"The Dark Knight" is about the road to conquering Gotham after the clown has become a clown;
"Joker" is the story before the clown became a clown, let us witness step by step how Arthur gradually changed from an ordinary person to a clown.
Arthur and the Joker seem to be two different personalities, they co-exist in the same body.
In the past, Arthur's personality occupied the dominant position, until a series of things let the clown personality break free and become the master of the body.
In the first half of the movie, Arthur goes up the stairs and in the second half, Arthur goes down the stairs in stark contrast.
The former is depressed, decadent, and heavy, while the latter is confident, high-spirited, and crazy.
The former is Arthur's trough in his life, the latter is the clown's peak in life.
At the beginning of the movie, he shed tears while putting on make-up, and grabbed his mouth to force a smile.
At the end of the movie, he drew himself a smiling face with blood, echoing the beginning, at which time he has become a clown completely.
Since then, there is no Arthur, only the clown is left.
There are obvious symbols in various posters and promotional materials of "Joker".
The layout of the steps of a movie theater in India also has the same meaning.
From the bottom to the top is Arthur, from the top to the bottom is the clown.
When I walked into the movie theater, I saw Arthur, who had become a clown after watching the movie.
The changes before and after the leading actor in the movie are also very obvious.
He was very decadent in the first half of the movie, and he walked with a heavy pace, reflecting his great pressure.
When he shot and killed for the first time, he became very relaxed and danced.
As he went to the back, his pace was lighter, he changed the heavy heaviness before, and even danced many times. Dancing on the stairs, dancing in the bathroom, dancing on the car...
The transition of the actor from Arthur to the Joker is a clue throughout the film, and everything that happened to Arthur and every move he made made him one step closer to becoming a Joker.
This change is the result of both internal and external factors.
Let's talk about internal factors first.
Like the previous films of the clown, one of the most impressive elements of this film is the laughter of the clown, not that kind of happy laughter, but a laugh that sounds a little scary.
The explanation for this kind of laughter in this film is that Arthur suffers from a disease, which makes him laugh often.
In fact, Arthur's laughter does not appear randomly, on the contrary, every episode of his laughter is regular.
If you connect him with every episode of laughter, you will find that they appear untimely every time, every time when they shouldn't happen.
Every time Arthur wanted to be a normal person, his laughter would break out, causing himself to enter a more embarrassing and more serious situation.
That's right, every time you laugh, it's the clown personality laughing.
On the surface, this is a kind of illness, but it is actually the clown personality that made Arthur lose control of his body by laughing, making him unable to be a normal person.
On the bus, Arthur wanted to make the child laugh, but the laughter attacked, which caused him to be regarded as a neurosis by the child's mother.
On the subway, Arthur didn't want to be nosy, but he suffered from laughter, which attracted the attention of three "industry elites", and later Arthur shot and killed.
When performing a talk show, his laughing sickness relapsed, and he became Murray's laughing stock, making him appear on Murray's show by accident, and then killed Murray at the scene of the show.
When meeting Thomas Wayne, Arthur thought he was about to stage a tender show of father and son recognition, but his laughter relapsed and Thomas Wayne punched him on the spot.
Another example is when Arthur’s colleague Randall laughed at the dwarf colleague Gary, when Arthur’s colleague Randall made insulting jokes, or when Arthur was taken into a police car and saw the citizens beat, smash, rob and burn...
Whenever he shouldn't laugh, his laughter will happen.
Whenever Arthur wanted to behave more normally, the clown personality would come out to stop him, not let him be a normal person, and let him be gradually assimilated by the clown personality.
The clown personality is responsible for crushing him spiritually, while the suffering in life is the severe damage from the outside, and the two internally and externally combined to kill Arthur's personality.
Arthur didn't have a friend around him, and everyone didn't wait to see him. They were hurting him intentionally or unintentionally. These injuries combined into a powerful force that eventually destroyed Arthur.
The child’s mother misunderstood him, the psychologist didn’t care about him, the boss exploited him, his colleagues betrayed him, the police thought he was pretending to be sick, and Ah Fu was full of hostility towards him.
The rich watch a film that satirizes the rich, "Modern Times", but they really see it as a comedy, and they don't know that this movie criticizes them.
The core of "Modern Times" is tragedy, but in the eyes of the rich it is a comedy.
Just as Arthur’s failure in acting was a bitter thing, Murray took it as a funny thing to share with everyone.
Thomas Wayne pretends to be noble and upright on the surface. He keeps saying that both the past and current employees are his family members, but he doesn't care about the life and death of Arthur's mother and son.
He clearly stated that he did not know the three dead, but he vowed to say that the three of them were kind-hearted and well-educated, and without investigation, he speculated that the reason for the murderer's killing was that he was jealous of people who were luckier than them, and he was so scared that he didn't dare to show it. true colors.
In fact, it was the three "industry elites" who bullied Arthur first, and Arthur resisted later, and Arthur put on makeup because he was performing at the Children's Hospital that day.
The irony is that ordinary people like Arthur go to death on the streets every day, and people don't care.
When the three "industry elites" died, the media reportedly, Thomas Wayne also personally stood up to criticize the murderer.
In reality, this is not the case. You always see the news saying that top students, rich men, celebrities, and scientists are dead, but you never see news reporting the death of ordinary people.
Don't ordinary people die? Of course not, but no one cares about the life and death of ordinary people.
These are not the deadliest.
The most deadly thing is that he regards Murray as an idol. He dreams of becoming a talk show host like Murray, but one day he becomes the object of Murray's ridicule.
After Mori laughed at him, he would invite him to the show, just to laugh at him again.
And his mother, Petunia, who thought she was the only person in the world who loved him, only to realize that she was the one who hurt him the most.
His life is actually just a lie.
He was domestically abused by Petunia's boyfriend since he was a child, and Petunia also acquiesced to this.
This is not over yet, Petunia always makes him laugh, saying that his mission is to bring joy to the world.
He had never been happy for a minute, but his mother gave him a nickname "Happy", which is ironic.
She watched her son being domestically abused, and she was ashamed to say that she had never seen him cry, he had always been a happy child.
Why does Arthur have two personalities? Why is his other personality a clown? The answer is obvious.
It is precisely because he was often domestically abused when he was a child, his mother did not stop her boyfriend, but instead forced him as a victim to keep smiling, which allowed him to plant a seed of evil since he was a child.
This is why his laughter sounds unhappy at all, but rather terrifying.
You are forced to laugh if you are domestically abused. Can this laugh be happy?
Of course, whether Penny’s medical record is true remains to be confirmed.
What is the relationship between Penny and Thomas Wayne, and whether Arthur is the illegitimate son of Thomas Wayne, all seem confusing.
If the medical records are true, it means that Petunia does suffer from delusions. She fantasizes that she is Thomas Wayne's lover, and fantasizes that she and Thomas Wayne gave birth to Arthur.
The mother always fantasizes, and the son always fantasizes, which seems very logical.
But a person of Thomas Wayne's status can completely tamper with Penny's medical record.
And when Arthur saw Ah Fu, Ah Fu knew about it and said without hesitation: Your mother has delusions, and she has nothing to do with Thomas Wayne.
Thirty years ago, he was able to answer so smoothly without thinking at all, and it felt like he had practiced beforehand.
The more direct evidence is that Arthur has a picture of Petunia with the words on the back:
Love your smile. ——TW (Thomas Wayne)
Of course, you can understand that this is written by Petunia herself, to paralyze herself and deceive herself.
But I prefer this to be written by Thomas Wayne. Since the director took this shot and gave it close-ups, it shows that the shot is meaningful.
It would be terrible in this case.
Thomas Wayne abandoned their mother and son, not only did not help them, but also tampered with Petunia's medical records, thereby indirectly driving Arthur crazy and turned into a devil with all evil.
The other son of Thomas Wayne has become the incarnation of justice and the guardian of Gotham.
His attitude towards his two sons was completely different, which eventually led to them becoming two completely different people, or even two extremes.
So, Arthur is not the source of confusion, Thomas Wayne is.
Maybe Thomas Wayne and Penny were lovers, but he is the richest man in Gotham and he happens to be running for mayor. He chose not to recognize this relationship for his own reputation, and he also asked Penny to sign a non-disclosure agreement and tamper with it. Petunia’s medical records, and later Petunia wrote to him every day for help, and he turned a blind eye.
It is also possible that all of this does not exist, only exists in Petunia's fantasy.
Which one is the truth, the film does not give an answer.
This is also true of Arthur's experience. Different people have different opinions on which ones actually happened and which ones he fantasized about.
First of all, at the beginning of the movie, Arthur watched Murray's talk show and became a live audience watching him. He also interacted with Murray. This segment should be Arthur's fantasy.
It is precisely because he lives with his mother that he imagines that Murray once lived with his mother.
It is precisely because he dreams of becoming a talk show host that he imagines that Morey will support him.
Arthur was absent-minded while watching TV, his eyes wandered, and then gradually smiled, which also hinted that he was not watching TV anymore, but entered into a fantasy.
In his fantasy, Murray is his father-like existence, and it is his motivation to become a talk show host. Later, when he becomes the object of Murray's ridicule, he will have a strong psychological gap and mental breakdown. The love for Murray turned into hate, and he was only willing to give up after killing him.
The second is the relationship between Arthur and Sophie, which should also be Arthur's fantasy.
When Arthur and Sophie took the elevator together, the elevator malfunctioned, and then it was all his fantasy.
The reason is that after the elevator malfunctioned, Sophie made a suicide gesture to Arthur.
Halfway through the movie, Arthur walked into Sophie's house, but Sophie acted unfamiliar with him. She looked like a stranger broke into his house privately.
Then Arthur made a gesture of shooting suicide to Sophie, which made Sophie very scared, which showed that she didn't make this gesture at all when they were doing the elevator together.
Including Sophie making gestures, as well as kissing Sophie, having dinner with Sophie, Sophie watching him perform a talk show, Sophie visiting his mother with him, Sophie saying that he thinks the clown is a hero, etc. Everything is Arthur Fantasy.
And when Arthur performed a talk show, he suffered from laughter. As a result, his performance was a complete success, which is also his fantasy.
The real situation should be that after his laughter attack, people blasted him off the stage, and his performance ended in failure.
Whether it's Murray supporting him, or falling in love with Sophie and performing smoothly, it is all beautiful things.
Does this mean that all the good things Arthur encountered were fantasised, and all the bad things encountered were real?
So we can deduce that it is true that he killed Murray, that he was taken away by the police, but that it was a fake that people knocked over the police car to rescue him, and that it was fake that people regarded him as a leader.
No one rescued him, and no one cheered at him. After killing him, he was immediately put in a lunatic asylum.
Arthur had no scars on his face in the lunatic asylum, which can be confirmed.
You can even understand that his being imprisoned in a lunatic asylum is not the end of the movie, but the beginning of the movie.
The doctor asked him what he was laughing at, and he said he thought of a joke, and this joke is the story told in this movie.
The reason is that when Arthur received psychotherapy for the first time in the movie, the clock on the wall was 11:11.
As soon as the picture turned, Arthur appeared in the lunatic asylum, and the clock on the wall was also 11:11.
If only one of these two scenarios is true, then it must be the latter.
This means that there has never been a psychiatrist, and Arthur has never received psychological treatment. He has been in a lunatic asylum from beginning to end.
He did not perform a talk show, was not laughed at by Morey, did not kill Morey, and was not regarded as a hero by people...
He looked at the lunatic asylum he was in, looked at the doctor in front of him, looked at the 11:11 on the wall, and then thought of such a story.
In this story, he went from being a failure at the bottom of the society to the leader of a group of bad guys and the king of Gotham crime.
Thinking about it, he laughed, because he found that all this was a joke, and he was just a joke.
He used to think his life was a tragedy, but in fact it was a comedy.
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