rich, this gets so much media coverage. He calls out the host for his plans to ridicule Arthur and kills him on-screen, LIVE. He introduces himself as Joker.
Then the revolution starts. There are riots on the street. Thomas and Martha Wayne get killed as part of the riots even after they were one of the prominent figures in Gotham. Bruce Wayne is left on the alley where his parents are killed. An iconic scene. Batman begins.
Joker becomes the embodiment of resentment of common people for the elite. He stands in the middle, on a car, surrounded by hundreds of his followers. This answers my question of why Joker has so many followers (Dark Knight, Suicide Squad etc). The movie ends there. Joaquin's performance was so captivating, I just couldn't take my eyes off the screen. Finally, DC has done something right. Aquaman was really good. But it didn't have the dark signature of other DC movies.
Joaquin, that was an award-winning performance. Looking forward to the Oscar awards. I have a feeling that Robert Downey Jr will lose his oscar to the Joker, again.
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