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Critical Claim paper
A single violent event in our lives can affect the rest of life. We can either become evil or a spiritual person depending upon the type and intensity of the event that happened with us. The story of the movie Joker (2019), is based on the same plot. Joker is a psychological and thriller film based on the life of a comedian who failed to make his audience laugh. He descends into insanity and gets inspired by violent activities against the wealthy people of Gotham. In my opinion, the movie Joker assumes that Breaking social norms can cause isolation and outbreaking of evil desire inside. Comment by Mackenzie N Breneman: Try to avoid 1st person plural (we, us, etc.) and instead use “I” or avoid personal pronouns in general Comment by Mackenzie N Breneman: Don’t need to say “in my opinion” Comment by Mackenzie N Breneman: I think I get the idea here, but it needs to be rephrased. I would also include the 2 ways of reading the text in your first paragraph right before this sentence

There are many aspects of the subway scene in the movie “Joker” that reflects the life of people around us. Joker, a person who was suffering from a mental illness but unable to explain it to the people around him make him outrageous and evil. In this scene, we can clearly observe that Joker was feeling miserable, helpless and was unable to control himself from laughing because the condition was not in his own control. Comment by Mackenzie N Breneman: Which scene? Be more specific

Watching the movie, it is observable that his uncontrolled behavior attracts the attention of the people in the corner of the train who were teasing a young girl. They thought that he is making fun of them because the girl refused to accept the offer of sharing food items with one of the well-dressed guys on the train; who seems to be from rich family background. For a normal human being, especially a man it’s insulting if a girl refuses any kind of offer in front of other people or the friends of the guy. Having a clown laughing at the same moment adds more to the embarrassment. A similar situation happens with them when the “Clown” starts laughing when the girl refused to accept their offer. But the violent and humiliating behavior of those three men towards the Joker wasn’t good and justified at all. They should have listened to him, when he was trying to explain to them “it is a condition, I am having”, but in their anger, they didn’t listen to the Joker. The way he was laughing was not obviously normal, a normal person can not laugh like that, it was very obvious that something was wrong with him. He was choking due to laughter but they didn’t pay attention, instead, they humiliated him. Comment by Mackenzie N Breneman: This paragraph is more of a summary. It needs to connect more to the claim and add to your argument Comment by Mackenzie N Breneman: If you put something in quotes it should be word for word what is said in the movie. This doesn’t seem like a direct quote

The scene that happened in the subway raises many questions. People in the city of Gotham, depict our society where people are not aware of many mental disorders. If the episode of disorder occurs in a public setting the person who is suffering already gets abused or face violence. It is very certain when an episode of disorder occurs it is not in the control of the person, however, instead of understanding them, people often start hitting them or torturing them instead of helping them out.

Another important critical reflection of the world in this movie appear to be dark, uncaring where the hero of the movie is unable to find a hint of comfort or relief. A similar situation happens in the real world, where people do not offer any help to those who are in dire need. Everyone is busy in their lives, and the one who is suffering has no moral support with him. Similarly, Joker here is all alone in his fight against mental illness; he was upset because he lost his job particularly for bringing a gun to a children’s hospital; which he was given by his friend to his own protection against the increasing criminal activities happening in the city. Losing his job makes him extremely upset. No one understands him even the girl on the train does not bother to look at him, instead, she ran away saving her life from those three rich guys on the train. Comment by Mackenzie N Breneman: Try to focus on the text rather than what happens in real life

In the later scene, we can see that the three guys approach him while singing “Send in the Clowns” and were hitting him hard when he tried to leave and grabbed his bag. In the self-defense, he took out the gun he had for safety, and open fire on two of them. After shooting them, he realized what he has done, but it was too late to control his anger and outrage. He was being hit badly, was bathed in his blood dripping from his mouth. At the same moment, he decided to kill the third one to vanish all the evidence against him. after chasing him for a while, he killed the third guy also. It is the evil conducted by the Joker, which shouldn’t take place at the first moment. It reflects how human beings when stressed and are aggressive take decisions that we regret a lot later in our lives. This one bad incident involving the murder of the three young guys encouraged the Joker to kill more people. For him, killing rich people is a tempting fantasy of persecution and relief, of embracing nihilism in a dark and terrible city of Gotham and will serve as a complete escape from this terrible world. This scene has gained a lot of empathy for the fans of the movie; however, in my opinion, an evil act is always evil, even if a person is going through the worst events of life. Comment by Mackenzie N Breneman: This doesn’t really sound like your writing based on the rest of the paper. If you’re taking an idea from somewhere else, be sure to give it credit Comment by Mackenzie N Breneman: This needs to come back to the claim more

To Conclude, the subway train scene of the movie reflects that the behavior of both; joker and the guys were not appropriate. We don’t know what others have been through. Hitting and humiliating others is bad conduct of behavior but killing them in anger is a crime. Instead of being responsible for the murder of these three people, Joker killed another man in a live show later on in the movie and people rescued him after he was caught by the police. Therefore, such violence should not be promoted even in the movies. That conveys the young generation a message that we should act violently in our dark phase of life. So, we can kill people just because we are angry, have a disorder and the world is not fair with us because that’s what the Joker did.