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tl;dr, joker 2 is a film about pretending to be a cat on the internet, and the moral of the story?

joker 2 is a film that only exists in a Society wherewhen the source material is forced into denial, victim-blamed, and sacrificed, because facing reality would make a lot of high-status, "elite members" of unmembered social worship reckon with their own acts of abuse, both suffered and performed.

joker 2 is a film about a Very Special Mommy Traumaboy, whose abusive maternal enmeshment society explicitly enabled, using humor as a manic-depressive coping mechanism & escaping into the delusion of "joker" the anti-hero, celebrated by society for killing their hallucinatory non-nuclear oppressors

in other words, arthur is a victim-on-strings, puppeted by Society(tm) into a coerced public playact of the Social Role of hero-villain, because to free him would be to confront the villainy implicit in the social structures institutionalized and reified by most peoples and their cultures

joker 2 was panned where joker 1 succeeded because joker 1 maintained the mask of the clown, allowing the audience to believe the illusion, while joker 2 makes explicit that "joker" is entirely arthur's hallucination--yet his hallucination becomes *hyperreal*, because the Reality TV audience IS Real

everyone, in the delusions of both fictional arthur and the irl archetype, seems unable to differentiate between the character of joker and the person playing the character of joker--ironically, they are the ones who *force* the delusion, because it is easier FOR THEM than facing the cover-up.

arthur's death is symbolic, because his false self--who believes the delusion that he is Guilty--DOES die, because the jury (when faced with the overwhelming evidence of his mental illness, his mother's abuse, and society's collective complicity) finds him Not Guilty & forces him confront reality

also consider that arthur is not experiencing time linearly, but rather, compartmentalizing painful realities into the joker character: the scene where harley interrupts the duet to shoot joker occurs both midway through the film AND at its finale--first, to arthur, then, to joker

or another: when arthur is thrown into "solitary confinement" and harley is "let into" his prison, where she and joker have an uncomfortable and awkward prolonged sex scene, is that *really* happening? or is arthur once again using joker's delusions as a convenient means of escaping overwhelm?

or another: did arthur have a real love affair with "sophie" or was she merely another one of the joker's victims? is she an actual embodied person, or a fiction conjured in his private diary to cope with his crippling, imprisoned solitude?

for an example of the audience's complicity, here's a question: how many killings did arthur commit? is it, a) 1, his mother, as joker confesses to the psychiatrist early in the film, b) 5, those arthur is being tried for killing as joker, c) 6, like arthur confesses in his "closing statement"?