04-16-2024, 08:00 PM
now I'm really sad I didn't make the joker baby thread I was going to make after seeing it on Friday, seeing this thread portray it as a crappy non-parody rather than what it is: outsider high school drama class art.
This post is going to have spoilers in it. I'm not marking them, skip this post if you don't want spoilers.
It was an incredibly powerful movie for me. I cried four times during it. Coming of age stories that are written by, made by, and starring people who can't act do not get shown in movie theaters. So many moments in their life were moments from mine. The monologuing. The bad haircut. The combination of furious indignation and complete detachment at the same time. Yes, it uses anti comedy as a framing mechanism and as material because being deliberately funny is hard. But it is undeniably a parody of the joker and harley and Batman and dc and all that. And it's goofy and dumb and incredibly serious and beautiful and ugly.
But you know what? It's the utter disrespect, OP. The main character of the movie was a youtuber who uploaded this for some reason. He said so over and over again. He tells the woman he's the joker, baby. Did you leave before he's the joker baby? Or did you sit on your phone the whole time? Your summary of this movie is like calling brokeback mountain a stupid story about cowboys who find mountains sexy. You have missed everything that made this movie meaningful, and you've done so in a particularly innocuous way with your 'taste' in 'quality'.
If you actually watched two minutes of a youtuber hamming it up in a goofy, weird, vulnerable, no budget way, and what you took from it was "terrible movie about a fat kid who likes the joker a bit too much", I feel so sad for you. I hope you don't tell any people you know what you thought of the movie.
This post is going to have spoilers in it. I'm not marking them, skip this post if you don't want spoilers.
It was an incredibly powerful movie for me. I cried four times during it. Coming of age stories that are written by, made by, and starring people who can't act do not get shown in movie theaters. So many moments in their life were moments from mine. The monologuing. The bad haircut. The combination of furious indignation and complete detachment at the same time. Yes, it uses anti comedy as a framing mechanism and as material because being deliberately funny is hard. But it is undeniably a parody of the joker and harley and Batman and dc and all that. And it's goofy and dumb and incredibly serious and beautiful and ugly.
But you know what? It's the utter disrespect, OP. The main character of the movie was a youtuber who uploaded this for some reason. He said so over and over again. He tells the woman he's the joker, baby. Did you leave before he's the joker baby? Or did you sit on your phone the whole time? Your summary of this movie is like calling brokeback mountain a stupid story about cowboys who find mountains sexy. You have missed everything that made this movie meaningful, and you've done so in a particularly innocuous way with your 'taste' in 'quality'.
If you actually watched two minutes of a youtuber hamming it up in a goofy, weird, vulnerable, no budget way, and what you took from it was "terrible movie about a fat kid who likes the joker a bit too much", I feel so sad for you. I hope you don't tell any people you know what you thought of the movie.
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