Arts & Culture

‘Joker 2’ Should Have Stayed in Arkham Asylum

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I would say “Spoiler alert!” if there were anything of substance to spoil here. Joker: Folie à Deux disrespects everyone who watches it in the cinema by wasting their money and time. The movie tries to ride upon the success of the original Joker but, much like every other sequel, it is the worse version of the original one. Numbers don’t lie — while its predecessor grossed over a billion dollars worldwide on a budget of 70 million dollars, Joker 2 is on pace to lose 150 million dollars in box office sales.

Opinion

WANG | Joker & Performing Mental Health

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Last Friday, I finally sucked it up and watched Joker with another friend. Joker, styled in bold, strained yellow as the film’s title card, is exactly the kind of film it has been marketed as so far. Replete with jagged violence, moody lighting and an inimitable Joaquin Phoenix performance, the movie thrives on concocting shock and rage to drag out a visceral reaction from its audience. “Holy Shit,” someone muttered next to me, in what I turned out to only be the movie’s fourth or fifth most disturbing moment. It was just that kind of film.