An absolutely impeccable film from start to finish. Aesthetically, artfully, meaningfully. And yet it draws a line where it shouldn't and refuses to look where it should.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Although generally understood to be a satire, a proper understanding of this film today should attempt to recover the historical context from which it arose and to which it ultimately owes its true meaning. Whether the director believes in it or not.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Politics masquerading as film. The spectacle and affective allure of cinema redefines the traditional (liberal) political operation of art: from coincidental serendipity to hysterical mass-mobilization. It highlights concerns with the current state of climate politics based on the COVID19 model.xxxx
An incredible spectacle of all things rich, glamorous, technological and philosophical, that is undermined, unfortunately, by being forced into streaming services that attenuate its natural cinematic language and render the film's complex point even more inscrutable (and inaudible).
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A deeply moving and profoundly philosophical intervention into the problems facing contemporary Sweden. If social change can be produced through moving-image, this series is its proof.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
An interesting genre-comedy of Wild West gun-slinging incompetence that exposes fundamental structures of human-being stripped-bare of all of its pretenses, and a glimpse of the basis of authentic religious belief.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Joker presents an interesting, if over-worked character study of the transformation of Thought possible at the bottom of abject, alienated human existence. It's political potential, however, is intentionally displaced and it ends-up contributing to reproducing the problem it describes.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx