Todd Phillips:a new origin myth for Batman’s most famous supervillain opponent. Joaquin Phoenixplays Arthur Fleck,a pathetic loser and loner in Gotham City,(本段主要是笔者眼中的有效的剧透,以支撑文章后面的主要论点) some time in the early 1980s. Arthur is a former inpatient at a psychiatric facility but is now allowed to live with his elderly m...

loner – the dark side of the cowboy/vigilante figure – who has since become a terrorist archetype. Previous films had dealt with the vigilante trope – most notably theDirie... not the presidential candidate Charles Palantine – a plot line that reflects the script’s origin in the story of Arthur Bremer, the would-be assassin of George Wallace – but th...