 Let me just say something about, I want to say something more about the movie Joker. And maybe we can add this to my previous review. Maybe this will be Joker too. I got a lot of criticism in the comment section on Joker that no, I didn't understand the movie. The movie's really about the character of Joker who has this awful childhood and is mentally ill and is abused by his mother and his mother is terrible towards him and now everybody's terrible towards him and it's all kind of a movie about mental health. Now, I mean, I think that's a complete misreading of what the movie's about. If the movie Joker was about mental health and somebody dealing with mental health issues and being abandoned and we all feel sorry for him at the end of the movie, then you wouldn't have had to kill Batman's parents. You wouldn't have had had riots in the streets. You wouldn't have had a social commentary around the whole thing. You would have just had a movie and I'm sure they've been movies about this, but somebody who is horribly mentally retarded at the end of the movie, after killing all these people, this mentally ill person would be in a mental institution and you would feel sorry for the person. You would feel even worse for his victims and there would be some resolution at the end of the movie in terms of where he goes, but no. And look, I know this is a setup for Batman movies, but somebody chose to make this. Let me also make out one of the things. Some people said, no, you're on, you missed the movie because here's what the director said about the movie. It doesn't matter what an artist says about his artwork. I mean, it's almost irrelevant what an artist says about his artwork, what he intended to project. The question is what objectively was projected in the movie? What objectively was reflected in the movie? Somebody, this director, chose to make a movie about Joker. He chose to make this particular movie to set up this particular evil character in the Batman series and he chose to set him up in a particular way and he chose to create a world around him because that's what directors, that's what movies do. They create a world. He chose to create a world around him with particular characteristics and particular motivations, particular actions. Now, it's true that the Batman story constrains him in terms of what he can do, but he chose to do it and the Batman universe inherently project a certain view of the world, a certain view of life, a certain view of the characters. There's no way to get around that. So the movie is what it is, not what the director says it is and not what you want it to be. It is what integrates all of it. Now, if it's a good work of art, now not all movies are good in the sense that they integrate into a theme, but Joker actually does integrate into a theme. Now, this is my attempt to define the theme of Joker and I'm curious to see what you guys think because you have to be able to integrate here the life of Joker and his arc and at the same time, what is going on around him because what is going on around him is not irrelevant to the movie. It is a main portion of the movie, partially because what is going on around him affects him. For example, he doesn't get his medication because the government isn't providing it anymore because they're incompetent and they've run out of money. But there's also a garbage strike and there's also massive unemployment and there is also riots in the streets, riots in the streets that adopt his murderous persona, his persona as a murderer, as their theme. So what is the same with what is happening to the people out in the streets and what is happening during his life to Joker? What happens to them both? Well, both are betrayed by those that they depend on. Joker is betrayed from childhood by his mother, by his stepfather, I guess by his original father, I can't remember what happened to the original father. He's betrayed by the system, by the government, by his therapist. He's betrayed by the people around him that he depends on. Now, why does he depend on them? Well, he depends on them because he's mentally ill. Now, why is he mentally ill? Mentally ill because they betrayed him to begin with. So it's kind of a, it's a vicious circle. But as the movie portrays, there's no escape for him. There's no way out. It's very deterministic, although you could argue that if you're traumatized enough in childhood by your parents about external factors, there's no way to escape that, right? You're gonna suffer for it. But so Joker suffers for it and he becomes, he becomes the only thing that the movie, yeah, Joker's mother's boyfriend beats him not. I thought it was a stepdad, but it's a boyfriend, whatever. And the mother denies it and the mother rejects it or allows for it. But the point is that the movie portrays that the only solution to be abandoned and betrayed by those who you depend on is violence, right? So the only solution to being abandoned and betrayed by those you depend on is violence. That to me is the theme of the movie. Now that's true of Joker, we can see that, right? So he resorts to violence because he has nowhere else to go. He's being betrayed by everything. And he actually gets a kick out of the violence. The violence empowers him. The violence gives him motivation, excites him, thrills him. And the same with the mob. Who has betrayed the mob? Who does the mob depend on? The mob depends on government. The mob depends on the rich. The mob depends on Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne, the Batman's father, right? And they have betrayed the mob. And therefore the only solution for the mob is violence. And of course, the movie doesn't challenge the idea that the mob is dependent on government. That the mob must get its livelihood from government. That the jobs must be created by government. That drugs for mental health must be distributed by government. That the rich, I mean, think about the character of Bruce Wayne in the movie. He is an asshole. He's an arrogant. He's a caricature of the rich man who doesn't care about anybody, who doesn't care about the poor, who calls them, you know, what do you call it? He calls them the repugnant and, you know, Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne? What's the name of the father in, not John Wayne. Anyway, the father of Batman. He is, he's arrogant. He's detached and he gets killed in it because that's, because they can't rely on him. He's supposed to write to the rescue. Write to the rescue by doing what? By giving them stuff, by supporting them, by supporting a welfare state. So the movie's theme is, when betrayed by those you depend on and you depend on them, there is no alternative but violence. And that's a false theme. That is a false theme because at least you could argue, maybe you could argue for Joker that he had no options, right? But for society, of course it has options. The options are better system. The options that get rid of government. And you hear the mob is portrayed as mindless, nihilistic but lack with no choice. What can he do? And of course, the mob embraces Joker as their ideal as their ideal. And the one person who says that, you know, I want to do something better while dismissing the rioting and everything is Batman's father and he's killed. He's killed, right? So I think the theme is an evil thing. It's a theme of dependence, psychological and economic and existential dependence on others. It's Joker has no independence, not again, he's mentally ill, but you chose to make him mentally ill. The mother claims she couldn't have done anything. She claims mental illness and therefore she can't help herself. The mob can't help itself. It's just reacting to the betrayal. There is no personal responsibility. It's a rejection of the idea of personal responsibility. And basically, if it's a warning sign for anything, it's a pro-welfish state. Don't betray the people. Keep them fed, keep jobs coming for them so that they don't riot in the street, burn the city down and destroy. The nihilism is the only solution when government does not take care of its people. Just like violence for Joker is the only solution when he is betrayed by his mother. Anyway, that to me is the theme. That's what integrates every aspect of the movie. The movie's a good movie in that respect. It does actually integrate into a theme. The theme is just an evil theme. It's a bad thing. It's a bad thing. It's in that sense, it's not good. To me, shocking that the movie did so well. It did so well not just in the United States. It did well in Europe and the rest of the world. And to me, that's shocking and depressing about the state of the world. Usually movies with themes like this do very poorly. So maybe there's something else going on here. So is the white did so well, but maybe it's because people are responding to this thing. Robin mentions that Joker is also betrayed by the TV host. That's right. He looks up to the TV host, he betrays him. The only solution to betrayal like that because you're dependent on other people is violence. Okay, that's what I wanted to say about Joker. Okay, I guess if we don't have any additional questions and I don't see that we have, I'm gonna call this a night. Maybe we can have America splice that part about Joker and turn it into a Joker 2 short of video if Action Jackson is still there. He can do it. Yes. 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