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Joker 2019
I've always found Joker a difficult film to evaluate. Widely celebrated upon its release, and nominated for several academy awards including best adapted screenplay, it can be fairly critiqued as a film negatively haunted by the looming influences it draws heavily from, a patchwork of recombined fragments and facsimiles of Scorsese’s early films that suffers hugely through its overwhelming similarities and comparative shortcomings.
Although Joker contains some potentially intriguing commentary about America’s own spectres (particularly those of Reagan-era neoliberalism) and…
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