Film Theory: The Joker Is Not Real (Joker 2019 Spoiler Free)

Joker seems to be his goal. His fantasies. That's why I think they are exactly that. Fantasies, delusions, hallucinations. If he were

real

ly the leader of this rebellion, would he be allowed to walk through the crowd with his clown makeup on? While everyone is protesting in one direction, would he be allowed to walk in the other direction? Consider this: All the signs in the crowd talk about capitalism in the working class. Pause the trailers and move frame by frame through them, and you can see that these protests are about workers' rights. That seems like the kind of message that Arthur Fleck, the Joker, would be the figurehead of?

Or is he just inserting himself into these protests as some kind of power fantasy? This scene of him kissing the girl he's trying to impress, that kind of confident behavior seems to come from a man as shy and timid as Arthur? I don't think so, I think this is all part of his hallucinations. The delusional world where he lives because of his mental illness. As he says in the final trailer: "All my life, I didn't know if it

real

ly existed." Let's face it, the comics industry is no stranger to misleading trailers. Heck, Marvel has turned digitally altering its trailers into something of a sport, giving us a two-eyed Thor in the "Ragnarok" trailer, a Mark Ruffalo 2D Hulk in the "Endgame" trailers, among dozens of other changes .

Remember, I even made a

theory

about where the Soul Stone was based entirely on digitally edited shots from "Infinity War." Yes, thanks Marvel! I won't forget that anytime soon! But showing fantasies straight from the movie is a brilliant way to divert fans. DC has even used this tactic before, showing an intimidating Superman in the "Batman vs. Superman" trailer, which actually comes from one of Batman's dream sequences. Since we know that the Joker will struggle with mental illness in this

film

, there is good reason to believe that he will not be completely grounded in reality. I think there's a good chance that whenever we see Arthur as the Joker in this new movie, he's just in his head.

A deception. We know there's a villain named Joker at some point, and that there's a clown-themed rebellion in Gotham, but it's about labor disputes. The trailers want us to believe that Arthur is the mastermind behind everything, which I'm not so sure about. Arthur Fleck just doesn't seem to be a social engineer like the Joker the trailers make him out to be. Arthur is a tragic dreamer like Rupert in "King of Comedy" before him. Men whose greatest achievements exist sadly within their own minds. Or who knows, he could be wrong. But according to some of the first reviews that came out literally while we were editing this video, "One of the strengths of 'Joker' is that anyone will be able to argue his point of view about what was real and what was imagined." It certainly seems like our

theory

could have predicted the punchline. *laughs* But hey, that's just a theory: a

film

theory!

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