Female Film Critics 24/375
Ostensibly, this is the ultra-bleak origin story of DC Comics’ super-villain and Batman’s arch nemesis, known as the Joker. Saddled with a long familial history of insanity, which he shares with his deranged mother who tried to burn him alive as a child, troubled, tortured Arthur Fleck, who’s plagued with uncontrollable laughter, has endured years of social isolation and medical negligence.
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When a trio of sleazy stockbrokers accosts him on the subway, Arthur responds with an outburst of violence that gives him a newfound sense of power and turns him into a twisted symbol of revolution, setting him on course to become the nihilistic future nemesis of The Dark Knight.
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