I wasn’t fond of the Joker movie since a lot of unstable people already idolized the character as though he was a role model…and worried the movie may turn him into a sympathetic anti-hero
Exactly. I feel the movie did try to make him unsympathetic in many ways, and I’m not saying I didn’t like the movie, I really did. But it clearly made him not just an anti-hero but the butt of the whole joke of all the problems in his life. He himself caved in and became the lowest kind of scum, a murderer, because of his own innate character flaws in frankly, his stupidity.
I know people with many worse problems than he has and they don’t corrupt themselves into murder as a result. There are ways of handling things in a healthy way, though of course that doesn’t make for interesting movies.
I wasn’t fond of the Joker movie since a lot of unstable people already idolized the character as though he was a role model…and worried the movie may turn him into a sympathetic anti-hero
Exactly. I feel the movie did try to make him unsympathetic in many ways, and I’m not saying I didn’t like the movie, I really did. But it clearly made him not just an anti-hero but the butt of the whole joke of all the problems in his life. He himself caved in and became the lowest kind of scum, a murderer, because of his own innate character flaws in frankly, his stupidity.
I know people with many worse problems than he has and they don’t corrupt themselves into murder as a result. There are ways of handling things in a healthy way, though of course that doesn’t make for interesting movies.