Joker

Joker (2019)

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Social Worker: What's so funny?
Arthur Fleck: I was just thinking... just thinking of a joke.
Social Worker: Do you wanna tell it to me?
Arthur Fleck: You wouldn't get it.

Arthur Fleck: My mother always tells me to smile and put on a happy face. She told me I had a purpose: to bring laughter and joy to the world.

Social Worker: They don't give a shit about people like you, Arthur. And they don't give a shit about people like me either.

Arthur Fleck: Please, I don't support that language, just don't... DON'T.

Arthur Fleck: Ugh, why is everybody so upset about these guys? If it was me dying on the sidewalk, you'd walk right over me! I pass you every day and you don't notice me. But these guys. What? Because Thomas Wayne went and cried about them on TV? Playing my video. Inviting me on the show. You just wanted to make fun of me. You're just like the rest of 'em.

Arthur Fleck: I killed those guys because they were awful. Everybody is awful these days. It's enough to make anyone crazy.

Arthur Fleck: Is it just me, or is it getting crazier out there?

Arthur Fleck: I used to think that my life was a tragedy, but now I realise, it's a fucking comedy.

Arthur Fleck: Everybody's telling me my stand-ups, are ready for the big clubs.

Arthur Fleck: For my whole life, I didn't know if I even really existed. But I do, and people are starting to notice.

Thomas Wayne: Gotham's lost its way. What kind of coward would do something that cold blooded? Someone who hides behind a mask.

Arthur Fleck: What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him and treats him like trash? You get what you fuckin' deserve.

Arthur Fleck: You don't listen, do you? You just ask the same questions every week. "How's you job?" "Are you having any negative thoughts?" All I have are negative thoughts.

Arthur Fleck: I don't want you worrying about money mom, or me.

Arthur Fleck: She always tells me to smile, and put on a happy face.

Factual error: In the beginning of the movie, while dancing with the sign, the guitars in the window of the music store are D'Angelico guitar designs that weren't released until the 2010s. (00:01:35)

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Trivia: While the time period of the movie isn't explicitly stated, the movies showing at the cinema the Waynes are at (Zorro The Gay Blade, Wolfen, Excalibur, and Arthur) were all released in 1981, making that the likely year it's set. The Zorro reference is certainly a nod to established comic continuity, where the Waynes were watching The Mark Of Zorro.

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Question: Spoiler! The scene at the very end, with Arthur locked up talking to the doctor/social worker - is that meant to be later, after he's been captured again, or is it a flashback to when he was hospitalised before, as was referenced earlier in the movie?

Jon Sandys

Answer: This is later, as the building appears to be Arkham. He's committed there instead of going to jail based on his insanity. It appears he is laughing about the death of Thomas Wayne, we see a flash of that scene again for a reason.

lionhead

Chosen answer: I think it's meant to be deliberately ambiguous. I took at as him being locked up for his crimes, but others have commented that they think he was always locked up and the entire movie takes place in his head.

Phaneron

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