When You Dont Know What I Am Then I Am Something. But When You Know What I Am Then I Am Nothing

What practice yous get when you cross a mentally-sick loner with a society that abandons him and treats him similar trash!? I'll tell you what you get: Yous get what y'all fucking deserve!

Joker is a 2022 American psychological thriller film. The film, based on DC Comics characters, stars Joaquin Phoenix every bit the Joker. An origin story set in 1981, the pic follows Arthur Fleck, a failed stand up-up comedian who turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City.

Directed past Todd Phillips. Written by Todd Phillips and Scott Silverish

Arthur Bit / Joker [edit]

The worst part of having a mental illness is people look yous to deport equally if you don't.

• [written in notebook] The worst office of having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don't.
• [written in notebook] I only hope my death makes more than cents than my life.
• Yous know what's funny? Yous know what really makes me laugh? I used to retrieve that my life was a tragedy...but at present I realize...information technology'southward a fucking comedy.
• Y'all don't listen, practice you lot? You just ask the aforementioned questions every week. "How's your job?" "Are you having negative thoughts?" All I take are negative thoughts.
• [to Penny Fleck] You know, y'all used to tell me...that my laugh was a condition. That at that place was something wrong with me. There isn't. That's the real me.
• Is it only me.....or is it getting crazier out there?
• When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Joker?
• [to Thomas Wayne] I know it seems strange, I don't mean to make you uncomfortable, I don't know why anybody is so rude, I don't know why yous are; I don't want anything from you. Mayhap a little warmth, maybe a hug, "Dad", mayhap just a fleck of common fucking decency!
• I haven't been happy one minute of my entire fucking life.
• I had a bad day.
• For my whole life, I didn't know if I even really existed. But I practise. People are starting to notice.

Dialogue [edit]

Come on, Mur-ray. Exercise I look similar the kind of clown that could kickoff a movement? I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It'southward enough to make anyone crazy.

The film provides non only the socio-psychological genesis of Joker, it likewise implies a condemnation of the society in which a protestation can merely assume the grade of a new tribe led by Joker. ~ Slavoj Zizek^[one]

Joker: Knock knock.

Murray Franklin: Who'southward there? [audience laughs]

Joker: Information technology's the law, ma'am. Your son'southward been hit by a drunk driver. He'southward dead! [laughs; audience gasps; musician in band goes "wah-wah" on trombone]

Dr. Emerge: [unsettled] Oh no, no, no! No, you cannot joke about that!

Murray Franklin: [tense and somewhat spooked] Yeah, that'due south non funny, Arthur. That'southward not the kind of humor we do on this evidence.

Joker: Okay... Yeah, y'all know what? I-I'm sor-I'grand sad. I know. It's just, you know, information technology's been a rough few weeks, Murray. Ever since I...killed those three Wall Street guys.

[the crowd murmurs nervously and some of them even gasp]

Murray Franklin: [confused, but trying to stay in character] Okay, I'1000 waiting for the punchline.

Joker: At that place is no punchline. It's not a joke.

[the crowd gasps]

Murray Franklin: [a scrap concerned and edgy] You lot're serious, aren't you? You're telling u.s.a. you killed those three young men on the subway?

Joker: Mm-hmm.

Murray Franklin: And...why should we believe you?

Joker: I've got cypher left to lose. Nothing can injure me anymore. My life is nothing but a comedy.

Murray Franklin: So allow me get this straight. You think that killing those guys is funny?

Joker: I practice. And I'm tired of pretending information technology'south not. Comedy is subjective, Murray. Isn't that what they say? All of yous, the organization that knows so much, you decide what's right or wrong. The same way that you decide what'due south [points to himself] funny or [gestures over to Murray] not!

Audition Member: [aroused and bellyaching] Get him off!

Murray Franklin: [now genuinely disturbed] O-Okay, I-I think...I-I might empathize information technology. You...did this to starting time a movement? To become a-a symbol?

Joker: C'mon, Mur-ray. Do I wait like the kind of clown that could starting time a motion? I killed those guys because they were atrocious. Everybody is awful these days. Information technology's enough to make anyone crazy.

Murray Franklin: Alright. So that'southward it and so, you're crazy. That's your defense for killing 3 young men?

Joker: [smugly] No. They couldn't bear a tune to salve their lives. [the crowd boos and jeers; Joker/Arthur grows frustrated] Ugh, why is everybody so upset about these guys? If it was me dying on the sidewalk, yous'd walk right over me! I pass yous every day, and yous don't notice me! But these guys... What, considering Thomas Wayne went and cried about them on TV?!

Murray Franklin: You have a problem with Thomas Wayne?

Joker: Yes, I do! Have you seen what it's like out in that location, Mur-ray? Do you always actually go out the studio? Everybody merely yells, shouts, and screams at each other. Nobody's civil anymore! Nobody thinks what it's like to exist the other guy. Y'all think men similar Thomas Wayne ever think what it'due south similar to be someone similar me?! To be somebody but themselves?! They don't. They retrieve we'll all merely sit there and take information technology like proficient little boys! That we won't werewolf and get wild!!

Murray Franklin: [trying to stay composed] You finished? I hateful, there'southward and then much cocky-pity, Arthur. Y'all sound like you're making excuses for killing those young men. Not everybody, and I'll tell you this, not everyone is awful.

Joker: [coldly and quietly] You're awful, Murray.

Murray Franklin: Me? I'thou awful? Oh, yeah, how am I awful?

Joker: Playing my video. Inviting me on the bear witness. You but wanted to brand fun of me. You're just like the residual of 'em.

Murray Franklin: [offended] You don't know the commencement thing almost me, pal. Await what happened because of what y'all did. What it led to. There are riots out at that place. Two policemen are in critical condition...[Joker/Arthur laughs]...and you're laughing. You're laughing. Someone was killed today because of what you did.

Joker: [giggling] I know. How about another joke, Mur-ray?

Murray Franklin: No, I think nosotros've had enough of your jokes.

Joker: What do you get...

Murray Franklin: I don't think and so.

Joker: ...When you cross...

Murray Franklin: I recollect nosotros're done with your jokes, that's it.

Joker: ...A mentally-sick loner with a SOCIETY that ABANDONS HIM AND TREATS HIM LIKE TRASH?!

Murray Franklin: Telephone call the police, Cistron!

Joker: I'll tell yous what you get!

Murray Franklin: Phone call the police!

Joker: Yous GET WHAT YOU FUCKING DESERVE!!! [pulls out his gun and shoots Murray in the head, instantly killing him]

---

[Joker/Arthur, in a law car, is laughing and chuckling at the chaos existence spread to Gotham City]

Cop ane: Cease laughing, y'all freak. This isn't funny.

Cop ii: Yeah, the whole fucking urban center'south on burn because of yous.

Joker: I know... Isn't it cute?

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[Arthur is laughing loudly during a psychiatric test at Arkham Land Hospital. He before long settles down, simply still laughs]

Psychiatrist: What'southward so funny?

Arthur: [laughing and chuckling some more] I was merely thinking...only thinking of a joke.

[shot of a immature Bruce Wayne standing over the bodies of his dead parents as the camera pulls back and Arthur'south laughter is heard]

Psychiatrist: Practise you wanna tell it to me?

Arthur: [softly whispers] You wouldn't get it.

Nearly Joker (2019 film) [edit]

This Joker's genesis is determinedly mature and uncartoony, compared to, say, Jack Nicholson's low-level crook Jack Napier falling into a chemic vat in Tim Burton's Batman, turning him into the Joker with white skin, dark-green hair and a rictus grin. ~ Peter Bradshaw

This moving-picture show is non most Trump. It'due south nigh the America that gave the states Trump — the America which feels no need to help the outcast, the destitute. The America where the filthy rich just get richer and filthier. Except in this story a discomfiting question is posed: What if one twenty-four hour period the dispossessed decide to fight dorsum? ~ Michael Moore

I don't think the Joker had gratis volition, given his life. He was a walking fourth dimension bomb waiting to explode—all it took was some significant life stress, beatings up, losing a job. You've got nothing left.… The well-documented risk factors—this was [the character's] destiny. No one is built-in into that kind of violence. ~ Adrian Raine

• We share each other's grief and try to lighten each other'southward burdens caused by that "ane bad twenty-four hours." Then we go along to grieve with and back up the survivors and victims' families like those of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, shooting during a screening of The Night Knight Rises that killed 12 and wounded seventy others. But, while their entrada against Joker and Warner Bros. may evoke our sympathies, it is counterproductive to their goal as it sets a bad precedent for activist groups trying to define the boundaries between free speech, hate speech and violence-promoting speech.
  Notwithstanding, though I am supportive of their goal, this is the wrong movie and the incorrect strategy to promote the fight for gun control because it creates a diversion. First, the strategy is wrong because it feels uncomfortably shut to passive extortion. Even though at that place is no call to boycott, they take bandage a drapery over the film that is meant to be dissentious. No matter how Warners reacts, the damage has already been washed. Even if Warners complied with their demands, the movie has been tainted in the eyes of the average moviegoer. A photo of a Warner Bros. executive handing them a large cheque wouldn't modify that. At that place'southward therefore no incentive for the studio to comply. In fact, according to a Warner Bros. statement in response: "Our company has a long history of donating to victims of violence, including Aurora, and in contempo weeks, our parent company joined other business concern leaders to call on policymakers to enact bipartisan legislation to accost this epidemic."
  2d, Warner Bros. and Joker are the wrong focus of attention, which further compromises the grouping's goal. Despite their claim that "we support your right to costless spoken language and gratis expression," launching this entrada effectually a motion-picture show — peculiarly ane like this that strives to be more than creative than exploitative — can have a spooky effect on free expression.
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why the 'Joker' Gun Violence Protests Miss the Marking", The Hollywood Reporter, (x/2/2019)

• This Joker's genesis is determinedly mature and uncartoony, compared to, say, Jack Nicholson'due south low-level cheat Jack Napier falling into a chemical vat in Tim Burton'south Batman, turning him into the Joker with white skin, green hair and a rictus grin. (The look of DC's Joker was originally inspired by Conrad Veidt in the 1928 silent classic The Homo Who Laughs, a homo whose confront was disfigured into a grin by his begetter'south political enemies.)
  At that place is no reason why Phoenix's elaborately backstoried Joker shouldn't be as powerful every bit Heath Ledger'due south mysterious, motiveless, originless Joker in The Dark Knight. Just at some stage the comic-book earth of supervillaindom has to exist entered, and Ledger was more powerful because he wasn't weighed down with all this realist detail and overblown ironic noir grandeur, and he wasn't forced to deport an entire story on his own. This Joker has just one human action in him: the starting time deed. The moving picture somehow manages to be desperately serious and very shallow.
  • Peter Bradshaw, "Joker review – the virtually disappointing film of the yr ", The Guardian, (October iii, 2019).

• Joaquin Phoenix renders the iconic villain on an intimate, human scale in Joker, a disturbing picture about one human being's psychological destruction and a city's descent into criminal anarchy.
  • Justin Chang, "'Joker': A Piercing Psychological Portrait Of Batman's Notorious Nemesis", Fresh Air, NPR, (October three, 2019).

• Phoenix makes Arthur an uncommonly vivid monster. His performance is a symphony of scowls, howls, grins, grimaces and, of grade, those endless fits of laughter. It'due south a big, grotesquely showy piece of acting, but you tin can't accept your eyes off him.
  • Justin Chang, "'Joker': A Piercing Psychological Portrait Of Batman's Notorious Nemesis", Fresh Air, NPR, (Oct 3, 2019).

• But every bit convincingly gritty every bit it looks, "Joker" falters in its attempt to conjure a backdrop of social unrest. Nosotros hear news of a rising in violent criminal offence and anti-rich sentiment aimed at billionaire tycoons like Thomas Wayne, whose son Bruce Wayne volition, of grade, abound up to get Batman himself. But these stabs at political relevance feel mostly coy and disengaged.
  • Justin Chang, "'Joker': A Piercing Psychological Portrait Of Batman's Notorious Nemesis", Fresh Air, NPR, (October 3, 2019).

• I think that it'south important to actually look at those individuals who are suffering from mental illness and really try to observe some dearest and empathy for these people. For me, the themes in that moving-picture show were empathy and feeling pitiful and empathetic for that character.
  • Emma Tillinger Koskoff in Producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff on Emotional Themes of 'Joker': "I Know It's Very Controversial", by Ciara McVey, Hollywood Reporter, (11/23/2019)

• But what condition? Could it exist pseudobulbar impact, which is neurological in origin and gives rise to uncontained laughing and crying? Under stress, Arthur certainly breaks into a hyena'south cackle, which stops as abruptly as information technology starts; he also weeps, and, in closeup, we follow the tracks of the tears on his clown's white-painted face. (I oasis't seen such artful drips since 1971, when Dirk Bogarde's hair dye melted, along with his soul, at the end of "Death in Venice.") The film, still, takes no serious interest in what might exist wrong with Arthur. It merely invites us to scout his wrongness grow out of control and swell into violence, and proposes a vague connection betwixt that private swelling and a wider social malady. "Is it simply me, or is it getting crazier out there?" he asks. Guess what: it'due south both!
  • Anthony Lane, "Todd Phillips's "Joker" Is No Laughing Matter", The New Yorker, (September 27, 2019, published Oct 7, 2019)

• What is agreed upon, amid those who have seen "Joker," is the prowess with which Phoenix holds it all together. His face may get the blackface, but it's his whole body, coiled upon itself similar a spring of flesh, from which the movie's free energy is released. He's so thin that, when he strips to the waist and bends, his spine and shoulder blades jut out from the skin; is he a fallen angel, with his wings chopped off, or a skeleton-in-waiting, halfway to the grave? Francis Bacon, I recall, would have stared at Arthur with a hungry eye.
  • Anthony Lane, "Todd Phillips'southward "Joker" Is No Laughing Affair", The New Yorker, (September 27, 2019, published October seven, 2019)

• "Joker" is no superhero nor supervillain nor comic volume movie. The film is set somewhere in the belatedly '70s in Gotham Metropolis, and Phillips makes no attempt to disguise it for anything other than what it is: New York City, the headquarters of most real-life villainy: the rich who dominion united states of america, the banks and corporations for whom we toil, the media which feeds usa a daily diet "news" they think nosotros should blot.
  This movie is non near Trump. It'southward most the America that gave u.s.a. Trump — the America which feels no need to help the outcast, the destitute. The America where the filthy rich merely get richer and filthier. Except in this story a discomfiting question is posed: What if i 24-hour interval the dispossessed decide to fight dorsum?
  • Michael Moore, "'Joker': Michael Moore Writes Tribute to Todd Phillips' 'Cinematic Masterpiece'", diversity,(December 18, 2022 )

• For 42 years, I've studied the cause of law-breaking and violence. And while watching this moving picture, I thought, Wow, what a revelation this was. I need to purchase this moving picture down the road, make excerpt clips of it to illustrate […] Information technology is a keen educational tool well-nigh the making of the murderer. That threw me. I talk almost all of these factors in the course, and honestly, it's really hard to get a true-life story that fits all of these pieces together, allow lone a very dramatic and stylized pic that illustrates these factors quite strongly. That was really a revelation.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Peachy Educational Tool", (October xiv, 2019).

• Physical abuse is on the list, as is fail and malnutrition as a kid. Being brought up in poverty is a adventure factor. He'due south adopted, and kids who are adopted are two to three times more than likely to get criminal…certainly twice the rate of violence is well established. If you're wondering why that is, it's because with adoptions, the baby is separated from the mum for time—and that is breakage of the mother-infant bonding procedure in a disquisitional catamenia that we know affects personality evolution down the route.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Great Educational Tool", (Oct xiv, 2019).

• [T]he link between mental health issues and violence is, of course, controversial. We don't desire to stigmatize mentally sick people as being unsafe people. But nosotros do know that mental illness is a significant predisposition to violence, which we have to recognize so that people can exist treated.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Great Educational Tool", (Oct 14, 2019).

• Mentally ill people don't go around serial-killing people—plotting a homicide or a bank robbery or a break-in. No, they react on impulse emotionally. It'due south impulsive and emotion-driven." And in the motion-picture show, Raine pointed out, all of Arthur's violence seemed authentic to him because information technology was "reactive assailment."
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Groovy Educational Tool", (October 14, 2019).

• I don't think the Joker had free will, given his life. He was a walking time bomb waiting to explode—all it took was some significant life stress, beatings upwardly, losing a job. You lot've got nil left.… The well-documented run a risk factors—this was [the character's] destiny. No one is born into that kind of violence.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Great Educational Tool", (Oct fourteen, 2019).

Cast [edit]

• Joaquin Phoenix – Arthur Fleck / Joker
• Robert De Niro – Murray Franklin
• Zazie Beetz – Sophie Dumond
• Frances Conroy – Penny Flake
• Brett Cullen – Thomas Wayne
• Shea Whigham – Detective Burke
• Bill Camp – Detective Garrity
• Glenn Fleshler – Randall
• Leigh Gill – Gary
• Josh Pais – Hoyt Vaughn
• Douglas Hodge – Alfred Pennyworth
• Dante Pereira-Olson – Bruce Wayne
• Carrie Louise Putrello – Martha Wayne
• Hannah Gross – Immature Penny

External links [edit]

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