Sunday, October 6, 2019
No Kidding: ‘Joker’ Is a Madman’s Indictment of Life
Even before its release, a tempest of arguments have surrounded “Joker.” Would the movie cause violence by glorifying the story of how an everyman became a killer and Batman’s greatest nemesis?
On one side, some psychologists argue that the movie’s character study will educate society about mental illness.
Writing for Psychology Today, neuroscientist Bobby Azarian says the comic book character Arthur Fleck turns into a killer and villain called the Joker only “after he is bullied, beaten, and humiliated by others.”
Writing for Deseret News, professor of pop culture Kendall Phillips disagrees: “Once you start getting into the head of, you know, the sociopath, the anti-social person, the revolutionary, that’s when we suddenly think that this image of violence can be inspiring to the wrong kind of people.”
Both these views agree on a central point: “Joker” represents the world as someone who commits a mass shooting might see it.
The storyline differs from previous films in the Batman canon because it paints the universe–at least the DC Comics universe–with the leprous white of the clown’s makeup.
The R-rated movie’s first principle is that nothing good can ever happen to Arthur Fleck, brilliantly played by Joaquin Phoenix. As Fleck attempts to brighten people’s lives as a clown, everyone responds with wooden-cutout rejection.
If he teases a kid, the mom angrily tells him to leave. If he performs on the street, every passerby makes snide remarks to him in a rough New York accent. “’Ey, Clown, you ain’t even that funny! Haw, haw, haw! How’s that?”
Fleck gets mugged and his boss won’t believe him or notice the Jackson Pollock painting of bruises covering his body. TV comedians make fun of him.
If there had been a scene with a pet shop, all the puppies would bite his fingers with all the cruelty in their pint-sized hearts. The list goes on.
No one in Gotham City, from affluent swells to street thugs, has anything better to do than beat up Fleck.
It’s the same monomaniacal lie all lunatics tell themselves, that the whole world lives only to spite them and never does anything else.
Director Todd Phillips presents this vision of the world in its entirety without an iota of criticism
In Fleck’s deterministic march into murder, we see how little Phillips believes in individual agency and choice. Fleck’s not responsible, it’s all the world’s fault. He doesn’t even ask for his own gun; he’s given one by a friend who wants him to be safe from muggers.
The scene nods stupidly to gun control, too, with Fleck attempting to reject the gun because he is mentally ill and it’s against the law.
“If only the Joker hadn’t been given a gun,” pundits will sigh. “His ravening malice against the entire world would never have been let loose without the friend-with-a-suspicious-brown-paper-bag loophole.”
In the whole “Joker” movie, poised to break box office records over its opening weekend, Fleck receives just one choice: Will he destroy the world by...
REPORT: Pelosi Considering Pulling Plug On Impeachment Dumpster Fire?
Democrats are a failed political without any ideas or agenda beyond their ongoing hatred of President Trump and his remarkably successful America-First agenda.
Now, the party and its floundering leadership are looking at a rising tide of support for the president as more and more details emerge about what appears to have been a badly botched attempt to use impeachment for nothing more than shameless political gain. From Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff being caught lying multiple times to a so-called “whistleblower” exposed as a CIA Deep State operative, the entire thing has been an embarrassing sham for Democrats that threatens to further weaken and destabilize the party from all sides.
Via Fox News:
Another day, another scandal that’s sure to trigger the Trump administration’s downfall—if only the American people would be less picky about what the definition of the word “evidence” is.
The Ukraine Call Transcript. The Whistleblower Complaint. The Impeachment Inquiry. The pieces of this latest impeachment jigsaw have reached mythic status, bolstered by frenzied reporting, and insistence on the part of Democrats and advocates that this time, they’ve got the president right where they want him.
Even before we saw the transcript of President Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Democrats and their friends in the media were already imploring the American people to accept as fact that the president had betrayed the nation’s trust by asking for foreign help in undermining the 2020 elections.
After the White House released the declassified transcript, the game changed. (It was a swift move by President Trump that caught Democrats flat-footed and blew a MAGA-sized hole through their far-left narrative that the president had done something wrong by trying to get to the bottom of what is now widely agreed to be potentially very serious Obama-era corruption on a global scale.)
Realizing there was no illicit request—and thus, no grounds for impeachment—leftists quickly turned their focus toward the intelligence community’s “whistleblower.”
It should have been an easy win. The anonymous employee’s detailed complaint suggested that the contents of the transcript had triggered alarm within the intelligence community.
Unfortunately for the pro-impeachment crowd, the American people remained skeptical that the transcript revealed more than run-of-the-mill diplomacy. The narrative foundered, and the chess pieces moved once more. This time, the smoking gun was guaranteed to be found buried deep within a national security server housing call records with foreign leaders.
If you can’t impeach for the crime, goes their argument, impeach for the cover-up!
What will happen, you ask, when this new revelation inevitably fizzles out? Democrats and their friends in the media will haul the goalposts down to...
Is Supreme Court Justice John Roberts Compromised?
He changed his mind on this last minute.
Approved Obamacare as a tax last minute.
Whenever the Left needs a win, he gives it to them...
Two Illegal Aliens Convicted of Assisting Illegal Alien who Murdered Officer Ronil Singh on Christmas Night
California police officer Ronil Singh, a legal immigrant from Fiji, was murdered on Christmas night by an illegal alien after spending the holiday with his wife and 5-month-old son.
Illegal alien Gustavo Perez Arriaga was arrested near Bakersfield, California in late December about 280 miles southeast of Newman, California. Arriaga gunned down legal immigrant officer Cpl. Ronil Singh on Christmas day.
Cpl. Ronil Singh leaves a wife and 5-month-old son.
Illegal immigrant Gustavo Perez Arriaga was arrested today in California for killing police officer Ronil Singh on Christmas. Ronil did everything right. He represented the beauty of legal immigration while his illegal killer is an example of why we need a wall & border security.
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Journalist Pedophile With Twitter Name Of @DrPizza Gets Arrested For Soliciting Children Online - You Can't Make This Shit Up...
Reality Check: Is #Pizzagate "Fake News" or Has It Just Not Been Officially Investigated?
Here Is The Key To Reading Clinton Staffer Emails - Pedophile Coded Message Translater
A federal complaint alleges that Bright sought to molest a 7- and 9-year-old and met with an undercover agent for this purpose, at which point he was arrested. It also states that Bright claimed to be in a sexual relationship with an 11-year-old. He is currently being held without bail.
According to the complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, an undercover FBI special agent made contact with Bright on KinkD, a social media fetish platform, on April 18.
Bright, using the handle “randomanon,” had responded to a message the agent posted a day prior in which she purported to be a mother seeking to connect with people who could teach her children about “birds and the bees.”
The 90 Miles Mystery Video: Nyctophilia Edition #69
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The 90 Miles Mystery Box: Episode #766
You have come across a mystery box. But what is inside?
It could be literally anything from the serene to the horrific,
from the beautiful to the repugnant,
from the mysterious to the familiar.
If you decide to open it, you could be disappointed,
you could be inspired, you could be appalled.
This is not for the faint of heart or the easily offended.
You have been warned.
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