The film shows the ways that abuse leads to more abuse. Rather than rehabilitate and try and become a better person, Arthur becomes twisted by the abuse he suffers. He turns into a villain and takes his trauma out on others using violence.
Ironically, in the end, it's those same people who once humiliated him that rally around him, to protest against the corrupt and unjust system. 'Joker' painfully illustrates how we create our own problems through an inbred superiority complex and a self-absorption that blinds us to other people's pain.
Joker isn't nearly as subversive, or dangerous, as many critics have claimed it to be; the film is no ode to inceldom, but a half-hearted condemnation of austerity. The film pushes the idea that poverty, abuse, and unchecked mental illness can lead to violence.
If I had to drill down on one overarching theme for me, it's about the power of kindness and a lot of people miss that. I think if you don't see that you either don't have a soul or you're being reductive to make up for your own struggles in that area.
He wanted an exotic, enduring character as an ongoing source of conflict for Batman, designing a diabolically sinister, but clownish, villain. Robinson was intrigued by villains; he believed that some characters are made up of contradictions, leading to the Joker's sense of humor.
What mental illness is the Joker supposed to have?
The Joker (or Arthur) appears to have a complex mix of diagnoses, including pseudobulbar affect – a rare condition consisting of uncontrollable laugher or crying, and possibly a psychotic illness, evidenced by his apparent hallucinations about the subject of his affections (played by Zazie Beetz).
The film uses the progression of Arthur slowly transforming into the Joker to imply the effects social injustice has on the oppressed when they do not know the right way to respond and the fact they can be easily misguided by their justified anger.
Joker's life is destroyed because a high bar for success is unattainable for poor people in the highly stratified society. Thus, Joker transforms into a villain, whose clown mask embodies the subversion of the social order, in which the ideology of success is used to hide the injustice existing in society.
Personality Disorder, specifically, Histrionic Personality Disorder plays a key part in Harley Quinn's life. People with Histrionic Personality Disorder are “pervasive and excessive emotionally and display attention-seeking behavior” (Bornstein 1998).
Much like her son, Penny suffered from an unspecified mental illness. She was responsible for letting her former boyfriend abuse Arthur in his childhood and was temporarily sent to the Arkham State Hospital for unsolicited claims.
What disease does the Joker have that makes him laugh?
The above-mentioned characteristics make the Joker's laughing episodes compatible at first sight with the pseudobulbar affect, a clinical entity characterized by episodes of exaggerated or involuntary expression of emotions, including uncontrolled laughing or crying.
In the documentary I Am Heath Ledger (via Digital Spy) it's revealed that, in order to keep the prosthetics in their place as they got loose when he spoke, Ledger had to lick his makeup to keep it in place, and it ended up becoming part of the Joker's manic personality, as well as his most memorable mannerism.
Penny had a mental disorder and her case history records at the mental health clinic mention Arthur having a head injury after she abused him, tied him to a radiator and beat him alongside her abusive boyfriend.
Director Todd Phillips considered the character's body size as one way to represent his vulnerability. It is important to emphasize that unlike most people who diet to lose weight or who develop an eating disorder, Phoenix's weight loss was intended for the short amount of time it took to shoot the movie.
He read her file at Arkham Asylum. Not only was she mentally ill herself,not only was she delusional to the point that her delusions harmed his mental state,but her disorders caused her to allow him to be abused by her boyfriend,and abuse him herself[physically and emotionally primarily and respectively].
It's also implied that the Joker may have been abusive to her (which may have been seen in the original comic as he was about to go into an angry tirade against his wife for saying "oh" in a flat tone over his failed attempt at the comedy club, only to then apologize in horror over his lashing out at her, especially ...
In the file—illustrated by a flashback to Young Penny (Hannah Gross) in Arkham, bruised and confessing to her past dark deeds—he learns that his mother wasn't just some lovestruck employee who went mad after a crush—she was a dangerous, hyper-delusional narcissist who stood by while her partner at the time abused ...
In the final version of the film, however, gangster Jack Napier - who later becomes the Joker - takes Chill's role as Thomas and Martha Wayne's killer, while Chill, according to producer Michael Uslan, became one of Napier's men who accompanied him in mugging the Waynes, was credited as "Other Mugger", and portrayed by ...
The comics series The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing features Batman's nemesis get pregnant after a curse is placed on him, Daily Mail reported. Eventually, the Joker "vomits a sort of brown goo" that transforms first into a baby boy and then into a mini version of himself.
Though Zatanna's backward spell, “On eno esle lliw reve evah ruoy ybab!” (“No one else will ever have your baby!”), backfires and the Joker wakes up to discover he is nine months pregnant. Suddenly going into labor, the Joker vomits with the ejected matter morphing to form a mini Joker.
Mad Love introduces Harley Quinn as a former psychologist named Harleen Quinzel who fell in love with the Joker during her internship at Gotham City's Arkham Asylum and details her transformation into the Joker's villainous accomplice Harley Quinn, as well as the Joker's lack of respect for Harley.
Everything seems to be going swimmingly until Arthur lets himself into Sophie's apartment after his mother's death, and she barely recognizes him. Viewers then see alternate versions of Sophie's scenes where Arthur is interacting with thin air, clearly indicating that the entire relationship was a fabrication.
History. According to the Joker, his father was "a drinker and a fiend". Joker claimed that his father gave him his cheek scars due to his being terrified when his father brutally stabbed his mother sadistically with a kitchen knife when she attempted to use to defend herself.
