One Hundred and Fifty-Two-Damn It, I Wasn’t Trained in Acting!
The film was shown in a silent atmosphere, which was completely different from the atmosphere in a normal movie theater. There was no sound of popcorn being eaten, or the audience whispering about the plot and drinking Coke.
The story is unhurried but realistic and cold and ruthless. The duration of the film is obviously longer than that of a normal commercial film. However, after such a long running time, the story gradually comes to an end.
Arthur, who knew all the truth, was determined to end all the pain and killed his mother with a pillow in the hospital. He always thought that his life was a tragedy, but unexpectedly it turned out to be a comedy, a comedy that everyone would find funny!
After returning home after killing his mother, he began to prepare for the talk show, imitating the appearances of all the guests he had seen before and rehearsing everything on stage.
If he was asked to tell a joke live, he decided to commit suicide on stage with this revolver. Show it to everyone through live TV, this lively joke of mine!
Arthur carefully combed his hair and turned his hair into the familiar green color that everyone should have. Just as he was applying white clown makeup on his face, two colleagues from the previous company knocked on his door. .
Colleague Randy took his naive dwarf colleague Gary to his residence with gifts. Big Fat Landau actually came to trick him into telling him that about the subway murder, the gun was the one Landau gave to Arthur.
He hoped that Arthur could make a confession with him and not be involved in this matter. But at this time, the "Joker" didn't care about this at all. Remembering Landao's previous frame-up of him, he took out a sharp weapon and stabbed him to death!
‘If you hadn’t given me the gun and reported it, I would have lost my job. Now you still have the nerve to ask me to cover it up for you? ’
These two sentences formed the voice of all movie fans. As Arthur stabbed one knife after another on the screen, a gasp of pleasure could be clearly heard in the theater.
The dazzling red splashed on the camera, but no one thought that Arthur had done something wrong. This character who was originally supposed to be a villain made the fans at the scene understand what he did.
In the film, his dwarf colleagues have always been kind to him. Arthur did not hurt him because the dwarf Gary was not tall, and he helped him open the door latch and let him go back.
Life is like a very difficult game! In the past, I might have had to take care of my mother who couldn't move, so I felt worried about her. But now there is no burden and he can quit early. Arthur is relieved!
The bright red suit jacket, yellow lined vest, green hair, and thick white clown makeup on the entire face. These contrasting colors reveal all of Arthur's thoughts at this time.
On the stairs leading to the talk show recording site, he put aside all his worries, released the "clown" that had been hidden in his heart, and danced gracefully and cheerfully!
The strong rhythm of the background music, combined with his wanton body language, and a few crows flying by chance, create this contrasting shot that looks like an oil painting.
At this time, two police officers investigating the subway murder case came up again and stopped Arthur's dance. But they did not draw their guns directly to arrest him, which means that Gary the dwarf did not call the police after he left.
Arthur was going to end his life as planned today, and he couldn't let them mess with it. He ran all the way and hurriedly escaped into the subway station, but the carriage was filled with people wearing clown masks. After a commotion, the police could not find where he had gone.
Two police officers were also targeted and pushed to the ground by this chaotic group of clown masks...
Backstage at the show, Arthur once again took out his revolver and rehearsed. For him who had nothing, it was just like that sentence. "I just hope that my death is more valuable than my life!"
After a burst of applause, Arthur danced out, not pretending to be calm as he had practiced before, but sitting truly relaxed. For the first half of his life, he lived under other people's rules and expectations. It wasn't until these days that he found his true self!
While dancing, Arthur forcibly kissed another female guest. After a while of pleasantries, Murray-Franklin really asked him to tell a joke on the spot. I saw him taking out his notebook. It still had the same sentence on it, but he flipped it over!
He tried his best to tell a joke, but was met with constant sarcasm from Murray Franklin. Even the female guest whom she forcibly kissed told him that it was not funny.
Unexpectedly, Arthur confessed to the live camera that he was the clown in the subway murder case, and emphasized: 'This is not a joke! ’
Murray Franklin: 'Are you telling the truth? Did you shoot and kill those three young men on the subway? ’
Arthur Fleck: ‘Uh-huh! ’
As a famous talk show host, he is a media person with a keen sense of smell. This kind of first-hand news will undoubtedly make his show popular.
He continued to ask Arthur about the details of the matter, and then Murray Franklin spoke high-soundingly and sanctimoniously made a "just" condemnation, but this angered Arthur.
A large group of poor people are struggling outside, but you discuss with me whether the lives of these three scum are precious or not. Am I evading responsibility or something?
Arthur then indicts the group for the rules they set about what's funny and what's not. Accusing the indifference of the powerful, the hypocrisy and ruthlessness of people like Thomas Wayne. To accuse Murray Franklin of being shameless and to invite him over is just to ridicule him again.
After saying that, without any hesitation, he took out his revolver and shot the talk show star to death on live TV!
Nicolas Cage, who was immersed in his own movie, was suddenly slapped by his cousin next to him. Sofia Coppola's eyes were like looking at another person, full of disbelief at her cousin's performance.
"Nicola, this is a movie-level performance. Director Greenberg is so amazing. He can train your acting skills so well!"
At first, Nicolas Cage looked extremely proud when he heard his cousin's rare praise of him, but when he heard it later, he felt like he had eaten a dead fly!
"That paragraph was my own inspiration. Damn it, it was the sublimation of my acting skills with Robert Droney Sr." Pulling Sofia Coppola's head towards him, Nicolas Cage looked at it seriously. cousin.
"This part has nothing to do with that bastard Wayne. He just sat behind the director's monitor with an ice cube face. I was not trained in acting! Understand!"
"Keep your voice down, Nicholas, don't disturb others watching the movie!" She pulled away the hand holding her head and rolled her eyes at her cousin. "Well, no matter what, your performance is definitely Oscar-winning actor level! What a pity..."
Nicolas Cage suddenly nodded, turned his gaze to the screen again, and said, "Yes, it's a pity..."
But Arthur still did not hurt anyone who was not involved. This was a live TV broadcast. He originally only planned to end his life and had no intention of taking the lead or leading anything.
But his outraged words ignited the blood of the rebels across the city through live television broadcast.
Arthur was arrested and escorted back to the police station in a police car. Along the way, he leaned his head on the car window and looked at the chaotic and disorderly resisting crowd outside. This scene echoes the scene of taking the bus home before in the film, one is full of sadness, the other is full of joy!
Everyone on the road waved to him, paying tribute to the heroes of their resistance!
Suddenly, an ambulance knocked over the police car. The perpetrator and other confused clown masked men carefully took Arthur out of the car, hoping that he would wake up.
Behind the scenes was a chaotic and rioting group of people at the bottom of society. That night, the entire vast Gotham City was set on fire.
At the theater on the other side of the city, "Pink Zorro" was being screened. Thomas Wayne and his wife took the little Batman and entered the alley through the chaotic crowd.
---This is it!
Everyone who is familiar with the Batman series knows that Thomas Wayne and his wife will be shot and killed by robbers in front of Little Wayne, which will lead to the entire Batman story!
"Hey, Wayne, you brought this upon yourself!" The robber wearing a clown mask decisively shot and killed the Waynes, leaving only the young Bruce Wayne standing there bewildered. land.
The movie camera returns to Arthur, who gradually wakes up under the cheers of the crowd. His whole life he was ignored like air, but now he has become the leader of countless people.
Amid the cheers of countless people, he stood on the roof of the car and gracefully painted himself the clown's signature blood-red mouth!
He is kind-hearted, is this really the ending he wants? no! His life has no retreat and no way out!
Arthur used to live by other people's rules, but he was really not good at it! From now on, he will dominate the dark side of Gotham City according to his own rules! Amidst the piercing sirens, Arthur opened his hands in front of countless of his believers!
The camera flashed back to the mental hospital again, and there were those programmed questions again. This time Arthur had nothing to say to the doctor. She didn't understand it at all, and she didn't care at all!
Arthur, the most insignificant person in the city, indirectly killed the most powerful person in the city. He just wanted to commit suicide, but he inadvertently became the leader of the rebels. He thought that his life was a tragedy, but But it turned out to be a comedy, with countless accidents that make people laugh!
In the end, Arthur dragged the bright red and dazzling blood toward the sun-filled exit. With opera-style background music, he escaped from the hospital and started his new life!
The cast and crew subtitles began to appear on the big screen, and the lights in the theater were turned on one by one. The extremely quiet theater remained silent.
"Click, click..."
Whether it was the invited guests, various film critics who wanted to take a sneak peek, or the movie fans who occupied 80% of the seats, they all stood up, and no one was still sitting on their chairs.