Joker had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday. In the days since, the takes have been coming in hot. On Twitter, the reaction seems to fall into two camps: It’s either a near-perfect masterpiece, or it’s a dangerous manifesto for radical and lonely white men
who may look to Arthur Fleck’s deranged descent into the Joker of comic-book lore as heroic instead of villainous.
I think the answer to that question is no. Ultimately, Joker is a story that empathises with a violent sociopath. Fleck is a clown-by-hire and aspiring comedian living with his mother. The most ironic and tragic cruelty of his life is that he’s got a condition that causes him to laugh maniacally at inappropriate times. He is bullied and beat up — by a group of kids on the street, his coworkers, some rich suits on the subway — and the film uses these encounters to explain his murderous origins.
Unfortunately for women who write things on the internet, threats come to with the gig, particularly when the thing you are writing about is comic book movies. The fact that critics — mostly women — are facing the wrath of Joker fans who are already invoking the fanboy venom we’ve become accustomed to doesn’t surprise me. Unfortunately for women who write things on the internet, threats come to with the gig, particularly when the thing you are writing about is comic book movies. In Hagi’s case, being called a “reverse racist” is nothing new for critics of colour, especially women critics of colour. But it’s still infuriating.
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