The movie “Joker'' has always been a trap for the untouchable caste of the left.
When I saw the first movie trailer in 2019, I immediately turned it down. While many people were praising it, I was still burnt out on The Last Jedi. At that point I had moved away from the mainstream, so now I only go to the cinema when my family wants to go out.
But I wonder if glorifying these villains is a product of cultural corruption. Why don't we have unabashed love for heroes and hatred for villains?
Now, I didn't ignore “Joker” to make my point. I think I was still in high school at the time. I didn't like the idea of exploring the Joker as a mentally ill loser.
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To me, this character was more than just Rand who decided to wear clown makeup on a bad day. He does everything to assure you that's not the case, but I always saw it as an illusion, even if the writers believed it.
Just because an ordinary person loses his temper doesn't make him a criminal mastermind who can rob banks or fight with billionaire detectives with impunity. No, the Joker I knew was a whirlwind, a devastating force of nature that appeared out of nowhere and completely destroyed chaos. He was the devil, literal or not, conjured up by the excesses of a corrupt culture. His insistence on being a normal guy only served to confuse and break the characters' heads.
However, the face of evil is not so easy to understand. he was always more than that, An almost supernatural entity that our materialistic culture could only explain as a vat of strange chemicals.
Just seeing him on screen as a normal beaten down guy rather than a trickster demon was enough to deter me from watching it completely.
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But it turned out to be a good thing. Because that meant I wasn't invested in Joker: Folie à Deux when it was released.
The backlash against this film is part of an incendiary undercurrent that I've been aware of for some time.
First of all, everyone knew from the time it was announced that this movie was intentionally bad. Just the idea of turning it into a musical made it clear that the creators weren't making this for the fans. It's a completely hostile movie to the audience.
But that's not what I'm interested in.
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Tell me, what does it mean if the Joker gets raped and humiliated? Please be honest. This guy is a psychopath, and besides, why should anyone study the character of a villain? Does he have any heroic qualities that make you empathize with him or want to understand him? Do you have it?
people don't understand this I am obsessed with the true anatomy of evil. And beyond that, I'm sure you can find plenty of worse things that happened to him in the comics. I think at some point he got his own The skin on my face peeled off Or something. Why is this different?
But we all know it's different. We all instinctively know that this is an attack on the fans, and more importantly, everyone on the right who thought they saw something in the character. I am. After all, this particular incarnation was supposed to be the most relatable. And I think it was intended to capitalize on this fascination that Western culture has with psychopaths, especially psychopaths with a “code.”
Why are people so fascinated by these villains? You would think they would cause an instinctive revulsion, or at least disgust. They are thoroughly immoral people who do terrible things, and yet we can't get enough of them. We can't get enough of villains who have a point and a valid critique of the West deep down.
cultural corruption
Part of what makes the Joker so appealing is that it makes us question what it means to be a truly good person. Patrick Bateman is trying to find the real thing beneath the shallowness of his life. Anton Chigurh is a little more difficult to work with, but there is an element in him that brings the savagery and primitive violence back to the tamed West. And we can keep going. This is not an unusual metaphor.
But I wonder if glorifying these villains is a product of cultural corruption. Why don't we have unabashed love for heroes and hatred for villains? Why are villains often more charismatic and primal than protagonists? Why is good associated with lameness and evil with vitality?
I'd wager that the right tends to obsess over these numbers because they intuitively feel that something is terribly wrong. The heroes of mainstream stories aren't real heroes, and the villains are scary, but at least they show something more true.
Deep down, the Joker is absolutely right that humans are not the moral paragons they want to be, and that they have no basis to prevent utter chaos when hypocrisy surfaces.
So should we pick up the Joker frame? Has he always been a model for the right? Is he someone we should follow?
Absolutely not.
“How about magic tricks?”
One of the left's favorite tricks is to inject psychopaths and deranged lunatics with right-wing ideas and aesthetics. When right-wingers accept that the character has a point, they become associated with the character's evil. This prevents the noble vision of the right from fully manifesting and distracts people with digital clown games.
No matter what Joker says about the plight of incels, the corruption of society, etc., his flaws outweigh any message. Not just mentally unstable. He's a pathetic loser with no moral compass, and his solution to decline is to accelerate it.
In other words, he villain. he is real bad guy.
And if a cynical interpretation prevails, if the mainstream receives a different message than the author intended, they have one last trump card at their disposal.
controlled operation
Joker is completely fictional. That means they can do whatever they want to him, and more importantly, he Do whatever they want. He controls the opposition and the left will be willing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure him. stay Like that.
Leftists don't play for money. It will be played as a message. And that message is:
you are the bad guy And lol, you got gang raped.
The lesson learned is to never invest in modern media. Memes and edgy takes are different, but we're not obsessed with them.
The left never creates true right-wing heroes, only right-wing villains. Never adopt an image unless it's truly worth emulating. And most importantly, never get attached to enemy-controlled caricatures.
Again, I'm not saying don't engage in meme wars or ironic interpretations. Just don't get attached to them as long as the left can turn them into weapons against you.
The appropriate response is to just shrug and leave it alone. That culture is completely hostile to you, and your ability to remain indifferent is the ultimate weapon against those who basely desire your anger.
