Why did Arthur embark on a road of no return in "Joker"? What did he go through?

Colleagues framed, career frustrated

While working on the road, he was beaten by gangsters, fell to the ground and ignored; his colleagues gave him a gun, and then reported Arthur for carrying a gun at work , Arthur was fired by his boss; Arthur sought psychological counseling from the government, but the psychologist was perfunctory every time. In the end, in order to save money, the government even eliminated psychological counseling.

Mother's Abuse

While taking the subway, I met some white-collar workers from Wayne Company who bullied a girl. Arthur suffered from epilepsy due to nervousness and was beaten violently by the white-collar workers. Once he pulled out a pistol and killed someone; his mother told Arthur that she was Wayne's illegitimate son. After Arthur found her, he was beaten in the toilet and told that his mother was a madman. Arthur went to the hospital to check the files and found out that his beloved mother was mentally ill. His epilepsy was a self-protection mechanism caused by his mother's abuse of her, and he killed her.

Being ridiculed by others

Arthur imagined his neighbor as his lover and supported all his actions. In the end, Arthur found that the other person was just his fantasy; his idol. Talk show actor Murray regarded him as a joke and repeatedly played the video of Arthur laughing nervously on TV, and invited Arthur to go to the scene to make everyone laugh again; the multiple collapses of family, love, career, and friendship caused Arthur to embark on the path of At the point of no return, he planned to commit suicide on live television. However, the talk show host repeatedly interrupted Arthur's prepared "dying joke", and Arthur, who couldn't bear it, chose to pull out a pistol and kill the other party. The film reached its climax at this time, and the whole city was in a sensation. They surrounded the clowns and regarded the clowns as totems. When one clown fell, thousands of clowns stood up in Gotham City.

The world Arthur lives in is a world with a huge gap between rich and poor

The first reaction of many people after watching this film is: That’s it? A mentally ill person killed someone who was not worthy of death and became a spiritual totem in the end. It is amazing that this kind of bad movie can win the Golden Lion Award. I still remember that after last year's premiere, there were a lot of articles criticizing "Joker" for having bad views and bringing bad luck to children and harvesting the sentiments of literary youth. First of all, from a personal point of view, I don’t like to abuse the term “three wrong views” when evaluating film and television works. The three views are derived from a person’s experience and cognition. Everyone’s experience is different, and there must be a lot of angles when looking at the problem. difference. Overemphasis on the Three Views of Righteousness has resulted in the fact that one can only watch films with the main theme of Wei Guangzheng and Lei Feng. The same is true for "Joker". It actually does not promote or advocate any values.

Secondly, the content of the film has been discussed and controversial. This in itself is a revision of universal values. It is actually unfounded to say that the clown has distorted people's values. Gotham is a metropolis with an extremely large gap between rich and poor, and its prototype is Los Angeles. There are capitalist mansions that are comparable to manors, as well as old, small, dark and damp slum apartments. Capitalists boasted on TV, shouting that all employees are my brothers, and my brothers’ wives are my wives. In fact, it is a problem for the people at the bottom to even have enough food to eat, a wife and children, and a hot bed.