Movie Reactions: Joker 

I watched it in theaters and I felt very unsettling most of the time, because I'm familiar with mental issues of people I know, and my own anxiety and depression (the 2 bastards always come together)... It's a demonstration of how films can be very powerful, how a movie well-crafted can make you feel and think. One of the best movies I've seen in my life (and I watched some, to say the least)

This movie is a dark disturbing masterpiece

"Okay, I'm waiting for the punchline." "There is no punchline..." [Instantly cuts to the gunshot] Me: XD

Thank you. Clowns have feelings too.

17:29 “I knew it was going to be bad, and I knew it was going to be that bad, but I still wasn’t prepared.” You and everyone else. Great reaction!!!

A movie that reminds me of the Joker is a French film called " he loves me, he loves me not." It's so good.

Because "opening up" *varies in difficulty,* depending on how big, painful or unpleasant the secret is

13:55 “I never heard him crying, he’s always been such a happy boy.”🤦‍♂️

As a fifty year old New Yorker, I can testify that this movie captured the mood of NYC in the early 80’s. Crime in the city made today’s Chicago seem tame. Garbage men were did go on strike and it seemed like no one was ever willing to help. I didn’t think it could get worse but then crack came along and proved me wrong. Edit: and the subway shooting of the three guys had to be inspired by Bernard Goetz Except he didn’t shoot business men

React to The Elephant Man (1980). Directed by David Lynch.

21:45 The therapist's job is to facilitate that. Otherwise they wouldn't deserve a salary. That's why the job title is so prestigious, cause it's not easy. If therapists expect their patients to just put it all out there, then so many more people could become therapists, but the job entails more than that, and developing a skill for making patients open up is definitely up there on the list. that's why not anyone can be a therapist.

Man, you sure can pick em, chica. 😂 This one is a hard watch for most anybody. Though no one can deny that the acting was brilliant.

he said it,life is not a tragedy,it's a comedy "Smile" and the world will smile back...haha

Umm, as for being "mean to clowns" pertaining to Thomas Wayne's statement - I do not think Mr. Wayne was referring to the actual "clown vocation" itself. It was directly targeting underprivileged citizens by way of the street slang terminology, as in, "this guy is a fool, a *clown,* a failure not be taken seriously". Fairly clear, yes?

Didn't you get the bit where he was on the stairs in the hospital reading the notes about his mom. That was when he was realising why his life had all been so messed up because she was a lowsy irresponsible parent that had effected his whole life.

For the most part this movie is shown through a device called "unreliable narrator". Since everything we see is through Arthur's eyes we can't really be sure what's real and what's not since he isn't.

I think when u realized that Arthur killed the lady at the end(i may b wrong) ur cat was like "why'd u stopped?"😆 Also whenever i saw that dance that symbolized he went down to his darker self/sanity n when he did that bloody smile it ALWAYS gave me goosebump. Loved ur reaction!

The most important movie of the decade.

You have an excellent mind and a beautiful heart. I loved your review/reaction to this important and illuminating movie on mental illness. I just recently saw it, and I was astonished by the film and Joaquin Phoenix's powerful performance in it.

The sad thing is, I actually understand a lot of what he went through. I blocked the memories for a long time. I am doing my best now to recover them all. The trauma that is so bad that a child regresses into an atypical mindset. Medication should not have been prescribed. Chemicals are not the way. The murdering only started after the chemical imbalance happen due in part to the medications. What he really needed was to be guided correctly. A therapist that hasn't truly understood trauma isn't acceptable for the job. Parents also can't help, mine didn't understand and mistreated me because of it. The imagery used after he shot the show host is of an Indian. Subliminal message of going "savage". I'm Indigenous, a full blood Navajo, and I found it to be quite offensive. Hollywood has always portrayed my people in an ugly light. It doesn't matter how "good" of an image they make. It's always distorted in some fashion. So the movie shows how Joker became a savage. Batman, the cowboy, is the savior of Gotham. Subtle hints as to how even nowadays, society treats those lesser. An interesting way to put in perspective in a sense. Oh, and you wouldn't like what it's like in his mind... At all. It'll terrify you at just how... how to explain this... How unnerving and discombobulated everything is. If in your mind, logic and reason are solid factors which make up your daily driver... In a mind like his and to an extent mine (in my youth, I consider I was insane), logic and reason are as fluid as the electromagnetic energy encompassing this universe. In other words, even if you were to see inside a mind like that, based on everything you know as sane and true... You'd be hard pressed to find your way out after you just took one step in.

I love your face when you get something lol. No loud "WOAAAW" but a silent "ooooooooooooh".

If someone can still make excuses and justifications for a failed system and failed society like trying to put blame on the person with mental illness after watching this whole movie that tells me that specific someone missed the entire point of the movie and is one of many reasons why nothing will ever change in real life 🤷‍♂️

Really powerful commentary. Great insights. Keep fighting. I know its tough. You're making important content. You are changing lives. I look forward to more material from you.

A good movie to watch is the sandlot it's a really good coming of age film

02:00 no dear. You don’t/won’t ever be able to “understand” or connect with somebody on that level.

This is the best movie i ever watched, the cinematography is amazing, the act of Joaquin Phoenix is phenomenal

You might find it amusing to know that there is a countdown from 10 to 1 cleverly hidden in the backgrounds of scenes. If you look closely, you can find the numbers as we countdown to him becoming The Joker. Also, all the clocks have the same time, 11:11. There is a lot of stuff going on just beneath the surface in this film. There are you tube videos if you’re interested that go into more detail on these and other Easter eggs hidden in the film.

It's such a difficult movie to watch. His decline and the reinforcement happening all around him encouraging his decline further or bad luck that facilitated even more. It's just a rough story and when I saw the climax in the theater I was legit shocked. So visceral! The audience walked out in a low murmur as everyone seemingly was processing. It's a brilliant but raw movie experience.

React to Taxi Driver (1976), the film that inspired Joker.

Up the stairs- beaten, dejected. Down the stairs- joyous, dangerous.

I remember the woke people pretty much wanting to burn this movie for romanticizing either white privilege, male privilege, or incels or all three. Nuanced analysis of mental health, society, the healthcare system doesn't matter to them. I would like to believe those people are the minority but are very hard to miss on social media. Also there is no amount of help he could get both in his universe and ours that will result in him becoming a stable adult. The best case scenario in his world is a lobotomy, in ours...pills which are sedatives and a nicer way to get a similar result. It's a runaway train of horrible shit he had no control nor aware that those things existed.

Joaquin Phoenix won the oscar for best actor from this movie. It was also a huge boxoffice hit making over a billion dollars

Hi Belle, wow so your checking out Joker. It's a dark movie. But amazing acting from Joaquin Phoenix and I love the Gotham City sets in this. I recommend the Dark Knight trilogy if you haven't seen them yet. Those would be the perfect movies to watch next after you got done watching the Joker's story.

Movie is phenomenal

If you enjoyed this film then I would highly recommend another great Character Study films about characters who aren't partically heroes or to root for, I love films where the main character is flawed, an anti hero or an actual villain. So anyways this is some of the films that are similar in tone : There will be Blood, American Psycho, Taxi Driver (Which has a lot of similarities with Joker), Nightcrawler, A King of Comedy (Which also has tons of similaries with Joker), Pickpocket, Raging Bull (which also has De Niro), Naked, Bad Lieutenent, Shame, First Reformed, The Gambler, I stand Alone, Clean Shaven, You were never really here (Which also has Joaquin Phoenix in it), Drive, The Master, Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer (A vert disturbing film so be prepared), The Machinist, Crazy Heart, Bronson and The Golden Glove (Also a very disturbing film, it's based on true story of a real life German serial killer Fritz Honka). Hope you check out some of them, I think There will be Blood, American Psycho, Taxi Driver, Nightcrawler, Shame, Raging Bull, Naked, The Master and You were never really here could all be great for Reactions!

I agree with eveything joker on the murray show sense in my honest opinion because everything he said is so true i also think nobody shouldn't be bullied and be treat it like trash that's just me but i respect your difference opinion

Humans are flawed and sometimes you can't change outcomes that are the result of that fact.

Its been 5 years and there's still not a better movie

Thanks belle. Amazing movie.

Many great scenes and moments but one I like is the way the movie built up and made everyone panic who reacted to this when he dropped his gun in a children's hospital was just great film making. They could have made it so cheesy or not believable but I don't care who you were, you had a moment of panic during that scene.. and that wasn't because he dropped it which seems like an easy get... but it was because the film makers had you on edge with his character and understood him just being there was scary to begin with so adding the children's music with the moment just doubled down on everything.

I like the way you think. You start with the simplest facts, and ad one after the other until you find a conclusion or a contradiction (just like Hannibal Lector). Smart. I often think about everything at once, with mixed results ;-) Speaking of thinking, there is a movie called "12 monkeys". A bit unusual but very interesting. would love to hear your take on it.

21:43 Who should he open up to?

Great reaction girl

Great reaction, n now I'm a subscriber, keep grinding beautiful.

thx for the reaction you did really well.

16:41 🤣🤣...that killed me i was watching you on 0.5x speed and u was like "looks like he has alot!!!!!!!! of problems"

I love this movie. It’s my second favorite movie of all time. There’s not too many films that have made it on my top list and this is one of them. It’s masterful and misunderstood by a lot of people that just wanted a reason to hate it. They proved the point of the movie by making excuses to hate it.

Have you done a review on Joker?

It seems brilliant until you realize it's a rehashed Taxi Driver. Hence De Niro being in it.

You can’t tell somebody what’s going on when you don’t know what’s going on when you’re so delusional you don’t know what’s real and what’s not what are you supposed to tell somebody and what do you even remember when you’re on auto pilot through the day talking to a counsellor what is he supposed to tell her he doesn’t know what’s real

His problem is that he can't control his laughter

I'm on the maximum dosage of 4 different brain-meds. Without them, I can't. Anything. My brain builds up resistance to the meds and I have to go off of them for a while, but I try to cycle through them so that I still have the other three working during those times. This movie was like a love letter. It was like being seen. The system in Gotham is a mockery of our real health-care systems. There is no reason he should have ever "opened up" to that system. There actually are people who are not responsible for their actions due to madness. That's why the insanity defense is a legal defense. Research Eddie Gein. Research paranoid schizophrenia. As uncomfortable a thought as it is, some people are missiles, destined to launch and explode. The fact that you spent most of your time commenting on the theoretical character of Joker rather than the nature of the film demonstrates how good this film was.

The whole movie is what's going on in the mind of a mad man in an observation room of a loonie bin.. Its where he is in the beginning and the end of the movie 😊🤔🙄

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Another movie to watch, *REQUIEM FOR A DREAM*

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i love you belle

Katelyn is a cutie...and good reaction.

All I Gotta say is thank God you pause the movie and talk about it because if not it would only be about a 30 minute video of six different facial expressions out of you lol good video though some of these channels don’t pause and then give their insights so all I Gotta say is thank God you pause the movie and talk about it because if not it would only be about 30 minute video of six different facial expressions are you LOL good video though some of the channels don’t pause and then give their insights so well done

Sorry ... What was the movie about? 😊 It's that I got lost in your eyes ... 😍 ♥ ️ ☺️ Nice reaction 👍👏👏👏

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i love you

i wonder if this was terrible editing or insane censoring

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You have no reactions.wtf....

Lol faceee

Great movie....maybe too much for u though?...u seem like the joker urself lol with this reaction...0 emotion....still awesome though...good stuff!!!