Yeah I might be biased because I liked the movie, and there’s certainly some obvious stuff like making the three guys who harass the woman and beat up Arthur on the subway white bro-types, and making almost all of the sympathetic characters black, but I think some of the stuff in his review is a bit of a reach. He also spends a lot of time beating the whole “Joker is just a ripoff of Taxi Driver/King of Comedy” dead horse which I find to be a pretty off-base take.
Yeah I might be biased because I liked the movie, and there’s certainly some obvious stuff like making the three guys who harass the woman and beat up Arthur on the subway white bro-types, and making almost all of the sympathetic characters black, but I think some of the stuff in his review is a bit of a reach. He also spends a lot of time beating the whole “Joker is just a ripoff of Taxi Driver/King of Comedy” dead horse which I find to be a pretty off-base take.