JOKER

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Joker

summary

Arthur Fleck works as a clown
and is an aspiring stand-up comic.
He has mental health issues, part of
which involves uncontrollable laughter.
Times are tough and, due to his issues
and occupation, Arthur has an even
worse time than most. Over time these
issues bear down on him, shaping his
actions, making him ultimately take on
the persona he is more known as JOKER.
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The story takes place in Gotham City, 1981.
Arthur Fleck works as a clown-for-hire for a company called Ha-Ha’s.
He struggles with severe depression personally but finds some
form of optimism in performing for others and trying to make people
laugh. He is tasked with advertising a store by dancing and
waving a sign board.

On one such occasion,the sign gets snatched bya group ofpunkteens,
forcingArthurto chacethem into a an alley.Theysmashthe sign against his

face and mercilesslykick him while he’s down.

In this era, Gotham is struggling with crime, unemployment,
and poverty. Arthurvisits a social worker for his medication,
as well as his ongoing mental health issues.
On the bus ride home, a small child looks at Arthur.

He makes silly faces that amuse the boy, but his mother
tells Arthur to leave him alone.
Arthur begins to laugh uncontrollably. When the mother
questions him, he hands her a card that explains that he has
a mental condition that causes him to laugh the way
he does.

Arthur later goes to
a children’s hospital to
entertain them as a clown.
He bought his gun with
him, and it falls out on

the floor.

Arthur’s boss latr chews him out for this.
Arthur pleads for a second chance,
but his boss refuse and fires him
on the spot

On the subway train ride home from
Ha-Ha’s in full clown getup, Arthur spots
three drunk young Wall Street types working
for Wayne Enterprises harassing a woman.
Arthur starts laughing unintentionally and

draws the attention of the men,
while the womanwisely flees from the train.

The men approach Arthur and mock him
and his laughter before they start to beat him.

Arthur fights back in self-defense, but they
team up, and beat him to the floor.

Having had enough, Arthur then pulls out
his gun and shoots two of them dead
in self-defense before following the last guy
out of the trains and murdering him on
the stairs.

The news of the three murders spreads,
with some seeing it as an attack on the wealthy,
while others support the act. Thomas Wayne
speaks out and condemns it, labelling the
lower class as ‘Clowns’.

The next day, Arthur cleans out his locker
at Ha-Ha’s but not before confronting Randall
about betraying him and breaking the time
punching machine.
He then leaves, feeling high-spirited and
free.

Seeking hard proof, Arthur goes to Arkham
Asylum and speaks to a clerk, named Carl,
who has a file on Penny, Arthur’s mother.
When Carl says he can’t give Arthurbthe info
he wants, he snatches the file and runs away
to read it.

Hidden in a stairwell, Arthur opens the file and
reads them, finding that Thomas was telling
the truth.
According to the documents, Penny
adopted Arthur after he was found abandoned
as a baby, she abused him, along side her
abusive boyfriend.
With that, he smothers Penny to death.

Arthur realizes that Randall is only seeking
a way to use Arthur in order to cover his
own mistakes and snaps, brutally

stabbing Randall twice in the face before
smashing his head against the wall.

Garry tries to undo the lock on Arthur’s door but
is unable to due to his height. He asks Arthur to
open the door and Arthur immediately agrees,
pausing once to thank Gary for being nice to him.
Arthur kisses Gary on the forehead and lets him go.

Gotham is now overrun by rioting citizens
dressed as clowns after hearing about what
Arthur did. The Waynes leave a movie theatre
to find the chaos in the streets.

Thomas takes his wife Martha
and Bruce into an alley, but one
clown follows them and tells
Thomas he is getting what he
deserves using the punchline
that Arthur used on the Murray
Franklin show. He shoots Thomas
and Martha dead in front of
Bruce.

Sometime later, Arthur is locked in Arkham
Asylum. He laughs after telling this story
and visualizes a young Bruce standing over
his parents in the alley.

He meets a new social worker
and say she wants to tells her a
joke, but she wouldn’t get it
A few minutes later, Arthur then steps
out of the room, leaving a trail of
bloody footprints behind before he is
chased around the orderlines.

Credits

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