If this weekend you’re only seeing one depressing character study about an unemployable, fatherless, antisocial manchild who lives with his sickly mother, is often unattractively shirtless, and eve…
If this weekend you’re only seeing one depressing character study about an unemployable, fatherless, antisocial manchild who lives with his sickly mother, is often unattractively shirtless, and eventually decides society must pay violently for his general misery … then you are almost certainly going to “Joker.” As it happens, however, there is an alternative also fitting that description perfectly well.
Ronnie is a classic candidate for delusions of grandeur, not to mention martyrdom: He imagines himself some kind of super-patriot defending his nation from various threats, while in fact he spends nearly all his time at home in a bleak Southern California suburb, watching porn or visiting alt-right sites online, henpecked by his sickly old mother . He’s unemployed, unskilled and unmotivated, fixated on a dream of military service already nixed by his failing the psychiatric entrance exam.
Nonetheless, Ronnie does make some efforts to improve his situation. He gets a stock-boy job at a local market run by an Arabic father and son , though his racial attitudes are unlikely to make that last long. He scores a coffee date with a nice collegiate woman , though … well, you can guess how that goes. His MILF fantasies seem to be coming true when he develops an acquaintance with a sexy neighbor . Most exhilarating, his vlog posts attract favorable attention from his hero Mr.
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