TIFF Movie Overview: Joker Thinks It’s Saying One thing, However Acts Extra Like A Class Clown
The Pitch: A downtrodden clown/aspiring comic named Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is struggling to outlive within the underbelly of early 1980s Gotham Metropolis. He’s bullied and finally fired from his day job at a rent-a-clown company. His makes an attempt at standup earn laughs and a spotlight for all the improper causes. His barely useful remedy classes are minimize off attributable to a scarcity of funding (and his entry to remedy disappears together with them). He cares for his ailing mom within the derelict residence they share. He spends what little free time he has watching and indulging in deluded daydreams about TV present host Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro).
From this unenviable start line, Fleck’s life descends into additional chaos and tragedy. In response, he begins to embody a villain identified solely as Joker.
Positive, Joker is one other comedian e book movie in an period riddled with comedian e book films, nevertheless it’s ostensibly totally different for 2 main causes: 01.) It’s a standalone piece that has its normal references to better Batman lore and hallmarks, however no direct narrative or aesthetic connection to every other franchises occurring in the intervening time. 02.) It’s darkish. Sure, in principle even darker than these different “darkish” movies that featured Batman, Joker, and firm and used comedian archetypes as a way to discover deeper and never solely fairly features of the human situation.
