Watched the movie joker the day before yesterday.  And it gave me a new perspective towards for the life  . It is never about how good you are to others or how kind you are in your heart you will meet few shitty people in your life who will force you to bring out the joker in you.

Story Line: Gotham
city

 The movie directed by Todd Philips started
with  Arthur Fleck  skinny , shy ,average looking and a struggled
comedian. Who stays with his mother and takes good care of her because there is
no one else he has in life except her. 
He is working  as a party clown in
birthday parties and in hospitals for children while struggling to make it big
as a stand up comedian. Arthur is also having a condition where he starts
laughing at inappropriate times , the laughter caused by his anxiety and
depression.

The doctors he went to could not understand his pathetic life instead put him
on medications. They did not want to listen to his problems and was just
treating him as a person having mental illness who is to be cured. He kept
thinking that nobody understands hi because he has a mental illness.

Arthur met a girl form his building in his lift and started dating that girl .and invited her to one of his standup comedy shows where the moment he want up to the stage his anxiety and nervousness took over and he started laughing continuously and failed to deliver his jokes.. Mean time one of the other shows in tv the anchor named Murray played his video and made fun of him in the show.

Everybody in his surrounding kept bulling him no matter how much he tried to be a part of the sophisticated society. Weather its his co worker at his work or the guys on the street .Nobody left one chance to  show their power on him. Getting beaten by bunch of guys and go to work and put on a happy face and play the character of a clown that all his life was .One of the guy at his work handed him a un forcefully and asked him to use it when needed . The day he went to a hospital for a clown show in the childe ward the gun fell off from his pocket and the next day he was fired from his job. The guy who gave him the gun also refused to acknowledge anything..On his way back to home he was again bullied by three young businessman and this time Arthur decided to give it back he killed two of them while defending himself and in that anger he executed the third one.
The murder was all on  tv and in the same context a successful business person Thomas wayne labelled those envious of more successful people as “clowns”. Demonstrations against Gotham’s rich. Which started a huge protest among the suppressed society .People started wearing masks of clown and started hating the billionaires.

When Arthur goes back to home he found out  a letter that his mother wrote to Thomas wayne stating that Arthur is his bastard child and just for his reputation sake his mother has maintained the secrecy till now. Till the time Arthur had no idea who was his father, when he got to know the news he went to meet Thomas in a hope that he will accept him al these years later and his pitty ,miserable life will just end . Instaed all he got was rejection and portraying his other as diseased women who is just trying to ruin his fame.

Arthur could not take the rejection and all the allegations
and in the search of truth he went to the hospital and found out ,he is an
adopted child and he was abused by his mothers boyfriend in childhood and his
mother has let this to happen . with the anger in him and the bitter truth in
his head he went to the hospital where his mother was admitted .he could not.
face his mother after knowing all the truth and killed her in the hospital. In
the mean time he has already stopped taking his medications . He went to the
girls apartment who he was dating . That was the moment when he realised  he never dated the girl and the girl did not
even know his name he was having delusions because of the medications what made
him make up a story in his mind to feel the comfort what he was missing in his
life.

The next morning two of his colleagues came to see him, one
of them was the person who made him have the gun and leave from the job . He
killed the guy by shoving a knife to his throat and let the other guy leave because
the guy was always good to him at work maybe he felt connected to him more as
he was also one of the bullied person in society.

That day The TV anchor Murray has asked hi for a appearance
in is show just to make fun of his failed comedy. While police were chasin him
down the road somehow he made it to the studio . he requested to introduce him
as joker. The moment he started the interview Arthur confessed about the murder
that he did on television. And with a heavy heart  told how no one has ever noticed him before as
he became a protester to this bullied society, before he started opposing the way
people behave with him. Instead the anchor started putting allegations Arthur
shot him dead on live television. Police caught hi and were taking him to the
poli station. That time it was chaos everywhere and everyone got a  boost to protest against the bad happening  in the society.  One of the protesters killed  Thomas and his wife leaving Bruce on the idle
of the road..On the way to jail the protesters killed the police man and
rescued Arthur . The moment Arthur saw all the people cheering for him as if he
gave them a ray of light in their life .he started dancing standing on the top
of the car.

Perspective:

A bunch of people in society are those who is like Arthur,
who gets bullied and mocked at every step of their life ,Nobody cares what he
is going through and what is he feeling .It
is going crazy out there day by day .Is this what humanity is all about!!
To show or to prove that we are superior than others by making someone feel bad
.And when the person decides to retaliate against the bad things happening he
becomes famous ,everybody starts gibing attention, There is no place for good
now a days if you want people to notice then you have to bring out the joker in
you. It is really a chaos in the world now .In the competition of to be successful
and to be ore powerful, we forget the basic human behaviour like sympathy, kindness
and the power of a warm hug for a troubled person.

We like heroes so much the way they  fight for the right , the give justice to
everyone the punish the villain. But nobody ever thought that what made the villain
the villain of the story. The things that happen with him and the situations he
went through made him stand against the society. Its not about a good or bad
person its about the people surrounded by you and the way they treats you.

we all have a JOKER inside us ,Lets hope it does not come out one day. Giving
someone the warmth of love does not need power it needs a good heart .Start loving people instead just yourself.
So that the bad in everyone buries inside and only love comes out.

I did not intended to write anything, but the story of this Joker inside us moved me so much, i felt like sharing it. The Movie JOKER  an intense ,psychological thriller is worth watching has a strong message and out of the box perspective towards life.

Anindita Rath