Joker on the road to freedom

Le Regard Libre N° 60 - Antoine Bernhard and Elliot Mazzella

It is the very universality of the themes addressed in Joker that makes this film an absolute masterpiece. And if we accept that the richness of a work lies in its ambiguity, in the number of equivocal interpretations it conjures up in the viewer's mind, then it's not pointless to illuminate it in the light of that earlier art, literature. We invite you to retrace the enigmatic journey of Arthur Fleck: the Joker on the road to freedom.

If we accept that the dialectic of order and chaos constitutes the fundamental structure of the work of art, there's no doubt that Joker falls under the aegis of Friedrich Nietzsche. Indeed, Joker depicts the everyday life of Arthur Fleck - the protagonist's name might remind us of Dostoyevsky's Smerdiakov of the time.