I often digress and take a while to get to a main post in order to have a well worthwhile buildup. However, I will just go ahead and note the movie Joker was phenomenal. It was dark, depressing, and disturbing. It was also dynamic. Undoubtedly, Joaquin Phoenix deserves an Oscar nomination.
Now, there are some who were supremely disturbed by the film. It is, indeed, not for everyone. There are scenes where you flinch. There are scenes where one is sadly reminded of how mental health parity doesn’t exist. The mental health system is fractured. There are scenes that make you feel sympathy for a killer. It is not a straightforward right versus wrong film.
There are also scenes, including the ending, that are hard to completely explain. With the main question being was it real or not? And it is fitting that we should question what occurred. Joker, or Arthur Fleck, is an extremely unreliable narrator. As an auteur, we don’t know where he stands and where he is taking us. Where does the truth fall? A fitting question for our times. And one for which there are many interpretations.
My take: it was all fake.
“I used to think my life was a tragedy. But now I realize. It’s a comedy” – Joker
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psychologistmimi 
Someone said to me yesterday that a client (14 year old boy) asked her “what is truth?” It stopped her a bit before she said back “what do you think truth is?” Perspective is everything. I’ll eventually see the Joker. Fantastic reviews so far.
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Wow. Thats an interesting question for a kid to ask
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I thought so too
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Sky Fall… Sky FaLL AGain…
“Where Does ‘ThE’ Truth Lie”
Somewhere Between Villain
And Hero.. in other Words an
Only Real Difference Empathy…
Empathy Born Empathy Gardened
Ranging from
A Nicest
Happiest
Kindest
Most Loving
Person with
Compassion for
Others to Yes A
Newer Quintessential
Example of what Happens
when a Select Group of People
Elect a Batman Style Joker to Be Prez..
in other Words an Emperor Clothed With
Lies Gaslit as Truth for those who Follow
Relatively what they see as truth that other
Folks see as lies but it is so true they really
Believe IT.. WHere is Faith in Humanity WherE
Is Faith in Truth Where is Faith in anything NoW but
Saying Faux News is Gospel Truth that’s not the way
i see Faith in FacT i Don’t see it at All i Feel the Wind of
Truth and Light in me A Spirit in A Sky that is my Soul the
HeART of LoVE That Continues to Fly Higher as Fear and Hate
Continue
tHeir
Spiral
Down… A best
case scenario i see…
when A Joker now who
is a New Emperor with
Only Clothes.. oF Lies
Is All Around town now
Find those HUMANS
who Believe
in Truth
in Light
Who Truly Care Now For
Other Human Beings and
Stand Tall While Sky fall takes Place..
hmm.. there is a Song for that the one
that comes Before 2020 Sees ‘Wind’ again..
MeanWhile A Joker is here Large in Charge.. We ‘Sky Fall’ A bit for Real some more..
True the Dark is not all Bad A Truth Still is.. DarK Muses LovE LiGHT WiLL even more…
i suppose that is a
Lesson of the
New Batman
Movie to Show
Amazing
Reality
of the
Dark and then
to do our best to
escape that Labyrinth
that Maze BacK iNto Light..
WHere A Sky is No longer Falling Catching up..:)
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Indeed truth has an odd place between these oposite ends of the spectrum
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Truth
Ever More
Interesting
DarK Thru LiGHT..:)
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