"Joker" (Joker) is good? Jacques Phoenix’s performance was not disappointing. His body, voice and emotion can hook the audience into the inner world of this poor man Arthur, and see his path of madness with sympathy. As for whether or not to sympathize with the riot against the rich, it depends on the audience's own position on order and authority.
It is not that the demonstrators were inspired by this "clown" to take to the streets to fight, but that the demonstrators (in the play) did not cut their seats, so that they tolerated the "clown" who said he had no interest in politics and regarded him as a fellow traveler. The corruption of the government and the tyranny of the rich. The "clowns" witnessed in the streets and on TV every night, but they didn't feel much righteous indignation. They even bowed their heads to avoid talking and endured silently. They only focused on developing their careers (but they had no real talent). , I hope my mother is safe (I don’t know I have been abused and brainwashed), I have a crush on the new neighbor (but I only imagined being close), and I hope to be idolized (betrayed by the other side pitifully), both being deceived and deceived, it is natural misfortune It is also an acquired tragedy.
However, the director is vacillating between the outbreak of pathology, the manipulation of fate, and the pressure of society, and it is not true, avoiding the importance and lightening it. The result is nothing but chaos, but the age is dim, and the audience is looking for a weak light in the dark. , Deliberately picking up symbols that can pile up meaning for dissemination, and unconsciously enjoying violent images to masturbate/inspire to create this so-called "classic".
How does this "clown" view the world? He tells the counselor that the other party "does not understand" his jokes and thoughts, just like we are lonely in an atomized society, there are always moments when our hearts are not understood and ignored by the system. Therefore, the audience hurts their feelings and recommends them. One of the problems with the film's "Golden Sentences" is that the "Joker" actually does not understand the world before him, and the director does not understand his heart.
all say that the director refers to copying Martin Scorsese's masterpieces, but in Taxi Driver (1976), although the protagonist is not in the world, he is sincere from beginning to end. He asked his dream lover to watch porn in a small theater, and confessed his habits, hobbies, and long-term lonely lifestyle to others. He didn't think there was anything wrong with this, and was pitifully cast aside by the woman. In fact, he might not be totally wrong. Knowing that this move is morally or interpersonal unreasonable, but he only sincerely hopes to give his true self to the one he loves. Here, Scorsese puts the protagonist’s thoughts and personality to be true, simple, fragile, and partial. It is very thorough.
In "The Clown", the protagonist goes to listen to Dong laughed, excerpts the notes pretentiously, and sneered to himself that it turns out that meaty jokes are the winning method:
1. He should have been a clown for some time since his debut, and his age is also Not small (the visual inspection is bigger than the "taxi driver" in the play), do you now know that pornographic jokes are the most popular? He is so ignorant of this industry, it is unlikely that it is because of trauma and amnesia (that was abused as a child), and there is no evidence of the influence of mental illness, only the screenwriter's carelessness.
2. He seems to despise salty and wet themes, and may be obsessed with "sex" (not like that, at least he would break into the neighbor's house to court in his imagination, and he was only passive when he saw a lady on the subway being molested by a sluggish man Protested, did not act bravely), but it also means that he has a plan for the content of the performance in his mind, and that is not the same as a general comedy performance or a laugh. So what does "Joker" hope to perform? Why does he want to be a clown?
"Joker" wants to be a clown, but he has never been pleased because it makes people happy or laughed. Even if he makes faces to a little girl on the bus for the first time, it is just a natural desire for amusement that everyone has. There is no special ideal for this. The clown's various professional skills or body art are not his objects of appreciation and pursuit of goals.
"Clown" has no father, lost maternal love, and cannot make friends. Does he want to gain recognition and attention from others through clown performance? But he is not like Scorsese’s "Taxi Driver" or "King of Comedy". Even though his thoughts and emotions are quite complex and chaotic, he still feels that he has strong intentions, including his views on politics and society. , Has not been expressed; the "Joker"’s Dong Du laughed (and imagined his idol’s praise on the show and expressed his thoughts to the audience), but repeated his life (and a distorted version of being deceived), thinking Everyone will give applause after listening.
Yes, "applause" is what he really asks for. He likes to be surrounded, just like inThe hospital is generally welcomed by children, but sadly he didn’t know that he could never get real applause. It was not because he had no chance or talent (though he did not reach the level of professional clown or emcee), but he always admired His applause is not real from his own place. He loves watching musicals and watching variety shows live on TV every night. Half of the laughter behind the applause is "artificial" and "false" post-production effects, even if he In the Grand Theater, I saw the rich and powerful because of Charlie Chaplin's burlesque in "Modern Times" (1936), or heard the audience in the bar laughed at the nucleus jokes of the performers on stage. Cheers loudly, probably half of them are arty and atmosphere.
In other words, the laughter and applause that the "clown" longs for has always existed only on the screen, through the glass or the stage, before it can be received. At the end of the movie, he finally received applause from the crowd, but that was not because he did his job as a clown, but because he was pushed into the role of "clown" for no reason, and became a symbol of resistance (but the director showed only the side of destroying the riot).
"Joker" has no ideals for acting, and no extraordinary talents, and even has a fragmented and naive view of life and society. His final round of criticism of the corrupt system in front of the TV set is not like the cry of the compelling system in "Doctor's Story" (The Hospital, 1971) or "Network, 1976". It is the long-deployed performance of reciting manuscripts to express the injustice directly, and the material for the manuscript may also come from street protesters, radio and newspapers, rather than personal unique analysis.
"Clown" is really spontaneous and self-enjoying. It is not involuntary laughter (half of it is hese, half of pathology), but dances and swings at its own beat, which mimics the childhood memories of different performers on the screen. Complex, it may also be the only way he can enjoy being alone and express his feelings the most (he may also have congenital problems with dyslexia and hyperactivity), because in the movie he dances alone again and again; "Joker "When I was a clown in front of people, I never felt comfortable like that.
put it this way, the best possible destination for "clowns" can be imagined as joining the dance troupe since childhood, sweating together with mentor and companions, making up for the regret of having no father and no friends, and playing true hobbies and strengths instead of because For all kinds of tragic reasons, he can only play as a professional clown who doesn't know his essence alone, and pursues the impossible applause like a donkey chasing a carrot. But the final scene has become a symbol of resistance, can he dance solo with pleasure in the future? It's impossible, he can only continue to kill people-yes, besides the yellow joke, he found the other extreme of cuteness and excitement, that is violence. Even if no one "watches", he can only continue to use violence for his pleasure and career; however, this is contrary to the fact that he said that the psychological counselor did not understand his own section, in fact, he just covered the emptiness of the script with clever dialogue. Means, the director has nothing to give the "clown" inner essence at all. Director
"misunderstood" the inner world of this "clown", conflating his primitive instincts for dancing, the twisted desire to be a clown, and the empty need for applause. He gave him a pistol and accidentally killed someone (he had a total of Killing six people, although each has evil deeds, it is hard to say that the crime should be sentenced to death), and stepped on a bloody road of no return, showing that the last essence of the "clown" is the pleasure of killing and the vanity of being surrounded. This is not an arrangement of fate, but a malicious broadcast by the director. Its behavior is no different from that of the "clown" sluggish fat man-just as the director repeatedly used slow motion to boast about the dance of the "clown", thinking that this would show its pain. The sympathy and sympathy of the audience was received, but the objective result was that the "clown" was set up to watch the singing and dancing performance through the glass, while the audience was placed in a position to watch the "clown" perform solo through the glass, the inner face of the "clown" As a result, it is "double" distorted. Unconscious audiences will find the atmosphere of the film extremely weird (some high school students of mine say that they can't read the film), and sober audiences will watch it particularly annoying. The last film of
, which was equally well-made and poorly intentioned, can be counted in "Black Swan" (Black Swan, 2010). The stair steps and blood-stained lips of "Joker" are just as long as the back of "Black Swan". The Dark Wings that came out are all designs that have misunderstood the sick/compressed and inserted them forcibly, adding fantasy to the real virtual image, rather than trying to be realistic in the fiction. The artificial applause heard through the glass by "Joker" is not realYes, the praise the director received through the glass will eventually prove to be a false fire.
Many people have pointed out that the "Joker" in this movie is not necessarily the one who is frightening because of Batman's two sides and lifelong opponents. In addition to the wrong age setting, it is also because of the "Joker". Thoughts and actions are externally infused and passively spawned, without the knowledge, wisdom, motivation and action ability to become the ultimate villain "Agent of Chaos". He is just a poor little person, not a supervillain. To become a superhero and super villain, you are someone who has experienced extraordinary events, but it is often enough. Just as Batman witnessed the killing of his parents and Spiderman indirectly killed his uncle, it is not that the rest of life has no influence on this, but a Zong’s most shocking event, the greater the drama, the more profound the justice/evil backlash triggered. If you need to film the continuous awakening/falling process for two or three hours, it will be easy to stack up and build a house, and nothing will happen.
In my mind, the best-written super villain is born, one is the clown of Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" (The Dark Knight, 2008), that is chaos without cause, The nameless chaos does not need to explain the cause (this version of the clown can also ridicule the new birth story at any time), but it is more terrifying, more symbolic, and it is the irrational nightmare of the modern rational society; the first is Tim ·The Penguin of Tim Burton's "Batman Returns" (1992) only needs an opening sequence and a short interim memory to explain the background of the character clearly, even if it is ridiculed as shallow Cartoonized Freudian interpretation. However, Tim Burton at the peak of the time made memorable with the stunning black images. Later, the penguin and the cooperation and mutual rebellion of different characters also showed the marginal people. love and hate. The two are conceptualized and the other is fairy tale, and they are reasonable, and they are not like today's "clowns" from the spirit of the original role.
Crazy laughter is the most classic characterization of the clown, but the director even eliminates the meaning of emptiness and ignorance. Sitting really is a sign of mental illness, so why take a picture of Batman’s clown? It is better to create another character by yourself All right. I remember the manga "ONE PIECE" said that the pirate snake uses biochemical weapons to force villagers to obey. This drug called "SMILE" will make people lose all the ability to express emotions, whether it is crying or pain. I can't help but turn into a big laugh. When you see the crowd laugh, you are actually crying when you hear the crowd. This kind of "laugh" fable is even more powerful than "Joker."
"The Clown" was filmed in the 1980s, but it didn't explain the specific political or historical events as the background. Instead, it wanted to use the horror of the spirit to fear the story of the lost heart, wasting the possibility of digging for nothing; see you later Until some theaters are showing "Blow Out" (Blow Out, 1981), that is the truly outstanding political mystery film. Well, the director probably wants to be the Brian De Palma (Brian De Palma) he is today. However, his eyes are high and his hands are low and he cannot become a master. However, the situation dictates that he rises to the top. The same is filming Arthur, he is better than "Arthur" ( Arthur, 1981)'s "a piece of director" Steve Gordon (Steve Gordon) is much luckier. This is the real joke.
