(8/11/19)
Joker (2019)
Based around mental health.
"Joker is constantly blurring the line between reality and fantasy."
You leave the movie questioning what was real and what was fake, very much like a mental illness. There are clocks throughout the movie that all show the exact same time, which leads people to believe the movie may just be fantasy created by his mental illness, like Schizophrenia.
Tone of the movie is fearful yet manages to equally show humor. This relates to Arthur's condition pseudobulbar affect, which makes him laugh from nowhere, often when he's nervous (in a fearful situation)
https://youtu.be/OLjjz3QOGMs
Joker (2019)
Based around mental health.
"Joker is constantly blurring the line between reality and fantasy."
You leave the movie questioning what was real and what was fake, very much like a mental illness. There are clocks throughout the movie that all show the exact same time, which leads people to believe the movie may just be fantasy created by his mental illness, like Schizophrenia.
Tone of the movie is fearful yet manages to equally show humor. This relates to Arthur's condition pseudobulbar affect, which makes him laugh from nowhere, often when he's nervous (in a fearful situation)
https://youtu.be/OLjjz3QOGMs
In contrast, at the talk issued by Creative Network x Thought Bubble with Brain Azzarello (7/11/19 at Leeds Arts Uni), he talked about writing the script for "Joker" Black Label. He said that "Joker wasn't about mental health." His main focus was creating a character with a dark side, like the label he was producing for. He wanted to show Joker's ability to scare people and his over all insanity- in contrast to the strong mental depiction in the current film.
Due to the strong build up of character background throughout the DC universe, I think it was impossible for Azzarello to create the Joker in a way that a modern audience wouldn't see a mental disability in him, as he has always been known to be 'mad'. The iconic laughter of the joker has been passed through every story but I think the 2019 version has identified that this is not because of his love and joy of murder, as Azzarello tried to show.
Due to the strong build up of character background throughout the DC universe, I think it was impossible for Azzarello to create the Joker in a way that a modern audience wouldn't see a mental disability in him, as he has always been known to be 'mad'. The iconic laughter of the joker has been passed through every story but I think the 2019 version has identified that this is not because of his love and joy of murder, as Azzarello tried to show.
Baby Driver (2017)
Tinnitus. Baby wears earphones throughout the movie, listening to music to drown away the noise of tinnitus as well as to overcome childhood trauma of the car crash that killed his parents and gave him tinnitus. His disabled foster father, Joseph, is deaf and they communicate using ASL.
The use of music in the movie allows the audience to connect with Baby, as the album allows them to listen to what he listens to. Also, if you watch the film using headphones, the sound cuts out in an earphone when Baby removes one or one falls out of his ear. This arguably makes the viewer deaf in one ear.
Tinnitus. Baby wears earphones throughout the movie, listening to music to drown away the noise of tinnitus as well as to overcome childhood trauma of the car crash that killed his parents and gave him tinnitus. His disabled foster father, Joseph, is deaf and they communicate using ASL.
The use of music in the movie allows the audience to connect with Baby, as the album allows them to listen to what he listens to. Also, if you watch the film using headphones, the sound cuts out in an earphone when Baby removes one or one falls out of his ear. This arguably makes the viewer deaf in one ear.
(Added on 24/11/19)
Last Christmas (2019)
Just watched this in cinema. Very subtle use of Schizophrenia. Never mentioned to the public.
[Spoilers because it's a new film] The woman falls in love with the man who donated his heart to save her. She spends the movie spending time with the man, and it's revealed at the end that the man was never there. She lives inside her own world, without it being made to look crazy and maddening and colourful, like Alice in Wonderland, for instance.
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