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Originally Posted by tabs
Batman meets the King Of Comedy and Taxi Driver. With a good measure of V for Vendetta thrown in. Of course Deniro is in KOF and TD also.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Comedy_(film)
I can see why they are afraid this movie will set off an apocalyptic scenario...the social commentary is stunning.
Is the Joker really Donald Trump?
You have similar civil chaos going on right now in Hong Kong.
This is the story of a little guy that gets pushed around and is shuffled off and discarded by the system. Where society itself is economically deteriorating and people are getting tense under the pressure. So finally the Schmoe can't take it anymore and snaps killing his bully oppressors who happen to be swells. This causes a populist street uprising (Similar to ANTIFA) where people are mad as he11 and won't take anymore from the wealthy elites who are telling em to eat cake. .
Sound familiar...
This movie brought in 247M world wide this weekend...97M USA.. I suspect this is gong to be monster huge...It is going to resonate...
Let us see what it does second weekend...
The movie also addresses the bending of perceptions and what is unreal or fake and what is reality? At the end you really do not know, except for the bloody foot prints and the comedy of being chased. |
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=joker2019.htm
SIX HUNDRED NINETEEN MILLION (619) world wide in the 16 days since it release on Oct 4th 2019...
Remember this is not Gone With The WInd, Titanic, Avatar, Aliens, Star Wars...etc...escapism this is deeply disturbing emotionally. A mood piece...that takes dealing with emotionally and intellectually. This is not a fun movie..