Certain periods of American history can now be viewed solely through the lens of the Joker we had at the time. The 1960s had Cesar Romero, whose slapstick hijinks mirrored the CIA's comical efforts to kill communist leaders using exploding condoms and poisoned dental dams Jack Nicholson, a relic of decades past who committed crimes such as making an art gallery very scary and twisted. Jared Leto play the funniest Joker of all time, an initially unintentionally funny byproduct of a moron actor who thought himself far smarter than he actually was... The months we spent making fun of Leto’s Joker actually look very quaint now. They’re sort of a time capsule, a last look at what semi irony literate media obsessives spoke and behaved like before Donald Trump was elected...The movie itself is very straightforward... Arthur Fleck
(Joaquin Phoenix)...One night Fleck is on the subway, reflecting on his long day of being in society, and he sees a group of Wall Street pricks aggressively hit on, then harass a woman in his train car. One thing leads to another, and our protagonist shoots them dead to the last man in one of the film’s best scenes...I firmly believe that we are, as a culture, attempting to relive 2004-2006 by playing World of Warcraft, listening to Tool, and watching self-serious Batman universe movies... But if this film had come out in that time and you removed The Joker from the equation, it would be forgotten a day after its release...Until they make another fucking one of these, see you out there in society!!!!
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