Imagine you laugh and somehow you only wheeze, constrained noise with a hint of tears, for you it might be sadness, for him, it was unhinged laughter and deranged happiness.
There is a bit of unhinged anger and deranged disappointment for the movie, where for the fans it should have been a tragic tale of a victim who no longer belongs to reality OR imagination, is stuck on the verge of both, it was launched as a musical. There is a question, but there is a very obvious answer, the DUALITY of Joker.
The real and the imaginative version of his own life.
To lose ourselves in the musical let’s remind ourselves just how tranced we were by the tragedy of the first, the real story, the reason of Arthur and the definition of Joker.
“You were born to make people happy Arthur.” Happy, he was called happy, in the voice of Penny, just recall the word—HAPPY. An entertainer, a comedian, a joker, someone who was thrilled by his job at a place called ‘ha-ha’s’? A person whose laughter, instead of being infectious, was a disorder, or maybe this thought of having a disorder was a disorder—this person—lived to be an entertainer? Dreamed of being a comedian? In lots of ways, he was. He always will be a comedian, a kind who laughed at slaughter, a kind who enjoyed lifelessness, a kind who joked about the laughter that was a chilling cry.
The musical was another parallel, drawn by him, by you and by the makers, he loved to dance, every time, in the chaos of his real life, he transported to a world of music and his body certainly did not lie, it only swayed. It gave him joy, it drove him away from something, he murdered those five and did justice to a part of himself, as a lesson to the system—and—celebrated it?
“Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?” It’s like a mirror, an audible mirror, “Is it just me or is it getting crazier IN HERE?”
“I think I felt better when I was locked up in the hospital.” He certainly did, the observation room looked as white as a Swan’s feather as compared to his ravenous life.
The tragedy didn’t end all that tragically as compared to the thoughts we had before the first movie ended, but it still wasn’t a happy ending, he was still the abused, tortured, ruin of a man.
The second movie, a hated piece of non-art as per the viewers, started with a little animation of ‘JOKER IN- ME AND MY SHADOW’, showing his own shadow as a separate part of him, how did the question even arise? If the second movie would have been as much of a misfortune, it would have left Arthur as a dead man again, he created a world, where he found happiness and somehow—that’s bad?
Sing Hallelujah, come on get happy
Get ready for the judgement day
The sun is shining, come on get happy
He did get happy?
Finally, a real thrill, finally, the real laugh, FINALLY, some love…
This musical is practically a surgical separation of Arthur and Joker, Fleck by Fleck. A line was being drawn physically between the person who said “I hope my death makes more sense than my life.” And the person who lived to say “at that time death made more sense and now…” and now he thinks differently, he wants to think differently.
He sang about love in the interview, somehow the line was now distinct and it didn’t take any time to smudge itself into another parallel of a Harley and Joker show.
He thought he was fighting for love, but really, he was actually giving up, for LOVE. His love- death.
I will leave a son
In my heaven on Earth
He lied for an escape and in return he was left behind for the lie. He wanted to get rid of the madness and he did not realise, he was only wanted for the madness, madness by her and sensationalism by others. He left a son, to take his place. The killer gave him what he deserved. PEACE. He knew the abuse and the bullying would never stop and he couldn’t wait for the end anymore.
There was only a fleck of Joker in Arthur, there was Joker OR Arthur, one was the face and the another was the façade and when he lost her, he was happy to leave a fleck behind.
Imagine Arthur inside a universe that is the mind of Joker, as a character, a representation and suddenly the music gives him sense, meaning and desire.
The drama is the LITERAL meaning of JOKER.
THE MIND OF ARTHUR.