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Jan 3, 2024 · Shortly after killing Robert De Niro's Murray Franklin on live television in Joker's ending sequence, Arthur is arrested by the police, but as the chaos in Gotham swells from his actions, a stolen ambulance collides with his police car and renders him unconscious.
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Oct 8, 2019 · Here's the Real-Life Medical Condition Behind His Uncontrollable Laugh. The film, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Batman's archnemesis, offers a new twist on the character by taking inspiration from...
- What Happens at The End of Joker?
- A Literal Interpretation of Joker
- Joker's Unreliable Narrator
- Lingering Joker Questions
- A Third Option?
- So What Really Happened?
The snowball that is the ending begins to pick up speed when Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck gets a phone call from the Murray Franklin Show, the late night Tonight Show-style talk show hosted by Robert De Niro's character. He's Arthur's idol, so even though Franklin had used video of Arthur's lack of comedic skill as a punchline on the show, he agr...
The simplest way to explain Jokeris, of course, a straightforward reading of everything that we've seen. There are some problems with doing that, but we'll get there. In this reading, Arthur's killing of three Wall Street bankers begins a grass roots movement against the wealthy in Gotham City, which is happening in the background while Arthur goes...
The problem with reading Jokerin a straightforward fashion is Joker himself. Arthur Fleck has already proven himself, long before the end of the movie, to be an unreliable narrator. There are two aspects that draw us to this conclusion in the film. First, early in the movie, we see Arthur envision himself as a part of the Murray Franklin television...
Neither of these interpretations are entirely clear cut and both leave some questions worth considering. If we believe that everything we see here happened just as we see it, it leaves a pretty big question mark as to how Arthur Fleck ended up institutionalized. How he did he go from being rescued by literal Joker henchman to being in handcuffs in ...
Perhaps the real answer lies somewhere in between. The fact is that neither of these options is mutually exclusive. Perhaps the movie we just witnessed has all taken place inside Arthur Fleck's mind, but it's more memory than fantasy. The events could have all happened, but we're seeing them through the lens of a troubled man, and thus we're not se...
There are answers to these questions, but they're certainly not definitive answers. In the end, it seems clear that the point of Joker's ending is that it not be clear cut, so that fans can debate the topic. So, let's do that. What do you think? Did the events of Jokeras we see them really happen or was everything in Arthur's head? Was it some comb...
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Oct 11, 2019 · That means everything else presented in the film is real, right down to Joker killing Murray Franklin live on TV and Bruce Wayne becoming orphaned during the riots.
Oct 4, 2019 · From there onward, “Joker” at times blurs the line between gritty realism and fantasy, with certain moments and even entire story lines, such as Fleck’s budding romance with an empathetic...
- josh.rottenberg@latimes.com
- Staff Writer
Oct 2, 2019 · He thinks he’s taking revenge on an unjust world. This makes him look like an element of society we associate with senseless violence in real life: lonely, male and emotionally stunted.
Oct 20, 2019 · He discovers who he is — or who he can be — when he’s attacked in public, and instead of cowering and taking it (the way he usually would), a force within him decides that he has to fight back. On...
