I’m not motivated to watch the new Joker partly because the premise of a whiny incel/red pill/mass shooter type newsy contemporary justification sounds tedious, but mainly because it collapses the wave function. The origin indeterminacy feels essential to the Joker character.
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A whale of a performance. It wasn’t just the shifty origin story—the fearful symmetry of chaos sprung from chaos—but Ledger’s equally shady body language that made him almost impossible to parse/predict.
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I resist learning the lyrics to songs I like, keeps them fresher longer
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an earlier example (of achieving awesomeness via unreliable origin story) was V for Vendetta, the graphic novel
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