Joker Review
For as high strung and fantastical as comic book movies can be, Joker is boldly realistic and grounds itself in serious confrontational issues that perpetuate the waning yet thick stigma surrounding mental illness. In fact, Joker is so tensely candid about its character’s descent toward insanity, that it forces audiences to question how our own short comings in empathy can unintentionally break people who are naturally susceptible to fall apart.
To me, art exists to guide our trains of thought into a general direction rather than to take us to a specific destination. While not it’s intention, this is a film that will inevitably create controversial feelings of guilt over a character that simultaneously represents the pitfalls of mental health’s stigma as well as modern terrorism. In the film’s defense, I believe Joker doesn’t want to inspire shame or violence, rather, it aims to...
