I don't think so either.

The whole movie uses the clown's subjective perspective instead of the objective perspective to tell the story to describe the clown's fission. The director is very restrained in showing Arthur's "poorness", but instead focuses on showing his sensitivity, suspicion and loss of control.

Would you feel sympathy for Arthur? Maybe, but that's not the main emotion of the movie.

The main emotion is just uneasiness.

This uneasiness does not come from the clown's violent process, but from the clown's process of becoming a clown.

According to the definition of a horror movie, it is a terrifying process in which a person fails to fight against his inner demons and ultimately surrenders to become a devil.

But the premise is that this city is Gotham, because in the Gotham described in the movie, in today's society, who doesn't have a dark, evil, and destructive clown in their heart?

The cowardly Arthur was swallowed up by the clown in his heart and became a real clown. What about you, can you really say to the clown in your heart that you will never defeat me?

Can you really guarantee that you will never be as cowardly as Arthur? Will you overestimate your own talent like him, and overestimate the goodwill of others like him?

Not sure.

That kind of uneasiness comes from this uncertainty.

This is what makes the audience really uneasy.

In fact, Arthur also had a kind and gentle side at the beginning. When teasing children on the bus, he would carry cards with him to explain his laughter.

Is it too fussy for someone to blame the boy's mother? But don't forget that in this society, people need a sense of boundaries, not to mention an adult and a child. They are strangers, so they naturally need a sense of boundaries even more.

But slowly, the "clown" in my heart grew up rapidly, feeding on the darkness of real society.

This "nourishment" has always been there. Reality has always been dark. The rich people on TV have never really cared about us. Our bosses and colleagues have never been our friends. Wei Guangzheng's superheroes have always only existed in comics or novels and movies.

Poverty and disease never go away, while misunderstanding, violence and indifference always pile up around us.

There is ruthless killing in the near distance, and indifference in the distance. The "clown" appears at any time, and there is no guarantee that we will not be defeated by him.

If I had to say there was something provocative about the movie, this would be it.

There is a line that can be called the title of the entire film: I thought my life was a tragedy, but it is actually a comedy.

At first I thought I heard it wrong. Shouldn't it be "I thought my life was a comedy, but I didn't expect it to be a tragedy"?

At the end, I realized that I was right. Arthur had long accepted that his life was a tragedy, but what he couldn't accept was that his tragic life was laughed at by you.

"What's funny or not is up to you."

Do you see? Arthur essentially hates comedy, and he has no talent for comedy at all.

But he misunderstood that this was his way of communicating with the world. The final ending pushed this "uneasy feeling" to its peak. Evil was enshrined, clowns came to the altar, and believers began to revel.

Regarding the values ​​​​of movies, there is also a very correct criticism, "I know you have suffered, but this is not the reason for you to kill."

Of course this is true.

But what I want to say is that when faced with the situation of being completely deprived, facing the dilemma of having nowhere to escape, some people can stand up again and again and continue, and some people choose to aim the gun at their own throats.

And some people can only choose madness and killing.

You can say "you can only blame yourself for being weak", but each of us will be weak for at least one day in our lives.
Chapter completed!