Underneath that shiny surface -- those European languages, that shaky camera, the celluloid crackle, those obsessively researched name drops and archival easter eggs -- this is a 3 hour and 35 minute (plus intermission) bid for a Criterion Closet episode from a snotty goyishe prick who sincerely feels that not getting one is tantamount to the Holocaust, rape, and heroin addiction combined. There was so, so much potential here to contend with the great problems of mid-century Jewish, American, and…
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Joker: Folie à Deux 2024
You’ve been misled. Compared to the first one, this is smarter, more incisive, more complex, more emotional, more ambiguous, and has more to say with bolder production and narrative choices and dense, thoughtful symbolism, in general taking this story in really the only way it could’ve feasibly gone without descending into typical cape-shit sequel-itis. It’s the Kid A to Joker’s OK Computer.
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