It doesn't even make sense chronologically because Bruce is a little kid and Joaquin Phoenix is in his 40s
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It tries to have it both ways, he snaps both because of his intolerable life that would make anyone snap AND because of his deluded entitlement toward a better life that couldn't ever be true (OR COULD IT)
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Arthur's downfall is overdetermined The movie is salivating so hard at watching him become the Joker that it arranges absolutely everything in his life to make becoming the Joker inevitable It totally fails to make the point "Anyone could snap if they had one bad day"
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he does also imagine he has a girlfriend during multiple protracted sequences
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The sheer degree to which this movie trades in unreliable narrator tricks is tiresome to me at my age and undermines any point the movie could be trying to make
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