(Phillips' Joker toys with this by giving us the multiple choice question of whether Arthur is actually Thomas Wayne's son or not But it wasn't big enough an ambiguity to make this point, because Phillips wanted him to be unambiguously a victim)
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I would've gone further and made the ambiguity be whether Fleck is out to avenge the death of his mother and girlfriend or whether he killed one or both of them himself (and whether the girlfriend was ever really his girlfriend)
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Anyway I think this theme is itself compelling, even if it's also obviously problematic It's the theme of The Man in the Glass Booth
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Is this man pretending to be a Holocaust survivor so he doesn't have to live with being a Nazi Or is pretending to be a Nazi so he doesn't have to live with being a survivor The ending implies it actually is the latter and asks you to imagine if that makes sense
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Which, you know Very loaded and controversial Inspired the DS9 episode "Duet", which was a less controversial but still very compelling take
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Can you expand on that DS9 episode? The title sounds familiar but the summary doesn't. Is it about Garrak?
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It's the one where they arrest a notorious Cardassian war criminal who was hiding under the identity of an ordinary mild-mannered civilian Only for Kira, who was initially pulling for his summary execution, to do some more digging and find out he *actually is* the civilian
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Who concocted this elaborate plan to *fake* the evidence that he was actually a Nazi war criminal living under a fake identity, so that he could be caught, tried and executed and make his life amount to something as a symbol
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It's elevated above being a simple morality tale about Kira learning that Cardies aren't all simplistically evil Because it has this disturbing thing about how the dude wasn't just acting out of altruism to expose Cardassian war crimes
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There were easier ways to do that He could've just defected to the Federation and, like, told them what he knew from when he worked at the camps But it wasn't *enough* He wanted to be punished, to be *important enough* to punish, to be *more* complicit and less pathetic
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GOD DAMNNNNNNN. TY, gonna have to watch it. That's the kind of thing that is REALLY difficult to perform. Shit.
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It is generally considered to be one of the top 5 episodes in the series if not number 1.
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