Joker: A Contemporary Classic and Cultural Disturbance
Greetings one and all. I come to you today—or perhaps some day in the future and considering my track record with posting the latter seems more likely—with some thoughts on a movie. It is a film seemingly everyone from right to left has thoughts on, emphasis on left. But this won't get political, at least not from my own intent. If, let's face it when, this gets political it will be summoned from the copious articles released discussing and criticizing this film and the message it sends. Or sometimes its lack of a message, honestly critics can be ouroboros incarnate . There has never been a film so contentious in recent years that involves a clown, unless you want to call IT problematic because Pennywise has become a sexualized icon despite devouring children for a living? That was an egregious stretch but I won't edit it out. It is astonishing to see a psychological thrill of a film be branded as unavoidably toxic with the potential to inspire violence. It is difficult to
