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At the beginning of the film, Arthur Fleck is in front of the makeup mirror of the "Le Haha Company", and the director skillfully uses lighting and sets to present the famous comic book image, the Joker's most important opponent in life, Batman.
Personally, I think this arrangement is very clever, this version of "Joker" is essentially a film that discusses the psychology of crime, although borrowing dc comic imagery, it is actually to describe how people at the bottom of society struggle to survive in this materialistic world. To introduce this classic image here in an inadvertent way is to remind the audience that this film is completely different from the comic book movie you remember.
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The tv news in the film mentions the Gotham City sanitation strike several times, resulting in a large amount of municipal garbage not being cleaned up, followed by "super rats" witnessed by citizens, and we can faintly see this huge rat in the footage of the Waynes being shot and Arthur calling at the phone booth.
In fact, in the 1980s, both New York and Chicago (the two prototypes of Gotham City) had severe rat infestations, and there were even cases of rats biting elderly people living alone, so this is not an exaggeration of the film, how to control the flood of rats in the city at that time was indeed a real problem that politicians needed to face when campaigning.
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In fact, this film does not indicate the exact time when the story takes place, but from the people's costumes and the style of the cars on the street, it can be inferred that it probably happened in the 80s. And the newspaper appeared under the page reporting the clown's murder, and it can be speculated that the joker's story should have taken place in 1986.
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Whenever Arthur tried to act like a normal person, he always used his right hand as his main hand, such as when listening to talk show notes.
But when he shows his evil side, he switches to his left hand, such as when he records his true thoughts.
There were also three young men who shot and killed himself in the subway, using his left hand in several shots.
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When Arthur showed her notebook to the social worker, she noticed one of the sentences, "I want my death to be more meaningful than life." (Arthur wrote it with his left hand), but there is a passage above the sentence that records that Arthur once saw a man fall on the sidewalk and die, while passers-by ignored him.
He later told the story on Murray Franklin's talk show.
In addition, a closer look at his notes can find many spelling errors, such as writing "people" as "peeple", "happier" as "happyer" and so on. Although it can be read and understood, it can be seen that Arthur did not have a good education, which is indeed in line with his character background.
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Arthur's running posture is special, and it was Joaquin Phoenix's intention in creating the character, because Arthur had been playing a clown for the first half of his life, and the big toe shoes he wore during the performance had made him accustomed to walking and running like this.
But after Arthur became a real "clown", the walking and running postures were almost like two people, and he had to admire the actor's acting skills.
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Arthur practiced at home after receiving an invitation to come on a talk show from Murray Franklin, using a previously recorded talk show as an accompaniment.
The guest Murray Franklin introduces in this video is "Ethan Chase," a "famous actor, of course," a fiction from another comedy film by director Todd Phillips, "Due Date."
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At the end of the film, the Waynes are shot and killed by a thug wearing a clown mask in a small alley, and many people do not understand why They left the theater on foot as Thomas Wayne, in fact, in a previous shot, the extended version of Lincoln that the Wayne family has been burned and the driver is missing.
Moreover, only the Wayne family's car was burned, and combined with the reaction of the gunman before the Death of the Waynes, it is reasonable to judge that their death may have been a pre-planned action, at least not the work of some angry youth who was dissatisfied with the status quo.
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Arthur was taken away by Gotham City police after shooting Murray Franklin, but the license plate of the police car read "Industrial First" (a satire of "America First") rather than "Protect and Serve," suggesting that the city's police only cared about the rich and the taxes, and no longer cared about civilians.
Police car license plates in the United States are issued by each state, and usually more distinctive items or landmarks in each state will appear on the license plate.
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Finally, there are the most important details of the film, which even affect the tone of the entire film.
There is a scene in the film showing Arthur's mother receiving treatment at Arkham Asylum, and it is this scene that confirms that Penny Fleck suffers from schizophrenia and paranoia, and that she thinks that she has a love history with Thomas Wayne, which is actually a fantasy in her mind, so her claim that Arthur Fleck is Thomas's child is naturally nonsense, but is it really so?
Penny Fleck when she was young
According to the cast at the end of the film, the doctor who performed the psychological evaluation for Penny is named Benjamin Stoner. In the Batman series, Stoner is the chief physician of Arkham Asylum and a complete villain, and it is a bit of a joke that the director deliberately named the doctor after a villain.
Benjamin Stoner
In addition, during the confrontation between Arthur and Thomas Wayne in the bathroom, Thomas reveals to Arthur that he is actually an orphan adopted by Penny, but if you look closely at Penny's case records in Arthur's hand, you can see that the so-called adoption certificate looks much newer than the other documents in this document, suggesting that this adoption certificate may have been added later.
Finally, look at Penny Fleck's case, which mentions that the hospital had performed lobotomized on her.
The procedure was thought to treat some mental illnesses in the 1930s and 1940s, but it was always controversial, and many patients showed signs of dementia because they performed the procedure, and by the 1950s it had been gradually abandoned. That's why Penny didn't look old but behaved strangely, and ended up being hospitalized for the seizures caused by the surgery.
Arthur was born in the '50s, and Penny received psychotherapy at least in the '60s, but why would the hospital implement this already abandoned treatment on Penny? Combined with the above details, it seems to point to the fact that the director wants the audience to doubt Arthur's true life, in fact, the film does not reveal whether Penny is mentally ill at the end; Arthur Fleck is not the eldest son of the Wayne family.
It seems that the director wants to leave this suspense to the audience, I don't know how you see it, welcome to leave me a message, thanks for reading!
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