Today, with much anticipation, the streaming media of "Joker" is finally online. Fans of the Chinese dynasty who did not have the opportunity to see this movie in the movie theater finally have the opportunity to see this movie .
This year's movies on the theme of rich and poor and resistance are particularly brilliant.
"Parasite" won the Palme d’Or with the story between two families of rich and poor, and "Joker" proved to the public that DC is not only a superhero, but also can elicit enough realistic thinking to win the Golden Lion Award and the public Recognition of the Golden Lion Award.
As a clown series movie, it is difficult not to compare this "Joker" with other clowns in DC movies.
Compared with other DC movies that directly show the madness and darkness of the clown as a demon, the focus of this film is more humane. It uses a sad and cruel story to depict how a socially weak person turns into a vicious clown.
! ! The following contains a lot of spoilers, it is recommended to read it after watching the movie! !
Arthur is a mentally ill patient. Because of brain damage and neurological diseases, Arthur will make pathologically weird laughs uncontrollably. He needs to be treated with medication every day and he needs to receive psychological counseling.
However, the medicine did not cure his condition. The psychologist only conducted routine meetings and did not give Arthur any real care and guidance.
These made him feel his humbleness and the strange eyes of the people around him.
Arthur 's ideal is to become a comedian and bring joy to everyone. However, his humor is not understood by others, and he even uses his morbidity as a laughing point.
He regrets that people don't understand his humor. He wants to realize his dream and do better. He even thought of destroying himself and bringing people laughter. He wrote " My death makes more sense than my life " in his diary .
As a weak person in a society, Arthur did not get the respect he deserved, lacked substantial care and help, and struggled and tortured himself, so he stepped on the path of the devil step by step.
In addition to working to maintain food and clothing, Arthur 's daily life also had to take care of his elderly mother. Arthur cherishes his mother very much, and although he lives in poverty, he must give his mother the best care.
My mother has been thinking about working at Thomas Wayne's house when she was young, hoping to contact Thomas Wayne to fund their mother and son, and Arthur has been helping her mother to realize her wish.
However, after his mother was seriously ill and admitted to the hospital, Arthur discovered the lie behind it.
It turns out that Arthur 's mother is also a mentally ill patient. The so-called work and friendship at Thomas Wayne's house are also a lie that his mother imagined.
Arthur was often abused by his mother's boyfriend when he was young, and even Arthur was not his mother's biological son.
So one of the most important conviction supports in Arthur's life fell.
He resents his mother for cheating on his identity for many years, and the abuse of him in his childhood made him grow into a weak and bullied.
He was unwilling to accept this reality, and finally killed his mother in the hospital ward.
Because of Arthur's weird personality and mental illness, his colleagues don't like to get along with him, and often teased him at work.
The boss left him with his job as a professional clown out of sympathy. Arthur did not comfort him when he was bullied by street gangsters at work, but instead asked him to pay for the damage to the sign.
When Arthur ’s colleague found out, he gave him a gun for him to protect himself, but Arthur, who took the gun to the hospital to work, accidentally dropped the gun in front of the child and scared the child, and was accused by his colleague. Finally, the boss Still fired him.
Without work and income, Arthur 's survival pillar and source of food and clothing also fell.
He resented the injustice, contempt and ostracism of the people around him. He was unwilling to endure such insults, so when his former colleague came to visit him, he used scissors to kill again.
In addition to Arthur ’s personal life, Gotham City was in dire straits in the 1970s. The poor were struggling with food and clothing, the rich enjoyed the luxurious ivory towers, and the conflicts of social classes made people feel bored. Friendly and caring surroundings.
Arthur has always regarded Murray Franklin , a well-known talk show host, as an idol. He dreams of becoming a guest of Murray Franklin's talk show one day . The talk show host, whom Arthur regarded as an idol, invited him to his own show.
One day Arthur ’s comedy in a tavern was broadcast on the Murray Franklin talk show, but the purpose of broadcasting the story was to tease Arthur ’s freak comedy is not funny.
When Arthur was regarded as a joke to entertain the public by his idol, his self-esteem and persistence in his dreams were devastated.
In the end, he was invited to be a guest on the Murray Franklin talk show, achieving a highlight moment in his life, and also took the opportunity to shoot his idol headshot on the show in retaliation.
Some people choose to collapse when they are persecuted both externally and internally. However, Arthur chose the opposite and became the demon of destroying society and harming indiscriminately.
So the three Wall Street financial men on the subway, Arthur's neighbor, Murray Franklin, and the psychologist, all became sacrifices in the process of Arthur's transformation into a clown .
Arthur is not a born demon.
He will take care of his mother, will make children laugh on the bus, and will explain and apologize if he does not intend to offend others when he is sick.
He is eager for company and love like normal people, and sincerely hopes to be a comedian who brings laughter to everyone, and even let go of another dwarf colleague after killing his former colleague, saying that he is the only person who is good to him.
It is a pity that life did not give him fairness and ability, and the society did not give him care and respect, which eventually made him a demon-like clown.
The beginning of the film Arthur in overcast skies dejectedly on the staircase scene, the climax of the story, and Arthur finally turned clown, dancing on sunny stairs formed a very strong contrast, Arthur also from the weak become a symbol of the devil .
Finally, when the crowd began to resist, more and more people wore clown masks on the street to commit evil acts, and when Arthur was truly transformed into a clown demon and was regarded as the leader by the anti-social crowd, the whole of Gotham City also moved towards a tragic event. In madness .
In the movie, besides Arthur's iconic pathological laughter, which gives people a harsh and terrifying feeling, he also has a picture of a knowing smile.
When watching Murray Franklin programs, when accompanied by someone, when moved by the humor in Chaplin's movies, or when seeing the oppressed people start to resist and feel support, those smiles that are not harsh are rare for Arthur . A moment of pleasure.
The success of this film is inseparable from the hallowed performance of Jacques Phoenix . As the absolute protagonist, Phoenix 's acting has vividly portrayed Arthur 's tragic fate and the transformation from weakness to resistance.
Following Heath Ledger after, Phoenix achieved a clown once again impressed by the film interpretation.
However, the portrayal of the relationship between the clown and Bruce Wayne in the movie is still a bit tasteless, probably for the purpose of labeling the DC series and describing the relationship between the two people.
Including the fact that Wayne's parents were killed in the alley in the end, although it highlighted the outbreak of the resistance movement of the bottom people, the rationality seemed much weaker.
Movie Arthur 's story, perhaps because of artistic expression is full of drama, but leave the cinema back to reality, so get fair treatment, no respect for the people around them, struggle and dignity in food and clothing there are a lot of people, these people may One day he chose to become a clown because of the collapse of his life .
Whenever people and things that make extreme choices because of being overwhelmed by life appear on social news, some people choose to condemn, some people choose to regret, and some people choose to ignore. This reality and the Gotham city in the movie become More and more similar, the innuendo of the story in the movie also gives people a crippling look.
When the reality of the entire environment is condensed and combined with the characters and stories in the movie, the viewing experience brought by the strong dramatic effect is very depressing.
Compared to the violent scenes in Quentin's movies, the killing scenes in "Joker" give people a suffocating experience accompanied by sadness and powerlessness .
The current social themes all talk about the difficulty of life, and the coldness of society and the hardships of life have given everyone multiple tempers.
Even if superheroes bring people hope and expectation for the world, everyone has a limited amount of suffering and suffering.
When people no longer appreciate the positive energy brought by the inspirational chicken soup and let resentment and malice grow, each of us may become a clown because of the collapse of the last life-saving straw .
The negative anti-social theme of this film has also brought a lot of controversy to the current tense social atmosphere.
When it was released in North America, police patrols were even arranged at the entrance of the cinema, and spectators were prohibited from wearing clown masks in the cinema to prevent a recurrence of the shooting incident when the movie "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" was released ten years ago .
However, such social problems will not disappear because of rigid control.
Compared with how to limit such tragedies at the regulatory level, how to treat the weak surrounding people who have been beaten by life but are unable to resist, give them the respect they deserve, and prevent them from being hurt more, we need to face and think more.
Faced with such a repressive and difficult moment, we don't need to pretend to be happy with a smile on our faces all the time.
You don’t have to be dedicated to making this world better, but how to make this cold world less cruel?
Or how to reconcile with life and society in the face of suffering and oppression is a proposition that requires serious reflection on everyone.
The clown is here, take your time, everyone.
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