Mr. Tree from "Hello! Mr. Tree" and Arthur the clown of "Joker" are two special characters. Although the two characters are in rural northeast China and the other in the famous Gotham City in the United States, the two people's encounters seem to have many similarities.
First, he also came from the bottom of society and was bullied everywhere
Mr. Shu was born in a run-down rural area in northeast China, where his father had long since died, leaving only his mother and brother. Mr. Tree, who was born in an ordinary rural area, was the object of ridicule in the village, staring at people all day long, and was looked down upon everywhere. Because of his cowardly personality, Mr. Shu was bullied everywhere, the land in his home was robbed, and he was forced to kneel by the other party after a few words of nagging.
Arthur the Clown was born in Gotham City, USA, and is also a poor man at the bottom of society, with a more miserable birth and a paranoid adoptive mother. At first, Arthur the Clown had a happy time with his adoptive mother, when he did not know that the other party was the adoptive mother. Like Mr. Tree, Arthur the Clown is a poor creature who is bullied everywhere. Unlike Brother Tree, who was most threatened and did not really get beaten, in the violent United States, The Clown Arthur suffered a lot of flesh and skin.
Second, the work is not going well, and both are unemployed
Mr. Shu used to work in an auto repair shop, and then he was fired for a mistake, and then he went to the city to mix with his childhood friends, and was assigned to work as a cleaner, doing all the work at the bottom, and he couldn't make a few dollars from exhaustion.
Arthur the Clown is a clown actor who has worked hard and can't make a few dollars, and was later fired for some reasons, which made him worse off when the economy was not generous.
Third, they are all delusional, and they cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality
Mr. Shu has a serious mental illness, which should be similar to paranoia or the like, and often sees his dead brother and father, because he is in a remote rural area and has not been scientifically treated, and he himself estimates that he does not feel that he is sick.
Arthur the Clown also has mental illness, always laughs for no reason, and often goes to see a psychiatrist, although the psychiatrist is only perfunctory. Like Mr. Tree, Arthur the Clown has paranoia and is always unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy.
Fourth, love and stay with the imaginary lover
Mr. Tree's object is a deaf-mute person, who is deaf-mute but still beautiful. In the end, the two married, although Mr. Tree was already crazy at that time. Because of paranoia, no one can tell whether Mr. Tree's love is true or false, and no one can say which are true and which are fantasies.
Although Arthur the Clown is tall and tall, his love life is blank until he meets a black girl. In his fantasies, he and the black sister sweetly deal with the object. Compared with Mr. Tree's delusions, Arthur the Clown seems to have a more serious illness, directly fantasizing about a person who has nothing to do with him as a close lover.
Fifth, both have dreams to support themselves
The movie does not clearly state what Mr. Tree's dream is, but it is not difficult to find out from the plot that Mr. Tree's dream should be a respected fortune teller. Later, in his own fantasy, Mr. Tree realized his dream.
Arthur the Clown's dream is to be a talk show actor, and he admires a talk show star, but this star uses arthur the clown's performance video as a mockery, which completely angers Arthur the clown.
In the first half, the life state of the two is the same, and one is more depressed than the other. Only later, Mr. Tree lived completely in the fantasy. In the fantasy, Mr. Tree, who had previously been forced to kneel down to the two pigs of the ground, took revenge for kneeling. Mr. Tree, who was originally looked down upon everywhere, was respected everywhere in his fantasies and was invited by a large local company to do an opening inspection.
Arthur the Clown woke up from his fantasy, took a pistol to eliminate the violence, killed three white-collar men who flirted with women on the subway, teased his talk show star in the studio, and became the spiritual idol of the people at the bottom, which triggered a series of events in Gotham City, and even the mayor lost his life.
Mr. Tree and the Joker, two delusional men, maybe the whole plot of the movie is all their fantasy, they didn't do anything, just had a dream at home.