Posted on 09/01/2019 9:11:38 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Arthur Fleck is a strange, middle-aged, white man, living with his mother, playing comedy clubs at night and routinely falling flat on his face. He endures humiliation at every turn...is unsuccessful, alienated, aggrieved, and most importantly, deeply disturbed.
In a short scene with his therapist, Fleck is agitated by the routine nature of the questions she asks. “You never listen do you? You just ask the same questions every week. ‘How’s your job? Are you having any negative thoughts?’ All I have...are negative thoughts.”
It’s a chilling moment as he stares down the therapist who tells him they won’t be meeting anymore going forward. She sees something in him she can’t fix, and they both know it.
The Joker himself is a disastrous punchline you can see coming from the beginning. He’s brooding, socially awkward, and starved for recognition, and the people around him can see it. So when considering Joker, it’s hard not to think of the mass shooters that have seized on the anxieties of so many Americans. When these individuals commit massacres and end up on the news, their profiles are never identical, but they certainly have common elements. And Arthur Fleck appears to mesh pretty well with that profile.
There’s so much about mass shooters that’s hard to classify. Some cite ideological or hate-fueled motivations for their crimes, such as shooters in Charleston or El Paso. Meanwhile, others are wild cards, such as those who carried out attacks in Dayton, Las Vegas, and Aurora.
The mention of Aurora is important in this context, as the Aurora shooter dyed his hair and even called himself “the Joker” when he opened fire at the premiere of a new Batman movie. The massacre embodied the infuriating unpredictability of these tragedies.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
This is exactly what we’re seeing time and time again on the most horrific days of national news, when we’re forced to grapple with yet another mass shooting. We keep calling these young murderous men “loners,” yet they’re clearly anything but. This is why Joker looks truly terrifying, because in real life, we’re surrounded by Arthur Flecks — and don’t know what to do about it.
Mental illness of a certain type can only be managed by secure hospitalization
After turning her back on her own home and family for the greater good, she learns that there is only one way to make Kul Tiras Great Again, and that is to finish her father's work.....
That they are funded by global groups who believe it is easier to control a disarmed population?
I saw the trailer ,why did they make this crap
People on non-political forums I visit are calling it a masterpiece.
In the “cause and effect” equation, they are the effect from an earlier cause.
"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life.Since the 60s and 70s, legislation and education in this cause have been used very effectively as weapons against US(!).If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."
~ Joseph Stalin?
For example, prior to the 1960s, kids without dads in the US were less common and more often because their fathers were KIAs, whether in battle or by accident or disease.
Nowadays, kids without dads are very common, you might even say they are our “new normal”, and mostly because fathers are intentionally AWOL or are unintentionally divorced MIAs.
Moms are usually MIA, too, because they are out working to replace MIA dad’s MIA income.
But hey, at least the sex is good, right?
El Paso Terrorism Suspect’s Alleged Manifesto Highlights Eco-Fascism’s Revival
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/el-paso-shooting-manifesto_n_5d470564e4b0aca3411f60e6
And that’s aside from Antifa violence from the chick who threw a Molotov cocktail into a DHS office or the guy who tried to shoot up an immigration facility.
in other words: a typical left wing Democrat.
These are stupid TV shows and movies?
Why would anyone take them seriously in the manner of this author?
Ludicrous.
Haven't seen anything on this movie, but find that I'm a lot happier when I ignore movies, now.
A lot of movies today seem designed to create despair and make people unhappy or angry.
I agree. The left wants hopelessness. A feel good movie out is ‘The Peanut Butter Falcon.’ Hobbs & Shaw is funny, not a depressing romp.
Joaquin Phoenix is one of the most talented actors I can think of. Stays way out of politics too.
Maybe because artistic mediums (book, theatre, movie, TV, games, etc) can and have influenced our culture in ways both good and bad?
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