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Joker is a fantastic movie.

Joaquin Phoenix is a fantastic Joker.

This movie, in my opinion, brings us the most relatable and most sympathetic version of Joker that we’ve ever seen in live-action film. A man who simply wanted to “bring joy and laughter to the world” and his descent into madness through the constant barrage of a toxic society.

Arthur Fleck is a very sympathetic character. In the beginning, he’s sweet and socially awkward, peaceful and shies away from confrontation. He’s trying to work with the world, color inside its lines, but all it does is invite pain. The system doesn’t care about him, takes away his medication, leaves him unable to cope and without employment to care for himself or his mother. His own appointed social worker offers him no help, even after she notes several obvious suicidal thoughts within his journal.

In this iteration of Joker, Arthur has a neurological condition where he laughs at inappropriate moments, to the point where he literally chokes himself from laughter. This only further drives Arthur’s pain with dealing with his mental illness– people constantly assuming that he’s laughing AT them when he simply cannot help it.

This condition seems to be triggered due to stress or sudden feelings of anger:

- The woman berating him on the bus for “bothering” her child

- Reggie making rude jokes toward Gary

- The businessmen harassing the woman on the subway

- His first attempt at stand-up

- Thomas calling Arthur’s mother ‘delusional’

The transformation from Arthur into Joker was a slow and methodical process. Arthur began to act out. He began to mouth off. He began to stand up for himself because “he had nothing left to lose”. He was tired of the system kicking him while he was down.

He took control of his life in the only way he knew how, by retaliating with the same violence and hatred the world was giving him.

In the beginning, Arthur doesn’t hurt anybody. He couldn’t cross that line. He didn’t think he had it in him.

However, during the subway incident, he hurts those that attack him first, killing the two businessmen out of self-defense and hunting the final one down, giving him his first taste of real power. Of control.

After these killings, Arthur begins to kill those he feels have wronged him or deserves it. Randall for making him lose his job. His mother for allowing his abuse and subsequent trauma that caused his laughing disorder. Murray for mocking him on live television and inviting him to tease him further.

Despite the drastic change, Joker is not a separate personality to Arthur. To me, Joker represents the urges that Arthur’s been fighting back.

Joker IS Arthur.

Joker is Arthur’s way to retaliate against the system, against those who wronged him.

The stairs that led Arthur back to his apartment that’s used throughout the movie represented his sanity. Each time he walked up the stairs, sticking to what society expected of him, he was defeated. Depressed. Unable to fight back.

In the final act where he becomes Joker, he’s dancing down the stairs, descending into madness. He’s happy. He’s confident. He finally feels freed from what society forced him to be.

He’s finally able to see the comedy in the tragedy of his life.

Women of all ages are more likely to survive in times of crisis. 

A study of the last 250 years shows that women have longer life spans during famine or disease epidemics, and female survival rates are especially higher during infancy. 

LGBTQ is a community of people who refer themselves to as lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders. LGBTQ members face constant issues of being unaccepted by people with traditional sexual orientation. As a result, one of their main priorities is to achieve equality in the modern society.

The discrimination of LGBTQ representatives is a serious concern especially when it comes to quality pursuing. For those individuals who consider themselves homosexual or still have to understand and accept their untraditional sexual orientation, social discrimination is their major fear that should be overcome no matter what. Nowadays, open gays or lesbians receive unfriendly stares or even negative remarks regarding their sexual orientation. 

Bullying is a behavior that can cause harm to a person.This act is mostly found is schools where a student who is bullied can affect his/her academic performances in schools.A student who is bullied can lead to absences and sickness which is a result of a depression.

Depression is one of the result of being bullied.It can cause harm to a person where he/she will hurt itself.Bullying has its kinds we have the most common one the cyberbullying , it uses computer or any gadgets to bully someone.Bullying also done through physical threat.The one who bullied will suffer because of bullying them again and again.Victims of bullying sometimes can’t survive this act and it may lead to SUICIDE.

Teenager nowadays they get drunk just because of break ups and small problems. They used to do it it’s because they want to erase a little bit amount of pain.

Though alcohol can help us in our problems, we should take good care to ourselves. Alcohol is not the only solution, we have our family to share of. Alcohol is dangerous that we cannot control for sure.