People, I think, are gravitating too much around the notion that there is going to be some other 'Aurora shooting'-type event to do with this 'Joker' flick. For whatever purpose these conspiracy theories can come up with.
But to me that is not even the main sinister aspect of this recent, indeed current, media scam. As Lionel Nation recently pointed out, the legal definition of 'lying' is when someone tells untruths in order to deliberately deceive. 'Joker,' the movie, is a scam.
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| Something beautiful for you to look at, unlike 'Joker,' which is ugly and illiterate. This is called the New York Cafe, but it is in Budapest. |
Movies, as in the visual telling of some fictional story, are entertainment; and 'fiction' is not lying meant to deceive.
We're all grown up adults, and we are quite capable of handling the sophisticated but quite normal trails of the human mind in its manner of well, simply being and having fun, I suppose.
Well anyway, we'll see what happens. Whether this thing just fades into the usual history of Hollywood movies... ...as many do.
Although, just for academic interest, let's compare this movie alongside something say, from pre- the big, Eighties' stock market Crash.
Have you noticed that in order to be topical and to capture mass audiences of the day, movies quite typically utilize obvious images of obtaining lifestyles that ordinary people are aware of or think really are what is going on in the society around them.
'9 1/2 Weeks' was about a markets arbitrageur, 'Wall Street' with Michael Douglas was about a literal Wall Street entrepreneur and the goings-on with that sort of lifestyle.
The first of those two movies was made well before the actual Crash - it finished being written as a screenplay based on Ingeborg Day's true-to-her-New York-life autobiographical novel written in the early Eighties, and was fully completed as a movie in 1984 but released only in 1986. It made a total loss inside the USA losing more than half the film's production cost - no one inside American apparently liked it at all; audiences gave poor reviews and people stayed away. The 'theory' given as to why, is that censors too heavily edited it for American release.
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| Ingeborg Day - she wrote '9 1/2 Weeks' |
However right from the minute it was released elsewhere around the world it zoomed ahead to a box office smash and something of a cult movie even to this day.
I'm not sure many people have ever really, perhaps outside of a few 'salons' of intellectual people in Munich or god I dunno, Sydney... ...discussed this, but '9 1/2 Weeks' is a highly highly culturally sophisticated work, and far from just being some simple mass appeal 'erotica.' But it isn't something the modern American standard of education is going to be able to cope with.
To this day I don't think that many people realize '9 1/2 Weeks' is the pre-cursor, the true 'ancestor' as it were, to Kubrick's EWS. You see, the signs and symbols and indicators inside the movie are all there, relating to some kind of 'clique' of really quite dark figures of moneyed and political power - but many of those 'signs' will fly right over the heads of most modern-day viewers. In fact, if anything, there is even more of a sinister, quite satanic sexual undercurrent going in the movie, compared to what you see rather obviously in 'Eyes Wide Shut.'
All these movies - and maybe even including this week's release, 'Joker' - reflect real life events on a grand scale: 'Wall Street' foreshadowed the big collapse on the equities market, and 'Joker' is telling us that the public has gone insane and that everything is about to get even more dystopian than it already is; but in some 'grand' way.
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| Every single one of the pieces of 'furniture' in this scene is a highly valuable classic of major industrial design artists and masters. There is Le Corbusier, there is Cassina Perriand LC4, and a number of others. Day was, of course, in real life an art dealer in New York. |
See the secret of this move ('9 1/2 Weeks') is to do with the original author - Ingeborg Day. She was not exactly a 'Lebensborn' as far as anyone has said, but she was from out of a very special 'high cultural education program' run by the Nazis. And she was, most certainly, both an art historian as well as a design and industrial social history expert. I could, in theory' 'teach' some course on this, but no one would pay enough and what would be the point anyway - people would end up trying to 'walk on rice paper without leaving marks,' etc.
You're better off realizing that Ingeborg Day and Virginia Woolf, um, let's just say, have a lot in common. And I select my words quite deliberately.
'They' - the weirdos in Hollywood now - are hoping their predictive programming is going to be reflected in the public; they are wrong.
