Life Knock Me Down but I Get Up Again

What practice you go when you cross a mentally-ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash!? I'll tell y'all what you go: You become what you fucking deserve!

Joker is a 2022 American psychological thriller moving-picture show. The film, based on DC Comics characters, stars Joaquin Phoenix equally the Joker. An origin story set up in 1981, the film follows Arthur Fleck, a failed stand-up comedian who turns to a life of law-breaking and anarchy in Gotham Metropolis.

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

Arthur Flake / Joker [edit]

The worst function of having a mental affliction is people await you to behave as if you don't.

• [written in notebook] The worst part of having a mental illness is people expect you to bear as if y'all don't.
• [written in notebook] I just hope my death makes more cents than my life.
• You lot know what's funny? You know what really makes me express joy? I used to recall that my life was a tragedy...but now I realize...it's a fucking comedy.
• You don't heed, do you? You just ask the same questions every week. "How'due south your job?" "Are you having negative thoughts?" All I have are negative thoughts.
• [to Penny Flake] You know, you used to tell me...that my express joy was a condition. That there was something incorrect with me. At that place isn't. That'due south the real me.
• Is it just 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 lot uncomfortable, I don't know why anybody is so rude, I don't know why you lot are; I don't want anything from y'all. Maybe a little warmth, maybe a hug, "Dad", perchance just a bit of mutual fucking decency!
• I oasis't been happy i 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 exercise. People are starting to notice.

Dialogue [edit]

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

The film provides not only the socio-psychological genesis of Joker, it also implies a condemnation of the social club in which a protestation can only assume the grade of a new tribe led past Joker. ~ Slavoj Zizek^[i]

Joker: Knock knock.

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

Joker: It'due south the police, ma'am. Your son'due south been hitting by a boozer driver. He's expressionless! [laughs; audience gasps; musician in band goes "wah-wah" on trombone]

Dr. Sally: [unsettled] Oh no, no, no! No, y'all cannot joke virtually that!

Murray Franklin: [tense and somewhat spooked] Aye, that's not funny, Arthur. That's not the kind of humor we exercise on this evidence.

Joker: Okay... Yeah, y'all know what? I-I'thousand sor-I'k sorry. I know. It's merely, you know, it'due south 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, only trying to stay in character] Okay, I'm waiting for the punchline.

Joker: In that location is no punchline. It'southward not a joke.

[the oversupply gasps]

Murray Franklin: [a bit concerned and edgy] You're serious, aren't y'all? You're telling usa 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. Cipher can hurt me anymore. My life is nothing but a comedy.

Murray Franklin: Then let me become this straight. You think that killing those guys is funny?

Joker: I exercise. And I'1000 tired of pretending information technology's not. Comedy is subjective, Murray. Isn't that what they say? All of y'all, the arrangement that knows and so much, y'all decide what'south right or wrong. The same way that you determine what's [points to himself] funny or [gestures over to Murray] non!

Audience Fellow member: [angry and annoyed] Get him off!

Murray Franklin: [now genuinely disturbed] O-Okay, I-I think...I-I might understand it. Yous...did this to kickoff a motility? To become a-a symbol?

Joker: C'mon, Mur-ray. Practise I look like the kind of clown that could first a movement? I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.

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

Joker: [smugly] No. They couldn't acquit a melody to salve their lives. [the crowd boos and jeers; Joker/Arthur grows frustrated] Ugh, why is everybody and then upset about these guys? If it was me dying on the sidewalk, you'd walk correct over me! I laissez passer you every day, and you don't find me! Merely these guys... What, because Thomas Wayne went and cried most them on Television set?!

Murray Franklin: Y'all accept a problem with Thomas Wayne?

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

Murray Franklin: [trying to stay equanimous] You finished? I mean, there's so much cocky-pity, Arthur. You sound like you're making excuses for killing those young men. Not everybody, and I'll tell you lot this, not everyone is awful.

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

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

Joker: Playing my video. Inviting me on the show. You merely wanted to brand fun of me. You lot're only similar the residuum of 'em.

Murray Franklin: [offended] Y'all don't know the showtime matter near me, pal. Look what happened because of what you lot did. What it led to. In that location are riots out there. Two policemen are in critical status...[Joker/Arthur laughs]...and you lot're laughing. You're laughing. Someone was killed today considering of what you did.

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

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

Joker: What do you get...

Murray Franklin: I don't think so.

Joker: ...When you cross...

Murray Franklin: I retrieve we're done with your jokes, that's information technology.

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

Murray Franklin: Call the constabulary, Gene!

Joker: I'll tell you what you lot get!

Murray Franklin: Call the law!

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

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

Cop 1: Stop laughing, you freak. This isn't funny.

Cop ii: Yes, the whole fucking city'due south on fire because of yous.

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

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[Arthur is laughing loudly during a psychiatric examination at Arkham State Infirmary. He soon settles downwardly, but nonetheless laughs]

Psychiatrist: What's so funny?

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

[shot of a young Bruce Wayne standing over the bodies of his expressionless parents every bit the camera pulls back and Arthur'south laughter is heard]

Psychiatrist: Exercise yous wanna tell information technology to me?

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

Nigh Joker (2019 motion picture) [edit]

This Joker's genesis is determinedly mature and uncartoony, compared to, say, Jack Nicholson's depression-level cheat Jack Napier falling into a chemical vat in Tim Burton's Batman, turning him into the Joker with white peel, green hair and a rictus smiling. ~ Peter Bradshaw

This movie is not about Trump. It's nearly the America that gave us Trump — the America which feels no need to aid the outcast, the destitute. The America where the filthy rich only become richer and filthier. Except in this story a discomfiting question is posed: What if one day the dispossessed determine to fight back? ~ Michael Moore

I don't call up the Joker had free volition, given his life. He was a walking time flop waiting to explode—all it took was some pregnant life stress, beatings upwards, losing a job. You've got nothing left.… The well-documented risk factors—this was [the grapheme's] destiny. No one is born into that kind of violence. ~ Adrian Raine

• Nosotros share each other's grief and try to lighten each other's burdens caused by that "ane bad day." And so we continue to grieve with and support the survivors and victims' families like those of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, shooting during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises that killed 12 and wounded lxx others. But, while their entrada confronting Joker and Warner Bros. may evoke our sympathies, it is counterproductive to their goal as information technology sets a bad precedent for activist groups trying to define the boundaries between gratuitous speech, hate voice communication and violence-promoting speech.
  Yet, 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 incorrect because it feels uncomfortably shut to passive extortion. Even though there is no telephone call to boycott, they take cast a pall over the film that is meant to exist damaging. No matter how Warners reacts, the damage has already been done. Even if Warners complied with their demands, the movie has been tainted in the eyes of the boilerplate moviegoer. A photo of a Warner Bros. executive handing them a large cheque wouldn't modify that. There's therefore no incentive for the studio to comply. In fact, co-ordinate to a Warner Bros. argument 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 leaders to call on policymakers to enact bipartisan legislation to address this epidemic."
  Second, Warner Bros. and Joker are the incorrect focus of attending, which farther compromises the grouping'south goal. Despite their merits that "we back up your right to free speech and free expression," launching this campaign around a movie — peculiarly ane like this that strives to be more creative than exploitative — can take a chilling effect on complimentary expression.
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why the 'Joker' Gun Violence Protests Miss the Mark", The Hollywood Reporter, (10/ii/2019)

• 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'south Batman, turning him into the Joker with white skin, green hair and a rictus grin. (The await of DC'southward Joker was originally inspired by Conrad Veidt in the 1928 silent classic The Man Who Laughs, a homo whose face up was disfigured into a grin by his male parent'southward political enemies.)
  There is no reason why Phoenix's elaborately backstoried Joker shouldn't be as powerful every bit Heath Ledger's mysterious, motiveless, originless Joker in The Dark Knight. Just at some stage the comic-volume world of supervillaindom has to be entered, and Ledger was more than powerful because he wasn't weighed down with all this realist detail and overblown ironic noir grandeur, and he wasn't forced to carry an entire story on his ain. This Joker has just one human activity in him: the kickoff human activity. The film somehow manages to be desperately serious and very shallow.
  • Peter Bradshaw, "Joker review – the most disappointing film of the twelvemonth ", The Guardian, (October 3, 2019).

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

• Phoenix makes Arthur an exceptionally vivid monster. His functioning is a symphony of scowls, howls, grins, grimaces and, of grade, those endless fits of laughter. It's a big, grotesquely showy piece of acting, simply you lot tin can't take 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 endeavour to conjure a backdrop of social unrest. We hear news of a rise in violent crime and anti-rich sentiment aimed at billionaire tycoons like Thomas Wayne, whose son Bruce Wayne will, of course, grow up to become 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, (Oct three, 2019).

• I think that information technology's important to really look at those individuals who are suffering from mental illness and really endeavour to find some love and empathy for these people. For me, the themes in that movie were empathy and feeling distressing and empathetic for that character.
  • Emma Tillinger Koskoff in Producer Emma Tillinger Koskoff on Emotional Themes of 'Joker': "I Know Information technology's Very Controversial", by Ciara McVey, Hollywood Reporter, (eleven/23/2019)

• Merely what condition? Could it be pseudobulbar bear on, which is neurological in origin and gives rise to uncontained laughing and crying? Under stress, Arthur certainly breaks into a hyena'south chortle, which stops as abruptly as it starts; he likewise weeps, and, in closeup, we follow the tracks of the tears on his clown'southward white-painted face. (I haven't seen such artful drips since 1971, when Dirk Bogarde'due south hair dye melted, along with his soul, at the finish of "Death in Venice.") The picture, however, takes no serious interest in what might be wrong with Arthur. It but invites us to watch his wrongness abound out of command and swell into violence, and proposes a vague connection between that private swelling and a wider social malady. "Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out at that place?" he asks. Guess what: it'south both!
  • Anthony Lane, "Todd Phillips's "Joker" Is No Laughing Matter", The New Yorker, (September 27, 2019, published October 7, 2019)

• What is agreed upon, among those who have seen "Joker," is the prowess with which Phoenix holds it all together. His confront may get the greasepaint, simply it's his whole body, coiled upon itself like a spring of flesh, from which the movie'southward 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 think, would accept stared at Arthur with a hungry centre.
  • Anthony Lane, "Todd Phillips's "Joker" Is No Laughing Matter", The New Yorker, (September 27, 2019, published October 7, 2019)

• "Joker" is no superhero nor supervillain nor comic book motion picture. The movie is set somewhere in the tardily '70s in Gotham City, 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 rule us, the banks and corporations for whom we toil, the media which feeds us a daily diet "news" they think we should absorb.
  This movie is not about Trump. It'due south about the America that gave united 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 solar day the dispossessed make up one's mind to fight dorsum?
  • Michael Moore, "'Joker': Michael Moore Writes Tribute to Todd Phillips' 'Cinematic Masterpiece'", variety,(December 18, 2022 )

• For 42 years, I've studied the cause of criminal offence and violence. And while watching this film, I idea, Wow, what a revelation this was. I demand to buy this picture show downwardly the route, make excerpt clips of it to illustrate […] It is a swell educational tool about the making of the murderer. That threw me. I talk near all of these factors in the form, and honestly, information technology'south really hard to go a truthful-life story that fits all of these pieces together, let alone a very dramatic and stylized movie that illustrates these factors quite strongly. That was really a revelation.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Great Educational Tool", (October fourteen, 2019).

• Physical abuse is on the listing, as is neglect and malnutrition equally a kid. Being brought upwards in poverty is a risk factor. He's adopted, and kids who are adopted are 2 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 considering with adoptions, the baby is separated from the mum for fourth dimension—and that is breakage of the mother-infant bonding process in a critical menses that we know affects personality development downwards the road.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Great Educational Tool", (October 14, 2019).

• [T]he link between mental wellness problems and violence is, of course, controversial. We don't desire to stigmatize mentally ill people as being dangerous people. But nosotros do know that mental illness is a pregnant predisposition to violence, which we accept to recognize then that people tin be treated.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Peachy Educational Tool", (October 14, 2019).

• Mentally ill people don't go around serial-killing people—plotting a homicide or a bank robbery or a burglary. No, they react on impulse emotionally. It's impulsive and emotion-driven." And in the film, Raine pointed out, all of Arthur'due south violence seemed accurate to him because it was "reactive aggression."
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Slap-up Educational Tool", (Oct 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 up, losing a task. You've got nothing left.… The well-documented risk factors—this was [the character'south] destiny. No one is born into that kind of violence.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Peachy Educational Tool", (October 14, 2019).

Cast [edit]

• Joaquin Phoenix – Arthur Scrap / Joker
• Robert De Niro – Murray Franklin
• Zazie Beetz – Sophie Dumond
• Frances Conroy – Penny Chip
• Brett Cullen – Thomas Wayne
• Shea Whigham – Detective Burke
• Bill Military 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 – Young Penny

External links [edit]

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