• pjwestin@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    That’s the problem, it didn’t have a real message. It was aping Taxi Driver and King of Comedy, and it copied the aesthetics of those films very well, but it was all superficial. It’s a perfectly fine movie, but The Batman had deeper social commentary than Joker.

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      8 months ago

      Not sure why people expected hard hitting social commentary from The Joker

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        8 months ago

        Because it tried and failed to say something profound about mental illness while imitating one of the most celebrated directors in American cinema. Not sure why you’re pretending this was just another superhero blockbuster when it was clearly trying to be an Arthouse film