Joker. Movie review.

Hey everybody, I am writing this because a second movie that continues the Joker story is coming out soon.               

     I enjoyed The Joker because I thought it did a decent job of exploring the mental makeup of a person with what I believe to be schizophrenia. It took me a while to realize that he was suffering. I thought that it was multiple personality disorder. But when I was filming a second time, I realized it was schizophrenia.  The movie flips between reality and what the character perceives.                    This film shows how difficult it is for people with mental illness to fit into society.                                                          The movie starts with the person who becomes the Joker trying to get a refill on antipsychotic medication, and when he cannot obtain this refill, the film shows the Joker’s swift mental decline.                        Although the character makes a brilliant effort to fit in, he feels he cannot succeed.                                                We are also reminded that the man who becomes the first Joker takes care of his mother, a woman who is even more mentally disconnected from reality than he is. His decline begins when he loses a job because one of his coworkers gives him a gun for protection, and it slips out of his clown costume, a situation in which he is swiftly punished. I do not blame his workplace for doing this. Gun are even more dangerous in the hands of unstable individuals. Any accidental discharge of a firearm could kill someone. This city is loosely based on New York in the 1920’s. The period is always fluid. Joker likes to go out after his job. He decides to try an open mic night at a comedy club and perceives himself as hilarious. Although, in reality, none of his jokes made sense.                            On his way home, he is accosted by three young men in expensive business suits. Although he laughs at them, he is terrified for his life, and he ends up shooting them and running away.                                                                              It has to be the end when the Joker.              He makes an impassioned speech about the average person being invisible, originating from a twisted worldview.      Still, he makes a valid point because, let us face it, someone may be attractive and unbelievably intelligent or exceptionally skilled.  But,  for the majority of us, the disabled, the mentally ill, etc., we are invisible unless it is some pointless awareness month.

The most fantastic part about the movie is that it makes it easy to identify with the severely mentally ill patient much more than the average citizenof Gotham City. Just like the majority of people around the world do not notice people unless they are causing a mass killing of people or they have a severe mental breakdown. I recommend anyone who has not seen this film get out before Joker 2 comes out on October 4, 2024; this Joker inspires the man who will become Batman's Joker. You can check this movie out on HBO Max