How to face up to this movie—society returns to society, darkness returns to darkness, and psychology returns to psychology

Dorthy 2022-04-20 09:01:07

This movie is not esoteric, and the plot is also very simple. I think it is deep because most people rarely explore themselves. But the good thing about this movie is that the Joker's psychological process is the extremeization of the psychological process that most people have had. Coupled with its labelling, it is easy to cause empathy.

1. The clown already has mental problems. His laughter cannot be felt by the public, and the joker cannot feel the laughter of the public. Such people still try to integrate into society and climb up by pleasing the public. To a large extent, the mother and the future weave fantasy.

2. Every exposure of pain and truth is a process of crushing the hope of the right future. Until the truth of the mother is revealed, the clown finds that even the hope of integrating into the society itself is an illusion.

3. So in the reality without hope and fantasy, he is nothing, the laughing point is very strange, many expectations cannot be satisfied, killing can only be happy.

4. The birth of the clown has his own problems and social problems, but his own spiritual problems actually exist, because the clown is actually the noumenon, the mother's experience of abusing childhood, and Arthur is based on fantasy personality.

5. This riot is actually a riot calling for socialism and an anti-capitalist riot. This is how the welfare system in the United States and Europe came into being. "The capitalist people are living in hot water and need us to save them." You think it's a joke. In fact, after the baptism of socialist ideology, the fog described by Dickens can become the London of today. After economic development, seek high welfare And the upstream industry chain is the normal operation of all countries.

6. The clown has nothing to do with this riot at all. He does not represent the oppressed people under a certain system. He represents everyone who exists in the dark. Their madness is shaped by their experiences, their experiences Shaped by the darkness of society, in the end, is his own dark side really optional? You have to affirm the existence of darkness, in order to yearn for the light, you cannot escape the darkness, and the impotent rage, the darkness will always exist, even if it is not determined by the darkness itself.

7. The riot started with him as a symbol. In fact, the public chose a labelled behavior and character to express their dissatisfaction. It doesn't matter what the label itself thinks. The clown is also a truth to the public.

8. Finally, come back to the point that personality is based on fantasy. This actually applies to all of us. Think about where your hobbies and your ideals come from, and how much they are influenced by others. If you go deeper, you will even find that the "self" itself is established under the feedback of the "other". But so what, just like your body is part of a physical system, your ego is yours, born naturally in the entire cultural atmosphere and symbolic world. You find that the "self" is established under the influence of the outside world, not naturally existing alone. Are you going to kill? Or should you continue to be influenced by the outside world by influencing the outside world, in the process reaching emptiness, the superego, or just going with the flow in your relationship with the world?

9. At the end of Dostoevsky's words, people claim that society has become free, and freedom has been expanded to satisfy desires, so everyone pursues freedom and wealth, and those who have the ability and the ability do so, and those who can't do it. Even killing and committing suicide for this is what they call freedom.

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Joker quotes

  • Arthur Fleck: [Arthur goes to Wayne Manor where he sees young Bruce and does a clown rooting form before talking to him through the gates] Hi. What's your name?

    Bruce Wayne: I'm Bruce.

    Arthur Fleck: Bruce. I'm Arthur.

    [He sticks his hands through the gate, puts his fingers on Bruce's face lifting the corners of his mouth as if to make him smile]

    Alfred Pennyworth: Bruce! Bruce! Get away from that man.

    Arthur Fleck: It's okay. I'm a good guy.

    Alfred Pennyworth: How do you do? Who are you?

    Arthur Fleck: I'm here to see Mr. Wayne.

    Alfred Pennyworth: Well, you shouldn't be speaking to his son

    [Giving back the fake flowers Arthur gave Bruce]

    Alfred Pennyworth: Why did you give him these flowers?

    Arthur Fleck: No, they're not real. It's magic. I was just trying to make Bruce smile.

    Alfred Pennyworth: Well, it's not funny, is it? Do I need to call the police?

    Arthur Fleck: No, please. My mother's name is Penny. Penny Fleck. She used to work here years ago. Can you please tell Mr. Wayne I need to see him?

    Alfred Pennyworth: You are her son?

    Arthur Fleck: Yeah. Did you know her? I know about the two of them. She told me everything.

    Alfred Pennyworth: There's nothing to know. There is no "them." Your mother was delusional. She was a sick woman.

    Arthur Fleck: Don't say that.

    Alfred Pennyworth: Just go. Before you make a fool of yourself.

    Arthur Fleck: Thomas Wayne is my father.

    Alfred Pennyworth: [Alfred starts laughing, causing Arthur in anger to put his hand through the gates around Alfred's neck and starts to choke him] Let go of me! Let go! Let go of me!

    [Arthur looks at Bruce watching with fear, he turns and runs off]

  • Detective Garrity: Mr. Fleck. Sorry to bother you. I'm Detective Garrity this is my partner, Detective Burke. We have a few questions for you, but you weren't home. So we spoke with your mother.

    Arthur Fleck: Oh. What did you say to her? Did you do this?

    Detective Garrity: What? No.

    Detective Burke: No, no, no. We just asked her some questions. She got hysterical. Hyperventilating, collapsed...

    Arthur Fleck: Yeah, but the doctor said she had a stroke.

    Detective Garrity: We're sorry to hear about that. But like I said, I still have some questions for you. They're about to subway killings that happened last week. You've heard about them right?

    Arthur Fleck: Yeah. It's horrible.

    Detective Garrity: Right.

    Detective Garrity: So we spoke with your boss, over at Ha-Ha's. He said you were fired for bringing a gun into the children's hospital. Is that true, Mr. Fleck?

    Arthur Fleck: It's a prop. It's part of my act. I'm a party clown.

    Detective Burke: All right, so why were you fired?

    Arthur Fleck: They said I wasn't funny enough. Can you imagine that? Now if you don't mind, I have to go take care of my mother.

    Detective Burke: Your boss also gave us one of your cards. This condition of yours, The laughing, is it real, or some sort of clown thing?

    Arthur Fleck: A clown thing?

    Detective Garrity: Yeah. I mean, part of your act?

    Arthur Fleck: What do you think?

    [Arthur turns and starts walking towards the hospital doors, but walks into the glass door]

    Detective Garrity: It's exit only.