The origins of most superhero movies are from how an ordinary person was touched by the hand of fate, and how to turn into a hero with a dignified cloak.
However, there are few villains who explain from beginning to end. Most of the villains are "completed", and they pop up suddenly. Without reason, they are already abnormal. At most, they use confession to flashback how they got there. Such a field.
So Joker’s movie, which features the most famous villain in the history of the British Super League, is really eye-catching, and I finally know why.
After watching this movie, I was already holding my breath before the lights in the theater turned on, and I was afraid that someone would shoot suddenly (not that this kind of news had never happened). When I walked out of the theater, I felt that ordinary streets are perilous, like a delusion of persecution. disease. Because the rendering power of this movie is really too high, even good citizens feel that the three views are briefly reversed after watching the movie, and their brains are dizzy, and they almost have to have a public relationship with the owner.
Although this movie is produced by DC, it is not classified as a superhero, because there are neither superheroes nor superpowers in it. The protagonist is an ordinary low-level blue-collar, ugly, poor, and epileptic because of life. Too many bad days piled up in China, and finally it was like a dyke bursting, shooting the first person, the second person, the third person... and because his image in the newspapers happened to be that his job was fired and brought back. With the clown makeup, the iconic face of the clown was immediately regarded as a spokesperson by the angry crowd, and many imitators became a phenomenon.
The performance of Jacques Phoenix is really amazing. If Rooney Mara watched the movie, I would run away and break up immediately after watching the movie.
His appearance is extremely thin, humpbacked, his feet are of varying lengths, and his face is covered with furrows. Every wrinkle seems to be formed after being slapped 88 times by the society. The story will automatically flow out as soon as he debuts.
Because one of the character settings is that the clown laughs uncontrollably, which often happens at important moments when he wants to be recognized by the society, and because inexplicable laughter will instantly destroy his desire to be recognized, he again I want to suppress it, but I have a painful collapse. I need a combination of laughter and cry. It is simply a difficult action. A slight mistake will cause facial nerve cramps or greasy tune. But every time he laughed and cried, he acted very convincingly, which made the audience worried for him. He felt embarrassed and embarrassed because of his situation. He even hoped that he could stop laughing in an instant when a medical miracle appeared.
The story of the movie is very crazy and distorted. As long as you change an actor, you probably won't be able to make the story complete. This poor man at the bottom was bullied and beaten by teenagers, dismissed by the leader, and hacked with contempt by all kinds of people in the society. His body and his face were blurred, as if he was going to crawl to death like this forever, but suddenly he exploded. , Became a murderer, and then became an icon. At the end of the movie, he was knocked into a coma in a car accident. His followers rescued him from the car, put him on the hood of the car, and began to cheer and worship. This is a very, very weird sight, but with his previous performance foreshadowing, everything becomes reasonable.
The film’s story design, graphics, and music are undoubtedly good, but the actors’ performance is too eye-catching. The whole movie is a hearty dance by Jacques, which is so persuasive that he walked on the street the night after watching the movie. Those homeless people who pass by will start to imagine if there is such a person among them, living in embarrassment, being bullied, hopeless, suddenly launching unstoppable criminal behavior, and then being caught by more similar people. Resonance, and then more conflicts.
The film has too much to express. If Nolan’s Batman prequel trilogy talks about how many unknown blood and tears are needed to become a superhero, then this clown probably means to be a super hero. How many bad factors the villain needs to contribute together. The depiction of Gotham in it is very concrete and vivid, and it is a lot of twists and turns. As long as you see the bleak streets, dirty subways, and cool colors, you can understand the source of all conflicts and where the angry people come from.
What's more surprising is that this movie unexpectedly completed the Batman story to some extent. We saw Bruce Wayne and his father Thomas Wayne in this film. This is the first time a superhero has appeared as a supporting role on the background board. They are no longer the primary narrative subject, and the audience no longer sees the world in the movie through their perspective, but just the inhuman rich man in the eyes of the protagonist. Watching Chaplin's "Modern Times" in a luxurious movie theater with his pampered young master, and laughing with the capitalists, who was exploited as a weird man by the capitalists on the black and white screen.
At the end, the killing of Batman’s parents was also placed in a larger environment. It was no longer inexplicably robbed by an unnamed desperado, but in the Joker shooting and killing the TV comedy host and causing a sensation in the city. After that, a man followed suit and shot at the rich man in the city to show his anger. This stroke shocked me very much. It redefines the story of Batman and the Joker. The Joker is no longer a villain who popped out to hate Batman, the beams they formed, the fetters of fate, turned out to have started even earlier. The death of Batman's parents was not an accident, but became the result of the ultimate explosion after the disadvantaged group's anger accumulated to the sky.
Finally, there are some irrelevant thoughts.
After watching ten seasons of "Criminal Minds" in college, many of the serial killers in it came from similar family situations. Parents, domestic violence + drug abuse + alcoholism, I feel that they have become a template. In one episode, Reid and Hotch went to the prison to interview a serial killer. Somehow they talked about his native family. Then the killer suddenly asked, in a family like me, what is the probability that I will be a good person. Reid answered honestly. According to science, there is almost no chance for children from such families to become good people. This is the general idea. I don't remember the specifics and there may be discrepancies. Later, the criminal seemed to be excited to beat them. But I was amazed at the time that at the data level, it turns out that human nature is so vulnerable, and the configuration of the original family can determine the life of the next generation to such a large extent.
I think this is because of the character setting in Joker. Arthur was originally just an ordinary little boy. Because of being abandoned, he was adopted by a mentally ill mother. He has suffered brain damage, so the configuration for a miserable life is complete. After he knew the truth, he went to the hospital and strangled his mother with his own hands. He went to the TV station and shot and killed the talk show host who had always been regarded as his father's role. He completed the killing of the father and the mother, but in any case he could not be separated from his past. Up. These experiences stuck in his blood. He is going to create more tragedies for the next generation aggressively. The roles of the victim and the perpetrator have been handed over.
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