no but i saved some of my rants for posterity, in a text file. for example: joker 2 and social engineering this is political because it's about how movies are used to influence public perception. it's a form of psychological warfare in this case. in the movie the joker with juaquin pheonix, you see arthur fleck a low class man with mental illness, using gun violence against the wealthy and corrupt financiers of his city. by the end of the film you see he's inspired rioting and this hints at his future as the clown prince of crime in gotham. that's the expected sequel. the joker is traditionally a villain of batman. in most stories batman would be the protagonist and joker the antagonist. the enemy. the joker does bad things and batman stops him. it's really that simple. nobody calls the joker heroic in these stories. the hero is batman. his heroism is vigilante justice against criminals who prey on the innocent. it's easy to root for batman and to feel catharsis when joker get's a baterang thrown at his face. the movie the joker, seems to take inspiration from 70's films such as taxi driver, where robert deniro plays the titular driver, a low class man with mental illness, using gun violence against the corrupt criminal pimps trafficking underage girls. the taxi driver, like batman, is using vigilante justice to right a wrong in society that seems to go unpunished. but taxi driver is a conflicted character, a schizophrenic who poses a danger to politicians. had he not died a hero, he would have become a villain.
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