David Fincher Says Joaquin Phoenix’s ‘Joker’ Was ‘a Betrayal of the Mentally Ill’

[spankmypirate]

David Fincher Says Joaquin Phoenix’s ‘Joker’ Was ‘a Betrayal of the Mentally Ill’ https://t.co/pilLleLQea pic.twitter.com/flZue7UBn4
- IndieWire (@IndieWire) November 14, 2020
In the latest instalment of "Fincher Has a Hot Take", the director recently described the hit film 'The Joker' in an interview with The Telegraph, likening the film to a mash-

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[burntbussy]

[sluttyroyals]

i only remember the articles about protesters in latinoamerica wearing joker facepaint to conceal their identities and americans getting mad because the joker is problematic.

[milotic2]

And the fear mongering comments here

[ext_2796703]

I went to see it and every man in the theatre was so disappointed in it. I think they were expecting it to be more incel like.

[adam_pally]

I mean people in the US casually walk around Walmart with assault weapons so...

[veritas_44]

Blame the awful marketing of the film for that. It still sucked on many levels though, imo.

[bananasnrum]

It turned a number of my coworkers into insufferable “misunderstood” knobs

[3rdattemptuser]

I still think it's an incel propaganda movie at heart.

Just scroll the reddit threads about all the sad, virgin, white men who could relate to the film.

[anna_drenxavier]

On youtube, too. So many comments about how Joker's victims are "getting what they deserve" because when "society" treats men like that, sociopathic violence is the justified outcome.

[3rdattemptuser]

exactly lol

[stillglows]

so this happened a few years before the joker came out but your comment reminded me of it. there is this super problematic cosplayer in my area and one day for some reason he went out in his tdk cosplay and had prop guns and went around acting like the joker and obviously, it freaked people out and he got arrested. lmfao.

[fleurs_sauvage7]

And all it did was make people dance on those stairs in NY annoying the locals. 😂