The joker is a container film. Everyone just projects their own bullshit into it and that is perfect because we live in CLOWN WORLD. There's no such thing as society. 
Not true Aimee. It's a pointed critique of the Reagan arm of neoliberalism. The fact that the character himself is unable to quite grasp his predicament -though he does better than anyone else around him - is part and parcel of the analogy.
