whole movie was
The fact American culture regressed so much that a Taxi Driver remake with superhero characters is somehow considered fine art
They not listening
I mean the bit where he goes on Murray's show and spells out how society did him wrong. The whole speech felt so on the nose and came off as corny to me.
!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbliHNs4q14
The movie itself doesn’t even say anything, it touches on all these heavy social themes with the tact of an early 80s Saturday morning cartoon meant to sell toys while not integrating them into Arthur’s goals -
Hold up, what are his goals even? He doesn’t wanna be a social activist (pretty much says so himself) yet we’re drawn to people looking at him as one? There’s no reason for any of that to be framed as an important part of his journey if it isn’t even something he actually cares about...it’s just there
it’s not a flawless movie at all to me
but if the joker character in general doesn’t have any real motivations and he just wants to see chaos, it makes sense that his character wouldn’t have any real goals. it just feels weird when he’s leading the film.