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‘Joker: Folie à Deux’s’ Fatal Flaw Is Turning the Fans Into the Villains of the Sequel
The biggest problem with 'Joker 2' and Todd Phillips is the way the comic book sequel treats fans.
I hated Todd Phillips ’ original “Joker,” which made me feel like a crank when the hit anti(super)hero movie went on to earn the top prize at Venice, an Oscar best picture nomination and more than a billion dollars at the box office back in 2019. Hence the title, “folie à deux,” a psychiatric term which, according to Wikipedia, applies when “symptoms of a delusional belief are ‘transmitted’ from one individual to another.” Here, Gaga is introduced looking like Angelina Jolie in “Girl, Interrupted,” but is later revealed to be someone altogether different — no better than the women who send fan mail to notorious criminals, arranging to marry them behind bars. You be the judge — just as you get to decide what you think his mental condition might be, and whether that excuses his slaughter of seven people in the other movie: three white-collar bullies on the subway, the co-worker who got him fired, his abusive mother, an Arkham shrink and Robert De Niro’s character, late-night host Murray Franklin.
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