Joker Review (Spoilers)

Not having a spoiler alert would be no laughing matter. 

 

Show notes:

 

-Apologies for the mic handling noises at the very beginning. They subside.

 

-The tone 

 

-Joaquin Phoenix

 

-The pace

 

-Mental illness

 

-USA Today  article - https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/10/23/what-joker-movie-gets-right-wrong-about-mental-illness-violence/3978028002/

 

-Link between mental illness and violent behavior (there isn’t one)

 

-People with mental illness are ten times as likely to be victims of violent crime

 

-Horror movies, nuance, and “crazy” character development

 

-Representation of someone with mental illness

 

-Sympathy for Arthur and how it relates to Breaking Bad

 

-We’re all in this together 

 

-It’s still a work of fiction

 

-Pseudobulbar affect

 

-Taxi Driver and King of Comedy

 

-New York in the 1970s

 

-Social Services being cut

 

-Sophie

 

-Batman

 

-Thomas Wayne

 

-Joaquin Phoenix’s performance 

 

-The other Jokers

 

-If I was going to play the Joker

 

-Production and design

 

-Nitpicking

 

-It sits with you

 

-One more nitpick

 

-No hero

 

-What I like about movies

 

-Plugs!

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