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# Shall We Talk About Joker?
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/shall-we-talk-about-joker-10-2019/
- Published: 2019-10-03T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2019-10-03T17:51:14.000Z
- Description: Zazie Beetz seems cool, at least.
- Author: Heather
- Tags: fugs, Christopher Kane, Dion Lee, #wp, #wp-post, #hasslideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:07, Rooney Mara

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We already saw [Rooney Mara's offering from the first *Joker* event](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/rooney-mara-looks-like-rooney-mara-at-the-joker-premiere-09-2019/), but there were more shenanigans there, and another event last night. So, let us catch up on the hats and purple and wacky Zazie Beetz confections. I'm curious: Who among you is looking forward to this movie? Necessary context for my reticence: I am not that into movies about killers, and I'm not comic-book person (the CW shows and very occasional Marvel movie viewings are my limit), so I wasn't in a particular hurry for a case study on The Joker. But also, it feels like... I've read the reviews, [like this one from *Variety*](https://variety.com/2019/film/reviews/joker-review-joaquin-phoenix-todd-phillips-1203317033/?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io), about how Joaquin Phoenix's character "stands before us not as a grand villain but as a pathetic specimen of raw human damage. Even as we’re drinking in his screw-loose antics with shock and dismay, there’s no denying that we feel something for him — a twinge of sympathy, or at least understanding." No thanks. I'm sure I'm being simplistic, but: A movie asking me to sympathize with a white dude who turns violent just because he feels misunderstood, and whose outsider mentality drives him to bloody vengeance, is not a place in which I want to immerse myself right now. Such people are a bit too real for me these days, and turning it into Joaquin Phoenix dancing down a staircase to an eerie "Send In The Clowns" just makes me change the channel. I just can't go there. Also clowns are the worst.

But, that's just my reaction, obviously, and perhaps it's too uptight of me. So: Does anyone want to see it? *Has* anyone seen an early screening? Is it worth the purported twinges of caring?

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