After watching it, I was too impressed with the before and after contrast created in the movie
1. To be a clown/be a clown
In the first part of his life, Arthur played the clown for others to make fun of; in the second half of his life, Arthur became the clown and made fun of others. When dancing in the city, it should be the first time Arthur laughed heartily.
2. Tragedy/Comedy
In the first half of his life, Arthur lived a complete tragedy, and this tragedy was the joke of others, and he added jokes from time to time, including Arthur himself, who was forced to laugh at this tragedy; Half of Arthur started doing his own comedy, but no one could laugh except Arthur himself. As Arthur asked, who dictated what is funny? And who justify your laughter?
3. Becoming a man/becoming a beast
In the first half, Arthur is strong and forbearing, and everywhere reflects the "warmth" of being a person under the social moral system: he takes care of his mother, makes his children happy twice, strives to complete his work and has small ideals, apologizes again and again, speaks Soft and polite. No matter how deep into the black hole, he thinks he wants to bring laughter. He strives to be a "human", even if no beast in the zoo has ever treated him like a human being. But, he said, "I don't feel like I exist." That's right, he just lives as a human being.
In the second half, Arthur begins to tear apart all social moral constructions. He kills people, and feels good about it. The audience and the ordinary citizens in the movie will start to panic: "Yes, you are the bottom, you are too miserable, should you kill?" Arthur began to not look like a person. . You say he's like a cold-blooded animal. He killed Fatty, but opened the door for Shorty. He knew that Shorty was just someone who had been bullied in the same society as he was and still kept his warmth on him. Arthur is not like a person, but has become a person, a person who no longer bows to evil and bravely stands on the side of the weak and the good. To really become a cold-blooded beast, Arthur only needs to join the group of his people to fight others, and join the fat colleagues to ridicule other colleagues. After all, there are always people weaker than him for him to vent.
4. Cool/Warm
All these contrasts were conveyed by the director in a very good way, the most obvious being the continuous dark and cold tones contrasting with the dazzling light at the end of the film.
5. False/Real
There are many small details of contrast between reality and reality in the movie, such as Arthur's imagination, such as the hallucinations of Arthur's mother. But the bigger contrast between reality and reality lies in how realistic the film is and how artistically processed it is. Gotham City is like the sum of the contradictions above, and there is not a single person in it who is not a jerk. There are many ways to kill people, and no one's hands are clean. One second I thought it was too surreal, the next I thought this drama was terrifyingly realistic.
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