I'm traveling at the moment and have some down time to watch movies On Demand.
Nothing too earth shattering, but I noticed a few woke themes that were new to me in the IPs.
I had seen the OG Joker before, but had completely forgot about Joaquin Phoenix' shoehorned delusional relationship with his single mom black tenement neighbor.
It really stuck out in a movie that was otherwise acclaimed as being representative of "incel rage". I likely wasn't as redpilled as I was now when I saw The Joker originally in 2019-2020, so I probably didn't notice it on the first run.
Still haven't seen The Joker II. All I know is that everyone else hated it and I, Hypocrite loved it, possibly as a troll.
I'd never see A Man Named Otto before with Tom Hanks, but remember the previews.
I watched the first half. It reminded me of a cleaner Gran Torino with Clint Eastwood, where a crotchety widower slowly gets won over by his DEI neighbors as they flood his white picket fence formerly White street.
Then I turned it off immediately halfway through when some pooner flyer deliverer on a bike tells Hanks that she was transgender and his dead wife HS teacher was the only one who was ever nice to her.
The thing about it is, the black single mother neighbor works because Arthur is a poor loser living in a shit neighborhood. The exact place you'd expect to find such a girl, with the only unrealistic part being she isn't obese. And her not being a raging bitch, as such a person would be, is likely part of his delusion that someone is nice to him.
Its likely that it was included to make sure to have a "positive black character" in the otherwise mostly white cast (as both the fat lady on the bus and his therapist are awful people) which is a Woke reason, but I don't think it was truly shoehorned as it would be even more unrealistic to pretend a poor ghetto in not-NYC doesn't have a nigger in every third apartment. I dare say the lack of them beating, robbing and attacking him (instead using rich white finance bros) is much more Woke through omission.
Its similar to how in the newest Batman movie, the random gang attacking people on the street is almost all white guys, except for the one black dude who is only half facepainted to make sure you know he is the black one and also the only one who is hesitant. The lack of blacks is far more Woke for the story they are trying to tell because its literally them whitewashing reality to hide what those areas are actually like.
Perhaps I'm biased towards it because I liked the movie, but I think if we are going to continue to have negros in films (we will) I can compromise on them being places they literally are in real life living the same sad existences they also are in real life.
To be fair, would you have taken Murray's "dey dindu nuffin" retort to Fleck seriously had the attackers been black? It would've been unintentional comedy.
If the attackers had been black it would be have such "business as usual" it wouldn't even have reached his attention.
The white boys work well enough because those types do exist, and are necessary for that plotline to work, but the lack of additional random violence from blacks/Mexicans sticks out like a sore thumb based on everything else represented in the movie.
I recall the kids who stole Arthur's sign at the beginning of the movie were third-worlders of some kind, but that's about it.