Films Analysis

Joker on the road to freedom

4 reading minutes
written by Le Regard Libre · March 22, 2020 · 0 comment

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.

Si nous admettons que la dialectique de l’ordre et du chaos constitue la structure fondamentale de l’œuvre d’art, il ne fait aucun doute que Joker se place sous l’égide de Friedrich Nietzsche. En effet, Joker met en scène la quotidienneté d’Arthur Fleck – on pourrait ici penser, quant au nom du protagoniste, au Smerdiakov de Dostoïevski d

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