Although he wasn’t created to be such a predominant villain, he has evolved as time has evolved. Originally he was just a sadistic villain with a twisted sense of humor but my interpretation as time has progressed from my first time watching this show, has evolved. And I can have a totally out of the box interpretation but its mine and this is my story......
There’s so much to smile for but there’s also so much to frown for. Which outweighs the other?Â
“ Smile, because it confuses people. Smile, because it's easier than explaining what is killing you inside”...... “ So I had a wife, beautiful, like you, who tells me I worry too much. Who tells me I ought to smile more. Who gambles and gets in deep with the sharks…look at me! One day, they carve her face. And we have no money for surgeries. She can’t take it. I just want to see her smile again, hmm? I just want her to know that I don’t care about the scars. So… I stick a razor in my mouth and do this…to myself. And you know what? She can’t stand the sight of me! She leaves. Now I see the funny side. Now I’m always smiling”!...... “Why So Serious? Let’s put a smile on that face”.
                                         -JOKER (Heath Ledger)
Its really sad to relate to such a society made sadistic character but that becomes the mystery of it all. Because there is a positive to all his negative, just depends on which perspective you choose to look from. It’s not that he’s crazy, its not that he’s a clown, it’s that there is truth to his comments/script and plenty of quotes to decipher from, dissect, and attach to your personality. He mentally challenges the humanity of the world and that is really interesting and cool to me because forcing someone to think into depth about things they’d normally turn their heads to is a powerful trait to have. && considering the obvious, he is like the fictional but very much visual representation of the underlying concious of just about everyone. What one person wears their heart (emotions) on the sleeves no matter the environment? None, and he is that person.....there’s so much trouble in the mind of the joker that he suppresses it with a smile on his face and a chuckle in his voice....all the while....NO one knows what his issue is, it’s only speculated. Sounds familiar right....example one....people don’t bring their outside emotions to the work place, WHY? because its unprofessional...Says who?...your CEO, society, God? Its just really crazy how we take orders from so much that we may not even agree with it and would probably never agree with if we lived life without having to do it. That’s what this character does......well at least for me.....That meaning he does what is still expected of him but is still rebel enough to push the buttons and force people to choose the choice they know they want to being the one society wont let them chose. Another oxymoron....I must like oxymorons. Although its only a comic turned cartoon turned movie, the person behind the face of the smile is the person who most interests me for the exact reasons expressed.Â
I TOO..... often find time to ONLY THINK of how we all say we are our own person and we make our own rules and we don’t listen to anyone but ourselves and God and yet we understand the man made concept of right or wrong. I’m not saying we should just do anything and negate the notion of what is considered to be right or wrong because of course then we’d be either in really big trouble or worse because everything is pretty much set in stone and won’t change. But my thing is, is that, its fairly incisive and enticing to try to put together a visual world in your head where certain things just weren’t categorized or stipulated to be “BAD” and/or “GOOD”. It also goes with everything else in the world, we say choose to believe what we see but there are so many things the average person doesn’t see but takes the word of strangers who they have never and will never meet. So is that alone right or wrong, or is choosing to disbelieve right or wrong......This can become a very extensive conversation but......













