Coringa (2019): analysis and explanation of the film
Coringa (Joker, not original) is a North American film of 2019, directed by Todd Phillips, which has Joaquin Phoenix not the leading role.
O longa-metragem de drama e suspense narrates the origins of the famous villain, in 122 regrettable minutes, full of psychological and social reflections.
Passed in Gotham, it did not start from the 80s, or entanglement tells the story of Arthur Fleck, a poor homem and with mental problems that he works like palhaço. Extremely lonely and out of control in society, he is the one who cares for me.
Face to an instavel and decadent climate, Arthur's revolt is becoming more and more notorious and or homem pacato, transforming not terrifying Coringa.
Attention: from this point on, you will find spoilers!
Detailed analysis of the film Coringa
Part of the Batman universe, two blocks from DC Comics, Coringa (2019) tem um tom bem more heavy than super hero films that we are used to.
O intimate and gloomy entanglement seals num two vilões more conhecidos de semper, showing o human side behind the monster.
In the past history, no period in which Bruce Wayne's country is still alive and is his inimigo, or Coringa, a psychiatric person called Arthur Fleck.
How to pay attention to inequalities and asymmetries of life, or longa-metragem portrays the birth of an assassin and the painful path that or led to there.
Abandoned pela society: mental doença and poverty
O film se seals, sem dúvida, we feel extreme feelings of dissatisfaction and raiva Let us move individuals, observing its devastating consequences.
Logo for the first seconds of the narrative, listen to the radio announcer announcing that the city has declared a state of emergency due to or accumulation of lixo that creates a prague of gigantic moments.
Alem two problems of public health, as well as extremely violent and Arthur is an easy alve, being attacked and humiliated several times. Surviving thanks to some precarious work that he faced dressed as a palhaço, he was assaulted and scattered by a group of garotos.
Likewise, or homem tries to comply with his obligations and até começa for challenging the weapon that Randall, a professional companion, offers him. However, due to his instability and need to protect him, he ends up failing higher and passes to carry or object.
Arthur had a mental condition that forced him to laugh uncontrollably, more or medical accompaniment than he received, which is almost nonexistent and ends up being suspended, due to lack of funds. He is his own therapist who affirms: "They do not import themselves with people like you."
During the conversation we discovered that the protagonist has been admitted to a psychiatric hospital and takes 7 different tablets, but continues to be neglectedhair system. Arthur wonders:
Sou só eu ou is ficando tudo louco here?
In Gotham, the climate is tense and everyone struggles to survive, exhibiting hostile behavior as others. The same when he tries to fit in and interact with those who either surround, or always face with contempt or distrust.
Embora carries a weapon just to protect himself, because he lives in a world where no one can hesitate, his fury of him is increasing, at the same rate as the feelings of fatigue and despair.
Aside from the situation of poverty, which worsens when he is dismissed, he is also obliged to face daily discrimination:
A prior part of ter uma doença mental is that the people expect you to behave as you do not live.
Sem work, sem perspectives and sem minimum living conditions, Arthur represents or city destroyed, that loses or controls and begins a wave of rebellion. Já Thomas Wayne, on the other hand, becomes a symbol of the elite that delivers these individuals to their own lot.
Or suffocating present and or tragic past of Arthur
Embora Penny always or try for "Happy", or protagonist of the story lives in a deeply depressive climate. Being the sole responsible for taking care of my mother, who suffers from physical and psychological conditions, a solitary figure lives in function of her interminável tarefa e exhausting.
Repeated to the same rotina for years, he is limited to working and working on the side of the day, attending the same television program every night.
Despite the fact that Arthur and Thomas Wayne's filho, we end up realizing that the relationship as an entrepreneur would only be the fruit of his imagination. Through the clinical file da mãe, or Coringa unveiled or traumatic past that seems to have left deep marks.
Penny has never been hospitalized because of his psychose and Arthur, or adotive filho, has been subjected to various forms of abuseduring childhood, nas mãos de um antigo companheiro da mãe.
Extreme isolation and imaginary relationships
Also as Penny Fleck imagines a romance with Wayne, Arthur also fantasizes about various relationships throughout the film. We can attribute this fact to the weakened mental health of both, but also to the situation of carência and absolute isolation in which they are found.
The first indication arises when he is watching TV and imagines himself in the program, being interviewed by Murray. He confesses to the presenter that he was always "home from home" and had to protect me. In an imaginary conversation, they declared that they wanted to be pai e filho e se abraçam.
Contudo, it is the involvement of the protagonist with his vizinha, Sophie, which causes more shock among the spectators. Here, we we are also deceived Pela mind of Artur and led to confuse hallucinations with reality.
After crossing as a girl and her non-elevating line, Arthur began to chase Sophie, revealing an obsessive behavior. Not so, or the room is altered when you two do beijam and start to go out together.
Or namoro seems to be a "boia de salvação" and she is beginning to be present in our most remarkable moments, for example, when the face or her first comedy show number bar and when her mother is hospitalized.
However, during a moment of surprise, Arthur invades the house of the vizinha. She gets scared and implores him to go away: we can see that the evil is understood and that the relationship does not passou of a fantasy. We attended, de novo, to the dinners lived between the two and the two, it was confirmed: ele esteve semper sozinho.
A violent response: Arthur becomes assassin
Sophie's fate has not been revealed, but we can believe that she was assassinated. Not so, that this would not be or first crime in Coringa. It was some time before, during a metro trip, that his perilous instincts manifested themselves for the first time.
When three extremely arrogant homens, who worked for Wayne, began to assassinate a young man and passam to attack Arthur, the attacker or his limit. Assim, disguised as palhaço, shoot individuals It kills two hours.
Or ato and transformer for Arthur, who slowly assumes the position of the Coringa that we know. Depois de sair, running and hiding, he begins to walk with an unprecedented confidence and, for the first time, faces his unmistakable dance.
This gesture of gratuitous violence It has been announced to us that it receives the support of the local population, which it interprets as a challenge to the dominant class and to its exploration.
She wants to, to fúria assassina de Arthur é or rastilho that ignites a huge wave of extreme social revolt. Contudo, he appreciates the consequences of his actions:
All of my life is achei that did not really exist. But I exist. Those people are beginning to perceive.
Na televisão, or candidate for Prefeito, accuses or could of being inventive and frustrated, faking that he did not passam of palhaços and increasing the hatred that he existed before the rich.
In so far as this is true, all of a disturbed home is validated by a multitude of classes against a war of classes. After being identified as suspeito do crime, Arthur received a visit from two detectives and a press on the face of his most difficult time and being hospitalized.
There, enraged as she discovered about her past, hugged her or her darker side of her and suffocate me com uma almofada. As a sinister form of liberation, he declares that I was not "Happy" but only one day in his life.
Later, when two old colleagues visit him, he confesses that he stopped taking medication. The same exasperating one of them, Randall, who either mistreated, deixa or another go embora and part with a beijo na testa, declaring that he was the only one who always or had treated with respect.
Here is a visual or what happens in the mind of the protagonist: this is his history of vingança. You should be vitiated by the world, he just wanted to destroy it:
Eu costumava achar that a minha life was a tragedy... But now he is old than he is a comedy!
Rindo da desgraça alheia: a society and a media
Uma das reflections more shocking and atuais than Coringa raise é or sadistic mode as we use or sofrimento two outros as a form of entertainment. During a long time, attending Murray's show was Arthur's daily escape and appearing on television seemed like a dream.
Contudo, depois to lose or control and become perigoso, or protagonist begins to face such coisas for another angle. Knowing that the police are still following him or his trail, he is in a state of total apathy, I attached something or move. When you link to TV and see what program is broadcasting a video of comédia seu, as goal of o humilhar, or Coringa wakes up de novo.
Assim, when producing or inviting to be interviewed, blaming that his presence will render many gargalhadas, Arthur begins to prepare.
Thinking of personagem in details, the lesson or his speech and all the gestures that he will make, also painting his hair green and making up his face.
No longer alive, Murray does not appear to be pretending that he needs a doctor; Plateia laughs and claps her hands. I don't eat, Arthur dances and laughs too, more or more the interview gets upset when he declares that he killed you homens do metrô.
Scared, or questioned presenter is tempting to become famous or want to turn a symbol. A sincere and terrifying answer:
I have nothing to lose, nothing else will hurt me.
In this way, fica notório that these are you loucos of a desperate homem that I felt that the world was against him. Later, he began to explain his motives for him, claiming that military men like Thomas Wayne do not care about the rest of the company.
Logo depois, as accusations turned to Murray: o presenter, who I admired for so many years, was tempting to win dinheiro e audiências às custas das suas perturbações mentais.
Or what happens when you cross a solitary homem and doente mental com a society that either abandons and treats as lixo?
These are the last words that Arthur utters for the country inside, before executing Murray ao vivo, as a shot at the head.
A rebellion on the streets and a dance of Coringa
As we affirm further, it was Arthur's first assassin fury who increased the population or wished to destroy a system of extreme inequalities. Long year of everything or film, these are asymmetries são visíveis: o Wayne's luxurious lifestyle contrasts with the poverty we attend in our streets.
When the candidate for prefeito emerged on TV calling the underprivileged of "falhados" and "palhaços", when he promised to throw them out of poverty, to revolt took novas proportions. Also, a protest of enormous dimensions is marked for the same day as Arthur goes to TV.
You know, the protesters become their senior allies: when he is being persecuted by the police, Arthur manages to hit or submerge It is mixed in a multidão with masks of palhaço.
The police ended up being lynched and or Coringa escaped unharmed, I surrendered and walked with determination. One more time, there are some of his bloodthirsty ones that fire to raiva das massas.
Murray died on TV, violence escalated to streets that were invaded by riots that decided to destroy everything, in order to overthrow the elite and the structures that it favored. Raised by the police car, Arthur assists in devastation and sorri, as he is happy for the first time.
This is what the car and intercepted hair, and he is freed. At the same time, we see a two Protestants killing the country of little Bruce Wayne.
When he wakes up and is acclaimed pela multidão, or Coringa sorri and back or seu sangue us cantos da boca. Or moment seems to symbolize confirmation: nasceu or major vilão of Gotham.
Nessa has dinner, Arthur faces his famous dance. Later, after being admitted to a psychiatric hospital, she continued dancing sozinho. A Dança do Coringa, executed with singular passages, has been two more commented aspects of the film.
The idea would be the party of his own artist, Joaquin Phoenix, who performed on an impromptu basis. His symbolism has been quite explored, but to understand it, it seems to be not the behavior of the protagonist. Arthur is not home to many words, showing difficulties in organizing his thoughts and verbalizing them.
On the other hand, he reveals a creative spirit and wishes to make famous one day. Assim, you must kill, or the protagonist dances, not only as a way of expressing himself, but also to commemorate. As I know each step or afastasis gives invisibility and gives banal life, a dance represents or seu transformation process.
Explanation and meaning of the film
It will be Coringa is it merely an incentive to destruction and violence? Embora fosse possible to think isso numa first analysis, a message of the film vai muito além. She forces us to review the dichotomies of "bem" and "mal", "heroi" and "vilão" in absolute terms.
It is mainly necessary to point out that the length of the film by Todd Phillips diverges from the narratives that we know from other films from the Batman universe. Tracing for history Urgent social questões, Coringa remexe no passedado do vilão and answers a big question: how did someone chega on this state?
The reasons are various and we can list them: childhood traumas, deteriorated mental health, lack of medical care and adequate support, for example.
Arthur corresponds to two personagens that never exist, we do not have a collective imagination: first or palhaço triste e miserável, depois or palhaço assassino. Over the course of the film, we are witnessing a gradual process that led the protagonist of an extreme to another, ou seja, from victim to criminal.
There is, however, something that saddens us and that calls our attention: in a cold and cruel way as individuals we treat some other years, mainly Arthur. Nesse aggressive and difficult world, there is no empathy nem solidariedade com a dor alheia. It is Coringa himself who declares, in conversation with Murray:
Everyone is terrifying, at the moment. É or enough to leave qualquer um louco.
Assim, Coringa It is dark mainly because it leads us to think about the reality in which we live. A history, greater than you quadrinhos ou a tela do cinema, obliges us to reflect on the way as to mental health It is despised in the world of products and like those who require greater protection, in practice that is abandoned.
Resumo do enredo do film
Introduction
Arthur Fleck is a city of Gotham who suffers from a mental doença that or forces to laugh uncontrollably. To earn a living, the face of small jobs such as palhaço, but a victim of violence on the streets.
The protagonist lives like me, Penny, a woman who lives stubbornly like the old boss, Thomas Wayne. She wrote letters to the magnata, now a candidate for Prefeitura, asking for financial help, but she never received a reply.
He received medical support from his social contacts, or he passed away as he attended television with Penny and accredited that one day he will be a great comedian.
You may be attacked by a gang of garotos, you receive a weapon from a colleague at work, but you end up dropping or object during a presentation and it is demitted.
Development
Quite unruly, he is masked as palhaço not metrô when three rich homens come to assassinate a woman and a drummer. That's where Arthur shoots and ends up killing two of them. Depois disso, ele vai para casa feliz e dance, pela first time.
Not the next day, the news is getting rid of the hairs of the populace, they have begun to support or assassinate and to reject the death of elites, facing so much injustice in the social system. No time, Arthur knows Sophie, one more will let him know that he lives not because of him and they have come a relationship.
When Penny writes a new letter, the protagonist decides to read her content and the barnacle that is Thomas Wayne's filho. So he decides to go to the mansion of the family and meets Bruce no portão, who would become or rival. A local official declares that he knew Penny that the story was a lie.
After I had a bad time being hospitalized, Fleck went back to his psychiatric file and discovered that he was endowed and subjected to violence by an old companion of the past. Later, when he goes to visit her, Arthur decides to take her off as a travesseiro and kill her.
From this day on, he was isolated at home, but his spiral depressive and interrupted when a video was broadcast and not a program.
Murray, or presenter, ridicules or his work of him, and chama Arthur to participate does not program ao vivo, to humiliate him even more. When oil or treat, Arthur paints his hair green and makes up Coringa, I don't know what he happens to use.
No day on the vai à television, a big protest is marked on the streets and all the people wear palhaço masks. Assim, when the police manage to identify him and chase him, he loses his trace in the multitude and ends up being lynched.
Conclusion
Já during the Murray program, Arthur confesses to the assassinations and talks about the society that or marginalized, also blaming television shows like that. Then shoot two shots at the presenter, who dies for an hour.
Contudo, when police hairs are being raised, or car and protesters are intercepted or Coringa and liberated.
Enthusiastic, he celebrates or chaos and dances, commanding multidão. It was also during that night that Thomas Wayne's wife was assassinated in front of little Bruce.
After the final dinners, Arthur is admitted to a psychiatric hospital and talks to a therapist. No face, mantem or seu riso of Coringa that announces that the confusion is just beginning.
Personagens and cast
Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix)
Arthur is a marginalized individual who suffers from disturbances from the mental forum that is to be a comedian. As tempo, or your behavior is becoming increasingly erratic and disturbing.
Penny Fleck (Frances Conroy)
Penny is next to Arthur, a woman who lives in a dependency of the filho and is obsessed with Thomas Wayne, or her former patron of her.
Thomas Wayne (Brett Cullen)
Two representatives of Gotham's elite, Thomas Wayne, a very wealthy businessman and politician, is running for Prime Minister and promises to save the city.
Murray Franklin (Robert De Niro)
Murray is Arthur's favorite TV presenter and also an idol for him. Just perceiving the problems of an aspiring comedian career, he resolves to invite him for his program and ridicule him.
Sophie Dumond (Zazie Beetz)
Sophie lives not the same as Arthur's, with his filha, and turns to the chase of the vizinho.
Film technical data sheet
| Qualification | Joker (not original) Coringa (not Brazil) |
| Year of production | 2019 |
| Directed by | Todd Phillips |
| Dating from estia | August 31, 2019 (international) Outubro 3, 2019 (not Brazil) |
| Duration | 122 minutes |
| Classification | Not recommended for children under 16 years of age |
| Country of origin | United States of America |
| Gender | Drama |
Take the opportunity to also confer:
- Hereditary Film
- Film Mãe! (2017)
- Film Clube da Luta
- Film Donnie Darko
- Parasita film
- Film Laranja Mecânica
- Midsommar film
