FILM
CRITIQUE
A New Beginning for a New
Hero
by : SONG , XIAOJING CAROL
Last weekend, The Joker won the
Golden Lion Award for Best Film at the On the Dark Knight of The Batman
Series, The Joker's crazy theory was
76th Venice International Film Festival. It
has become the first film adaptation of a
superhero comic book to ever win three
top awards in Europe. It is surprising but
also expected; the fact that a comic book
superhero movie won this award for the
first time is a surprise indeed, it is, rather obvious; he strongly believes that
the more people go through a series of
negative stimuli, they would gradually
start renouncing their own principles
and become crazier with every little
push. This theory is portrayed through
various scenes in the film; for instance,
however, an expected result due to the
character of The Joker himself as well as
the core essence of the movie that goes
far beyond the comics. This film is not
only a new beginning for The Joker and
his spiritual awakening as a protagonist,
but also for the cinematographic
direction that future DC movies will be
taking.
This new film offers a refreshing
take on The Joker as a character. The
Joker’s most typical characteristic is
madness, or so it appears to be. In fact,
under that crazy clown mask of his, lies a
peculiar ideology that he strongly when The Joker has lured several
gangsters wearing clown masks and told
them to rob the mob's bank then kill
their accomplices so they could get more
money. Those who were hesitant were
immediately killed by their accomplices,
and because The Joker himself was the
most decisive in his process, he was the
only one to survive.
The Joker often uses human nature’s
weakness to make complex choices, and
one of the most wonderful scenes that
showcases this was that of the dilemma
of the two ships. On board of one ship,
were ordinary people, and on another
believes in. one, were prisoners and criminals.
IT Magazine / Occtober Issue
22