'Joker' toes fine line in portraying the making of a monster | By CNN's blowryontv
"Joker" might bring to mind a caped crusader, but it's another vigilante,"Taxi Driver's" Travis Bickle, who provides the movie's spiritual sire. Joaquin Phoenix's electric, disturbing performance is thus dogged by history and questions about the"why" of it all -- that is, a Joker without Batman -- an answer that isn't really in the cards.
There is a constituency eager to blame Hollywood for contributing to societal ills that includes plenty of dishonest brokers. That said, the Joker character and"Taxi Driver" both come with unwelcome asterisks -- the first in its association with the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Col., the latter in John Hinckley Jr.'s assassination attempt on President Reagan.
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