Ive Got Nothing but a Heartache and I Just Want to Let You Know That Im About to Go Insane

What practice you go when you cantankerous a mentally-ill loner with a lodge that abandons him and treats him like trash!? I'll tell you what you go: You go what yous fucking deserve!

Joker is a 2019 American psychological thriller movie. The film, based on DC Comics characters, stars Joaquin Phoenix equally the Joker. An origin story fix in 1981, the motion picture follows Arthur Scrap, a failed stand-upwardly comedian who turns to a life of criminal offence and anarchy in Gotham City.

Directed by Todd Phillips. Written by Todd Phillips and Scott Silver

Arthur Fleck / Joker [edit]

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

• [written in notebook] The worst part of having a mental affliction is people look you to deport every bit if you lot don't.
• [written in notebook] I just hope my death makes more cents than my life.
• You know what'due south funny? Yous know what really makes me laugh? I used to think that my life was a tragedy...merely now I realize...information technology'southward a fucking comedy.
• You don't heed, practise you? You just ask the same questions every week. "How's your chore?" "Are y'all having negative thoughts?" All I have are negative thoughts.
• [to Penny Flake] You know, you used to tell me...that my express mirth was a status. That there was something wrong with me. There isn't. That's the real me.
• Is it simply me.....or is it getting crazier out there?
• When y'all bring me out, tin can y'all introduce me as Joker?
• [to Thomas Wayne] I know it seems foreign, I don't mean to make y'all uncomfortable, I don't know why everyone is so rude, I don't know why yous are; I don't want anything from you. Perchance a little warmth, peradventure a hug, "Dad", maybe just a bit of common fucking decency!
• I haven't been happy one infinitesimal of my entire fucking life.
• I had a bad twenty-four hours.
• For my whole life, I didn't know if I fifty-fifty really existed. But I practise. People are starting to find.

Dialogue [edit]

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

The motion-picture show provides non only the socio-psychological genesis of Joker, it besides implies a condemnation of the gild in which a protestation can just presume the form of a new tribe led by Joker. ~ Slavoj Zizek^[ane]

Joker: Knock knock.

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

Joker: It's the police force, ma'am. Your son'due south been hit by a drunk driver. He's dead! [laughs; audition 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'south non funny, Arthur. That's not the kind of sense of humor we do on this show.

Joker: Okay... Yeah, you lot know what? I-I'm sor-I'm sorry. I know. Information technology'southward just, y'all know, information technology's been a crude 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 grapheme] Okay, I'g waiting for the punchline.

Joker: In that location is no punchline. Information technology's non a joke.

[the crowd gasps]

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

Joker: Mm-hmm.

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

Joker: I've got nothing left to lose. Zippo tin hurt me anymore. My life is nothing merely a comedy.

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

Joker: I practise. And I'one thousand tired of pretending it's non. Comedy is subjective, Murray. Isn't that what they say? All of you, the system that knows so much, you decide what'south right or wrong. The same fashion that you lot decide what's [points to himself] funny or [gestures over to Murray] not!

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

Murray Franklin: [now genuinely disturbed] O-Okay, I-I think...I-I might understand it. You lot...did this to start a move? To become a-a symbol?

Joker: C'monday, Mur-ray. Practice I look like the kind of clown that could start a motility? I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is atrocious these days. It'south plenty to make anyone crazy.

Murray Franklin: Alright. And then that's information technology then, you're crazy. That'southward your defense for killing three young men?

Joker: [smugly] No. They couldn't carry a melody to salvage their lives. [the crowd boos and jeers; Joker/Arthur grows frustrated] Ugh, why is everybody so upset near these guys? If it was me dying on the sidewalk, you'd walk right over me! I pass you every day, and you don't find me! Simply these guys... What, because Thomas Wayne went and cried about them on Tv set?!

Murray Franklin: You accept a problem with Thomas Wayne?

Joker: Yep, I practice! Take you seen what it'south like out there, Mur-ray? Do you always actually go out the studio? Everybody just yells, shouts, and screams at each other. Nobody'south civil anymore! Nobody thinks what it's like to be the other guy. You think men like Thomas Wayne ever retrieve what it'south like to be someone like me?! To exist somebody just themselves?! They don't. They think we'll all just sit there and take it like good little boys! That we won't werewolf and go wild!!

Murray Franklin: [trying to stay composed] You finished? I mean, at that place'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 anybody is awful.

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

Murray Franklin: Me? I'1000 awful? Oh, yeah, how am I awful?

Joker: Playing my video. Inviting me on the prove. Yous just wanted to make fun of me. You're just similar the rest of 'em.

Murray Franklin: [offended] You don't know the outset thing about me, pal. Look what happened because of what you lot did. What it led to. In that location are riots out in that location. 2 policemen are in disquisitional condition...[Joker/Arthur laughs]...and you're laughing. Yous're laughing. Someone was killed today considering of what you did.

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

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

Joker: What practise yous become...

Murray Franklin: I don't think and so.

Joker: ...When you cross...

Murray Franklin: I call up we're done with your jokes, that's it.

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

Murray Franklin: Call the constabulary, Factor!

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

Murray Franklin: Phone call the law!

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

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[Joker/Arthur, in a constabulary auto, is laughing and chuckling at the chaos being spread to Gotham City]

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

Cop 2: Yep, the whole fucking city'southward on fire because of yous.

Joker: I know... Isn't information technology beautiful?

---

[Arthur is laughing loudly during a psychiatric examination at Arkham Land Infirmary. He soon settles down, but however laughs]

Psychiatrist: What's and so funny?

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

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

Psychiatrist: Practice you wanna tell it to me?

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

Well-nigh Joker (2019 motion picture) [edit]

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

This movie is non nearly Trump. It'southward about the America that gave us Trump — the America which feels no need to assistance the outcast, the destitute. The America where the filthy rich just go richer and filthier. Except in this story a discomfiting question is posed: What if one mean solar day the dispossessed decide to fight back? ~ Michael Moore

I don't think the Joker had free volition, given his life. He was a walking time bomb waiting to explode—all it took was some significant life stress, beatings upward, losing a job. You've got nix left.… The well-documented gamble factors—this was [the character's] destiny. No 1 is built-in into that kind of violence. ~ Adrian Raine

• We share each other'south grief and try to lighten each other'due south burdens caused by that "one bad twenty-four hour period." And and so nosotros 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 70 others. Simply, while their campaign 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 betwixt gratis speech communication, detest speech and violence-promoting oral communication.
  However, though I am supportive of their goal, this is the wrong movie and the incorrect strategy to promote the fight for gun control because information technology creates a diversion. Beginning, the strategy is wrong considering information technology feels uncomfortably close to passive extortion. Fifty-fifty though there is no telephone call to cold-shoulder, they have cast a pall over the film that is meant to be damaging. No affair 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 check wouldn't alter 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 recent 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 wrong focus of attention, which further compromises the group'southward goal. Despite their merits that "we support your correct to free speech and complimentary expression," launching this campaign around a movie — especially one similar this that strives to exist more artistic than exploitative — tin can have a chilling effect on free expression.
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Why the 'Joker' Gun Violence Protests Miss the Marking", The Hollywood Reporter, (ten/2/2019)

• 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 pilus and a rictus smile. (The look of DC'south Joker was originally inspired by Conrad Veidt in the 1928 silent classic The Man Who Laughs, a human whose face 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 equally powerful equally Heath Ledger'southward mysterious, motiveless, originless Joker in The Dark Knight. Simply at some stage the comic-book earth of supervillaindom has to be entered, and Ledger was more powerful considering he wasn't weighed downward with all this realist detail and overblown ironic noir grandeur, and he wasn't forced to acquit an entire story on his own. This Joker has merely one human activity in him: the showtime act. The film somehow manages to be badly serious and very shallow.
  • Peter Bradshaw, "Joker review – the most disappointing film of the year ", The Guardian, (Oct iii, 2019).

• Joaquin Phoenix renders the iconic villain on an intimate, human scale in Joker, a disturbing moving picture about i man'southward psychological destruction and a metropolis's descent into criminal anarchy.
  • Justin Chang, "'Joker': A Piercing Psychological Portrait Of Batman'due south Notorious Nemesis", Fresh Air, NPR, (October 3, 2019).

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

• Simply as convincingly gritty as it looks, "Joker" falters in its attempt to conjure a backdrop of social unrest. Nosotros hear news of a ascension in violent crime and anti-rich sentiment aimed at billionaire tycoons like Thomas Wayne, whose son Bruce Wayne will, of course, abound upwardly to become Batman himself. Just these stabs at political relevance experience mostly coy and disengaged.
  • Justin Chang, "'Joker': A Piercing Psychological Portrait Of Batman'south Notorious Nemesis", Fresh Air, NPR, (Oct three, 2019).

• I retrieve that it's of import to really look at those individuals who are suffering from mental illness and really endeavor to detect some love and empathy for these people. For me, the themes in that movie were empathy and feeling sad 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", past Ciara McVey, Hollywood Reporter, (11/23/2019)

• But what condition? Could information technology exist pseudobulbar impact, which is neurological in origin and gives rise to uncontained laughing and crying? Nether stress, Arthur certainly breaks into a hyena's cackle, which stops every bit abruptly every bit it starts; he also weeps, and, in closeup, we follow the tracks of the tears on his clown's white-painted face. (I haven't seen such aesthetic drips since 1971, when Dirk Bogarde'south hair dye melted, forth with his soul, at the end of "Death in Venice.") The film, however, takes no serious interest in what might be wrong with Arthur. It but invites the states to lookout man his wrongness abound out of control and bang-up into violence, and proposes a vague connection between that private swelling and a wider social malady. "Is it simply me, or is it getting crazier out there?" he asks. Estimate what: it'southward 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, amidst those who take seen "Joker," is the prowess with which Phoenix holds it all together. His face may get the greasepaint, but it's his whole torso, coiled upon itself like 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 Salary, 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 Oct 7, 2019)

• "Joker" is no superhero nor supervillain nor comic book film. The film is set somewhere in the belatedly '70s in Gotham City, and Phillips makes no attempt to disguise it for anything other than what information technology is: New York City, the headquarters of about 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 non near Trump. It's 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 day the dispossessed make up one's mind to fight back?
  • Michael Moore, "'Joker': Michael Moore Writes Tribute to Todd Phillips' 'Cinematic Masterpiece'", variety,(December 18, 2019 )

• For 42 years, I've studied the crusade of crime and violence. And while watching this flick, I thought, Wow, what a revelation this was. I need to purchase this pic downward the route, make excerpt clips of it to illustrate […] It is a great educational tool almost the making of the murderer. That threw me. I talk almost all of these factors in the form, and honestly, information technology's really hard to get a true-life story that fits all of these pieces together, allow alone a very dramatic and stylized moving picture that illustrates these factors quite strongly. That was really a revelation.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Keen Educational Tool", (October 14, 2019).

• Physical abuse is on the list, as is neglect and malnutrition as a child. Being brought upwardly in poverty is a risk factor. He's adopted, and kids who are adopted are two to three times more likely to become criminal…certainly twice the charge per unit of violence is well established. If you're wondering why that is, it's considering with adoptions, the babe is separated from the mum for time—and that is breakage of the mother-babe bonding process in a critical period that nosotros know affects personality development down the route.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Neat Educational Tool", (October xiv, 2019).

• [T]he link between mental health problems and violence is, of form, controversial. Nosotros don't want to stigmatize mentally ill people as being unsafe people. But nosotros practise know that mental illness is a significant predisposition to violence, which nosotros have to recognize so that people tin be treated.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Dandy Educational Tool", (October 14, 2019).

• Mentally sick 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 moving picture, Raine pointed out, all of Arthur's violence seemed authentic to him because it was "reactive aggression."
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Great Educational Tool", (October xiv, 2019).

• I don't think the Joker had gratuitous volition, given his life. He was a walking time bomb waiting to explode—all information technology took was some significant life stress, beatings upwardly, losing a job. You've got zippo left.… The well-documented chance factors—this was [the character's] destiny. No ane is built-in into that kind of violence.
  • Adrian Raine in Julie Miller, "Leading Neurocriminologist Considers Joker "a Not bad Educational Tool", (October fourteen, 2019).

Cast [edit]

• Joaquin Phoenix – Arthur Fleck / Joker
• Robert De Niro – Murray Franklin
• Zazie Beetz – Sophie Dumond
• Frances Conroy – Penny Fleck
• 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 – Young Penny

External links [edit]

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