Now that the dust has settled, why they felt the need to sabotage this film's legacy on purpose? It couldn't have been accidental. It was deliberate. What, exactly, were they afraid of? At times it plays less like a story and more like a warning "this is what happens if you resist, so stay quiet and obedient or else we will use our power to destroy and emasculate you?" That message feels unmistakably aimed at young men, to caution them back into line.
>>523875569he just didn't want to make a sequel
>>523875569The message of the film was actually pretty fucking obvious and it wasn't any of this schizo "DA JOOZ are making movies just to fuck with us 5,000 autists on a basketweaving forum!!!" bullshit.The point is that Arthur's fans, both in the narrative and in the audience, don't actually care about him. They care about Joker. But he isn't actually the Joker, he isn't a monster or a villain. He's a mentally ill guy who just got pushed too far. But the audience wants him to become that monster because that's cool and entertaining. His fans, both in the movie and the audience, got pissed off when Arthur tries to redeem himself, take responsibility for his actions, and turn over a new leaf. Because all these chuds that pretended to identify with him didn't actually identify with him, they projected themselves onto him and used him for their own purposes. He was never supposed to be some badass figure. He's just a good-hearted guy who snapped.
