Three THR critics unpack Joker's violence, politics and portrayal of mental illness — and ponder the perennial question of whether art comes with a moral responsibility
even more directly references), that gets under people’s skin. In other words, it’s a real movie with recognizably human characters, not a CGI-heavy cartoon. is that it indeed feels like it's set in the real world, not one populated by cartoon figures.
Of course, I’m sympathetic to family members of victims of mass shootings like the Aurora tragedy during a screening of in 2012. But I can’t disagree with what Phoenix said in a recent interview, that it’s not the filmmaker's responsibility to teach an audience the difference between right and wrong.
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