last night,
i decided to take a risk and watch joker 2.
the reviews slammed it so i went into it with pause.
for those two hours,
i put my phone on DND and paid attention…

…and I ended up really liking it.

it wasn’t bad to me like what the critics were saying.
the singing didn’t annoy me because it fit the context of the scenes.
it was basically used as a look into arthur fleck’s mind.
sure,
they could have gone a whole “joker/harley quinn” killing spree.
but i preferred the direction they went.

People wanted the origin story of Joker from the cartoons and movies.

imo,
this movie is the prequel to who made that joker.
arthur fleck,
the person,
doesn’t have what the joker we know has.

Arthur Fleck is a mentally ill man who disassociates to a character he created in his head to protect his inner child.

another thing that i loved in the movie is it touched on stan culture too.
harley quinn,
in this universe,
was just a stan of his.

in her own mental illness,
she propped him up because of all the events that happened in the first one.
like most stans,
he became larger than life and could do no wrong.
i won’t give it away but once arthur showed the real him:

They turned on him.

they only liked him because on the outside,
joker was who they aspired to be.
once he took the mask off,
they didn’t see him as the person they admired.

I dunno,
I look at things differently when I’m breaking them down.

i’d say give the movie a shot.
you may like it; you may hate it.
i enjoyed it and would watch it again.
like anything else,
go into it with an open mind and see what you think.

lowkey: i really liked the soundtracks from this movie too.