Not having a spoiler alert would be no laughing matter.
Show notes:
-Apologies for the mic handling noises at the very beginning. They subside.
-The tone
-Joaquin Phoenix
-The pace
-Mental illness
-USA Today article - https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2019/10/23/what-joker-movie-gets-right-wrong-about-mental-illness-violence/3978028002/
-Link between mental illness and violent behavior (there isn’t one)
-People with mental illness are ten times as likely to be victims of violent crime
-Horror movies, nuance, and “crazy” character development
-Representation of someone with mental illness
-Sympathy for Arthur and how it relates to Breaking Bad
-We’re all in this together
-It’s still a work of fiction
-Pseudobulbar affect
-Taxi Driver and King of Comedy
-New York in the 1970s
-Social Services being cut
-Sophie
-Batman
-Thomas Wayne
-Joaquin Phoenix’s performance
-The other Jokers
-If I was going to play the Joker
-Production and design
-Nitpicking
-It sits with you
-One more nitpick
-No hero
-What I like about movies
-Plugs!
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