// I apologize for the paragraph fracturing,
// but i think this style fits this message
// if you disagree, glue them as you see fit.


The hype is over. The competition between the left and the right who condemns The Joker louder has resolved in a tie.
The politically minded people tired themselves and went back on their rails. May I be heard now?

listen,

YOU MISSED THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE JOKER

all of it.

completely.

This hilarious spectacle of all political factions condemning The Joker as a creation of their enemies -- doesn't it tell you something?
All minds obsessed with politics failed to associate with the message of the movie -- all of them.
The Joker expressed no recognizable political... template (I struggled here choosing a word).
The Joker is completely APOLITICAL! So perfectly apolitical that it infuriated all factions --
political minds raged at the piece that does not fit their holes. (more than one pun intended)

The Joker does not care about your political agenda, and does not criticize your views, nor does it criticize the views of your enemies.

This is a movie about the american culture of smile.

Simple as that.

And horrible as it is.

It showed you the devastation of the souls you americans inflict upon yourselves with your mandatory sincere smile.

YES! BOTH MANDATORY AND SINCERE.

Because "my boy is simply a happy boy and likes to smile".

The mother is an allegory of the american culture.

The Joker is the allegory of the american people.

The chaos on the streets not even a revolution, but pure chaos, is not a political message for you, it is an allegory of your state of mind.

In the scene with the little boy at the gates it became obvious that The Joker lives through the compulsion of happiness.
He felt necessary to inflict upon the child one of the physical acts his mother inflicted upon himself.
It was a mere shadow of the corpus of horrors he suffered behind the camera.

The scene of reading the mother's medical history makes it completely clear beyond any doubt that she tortured him to smile.
Her reply in the interview (rewatch it, seriously) tell you everything if you put it into the proper perspective:
it is said by a sadistic paranoid person -- this phrase is textbook degree typical for mentally ill people trying to bend their victims to fit their delusions.

It does not matter whether he was adopted or native, a bastard, or legit, a son of a millionaire, or a nobody --
by making it unclear the movie tells us that the culture of smile does not discriminate its victims, everybody has to smile.

According to The Joker, your America is not politically unwell, it is MENTALLY ILL.
And it is severely and dangerously ill, and it is being ill for a very very long time by now, far longer than you prefer to believe.
And for the reasons you can't even perceive, let alone analyze or condemn.
Because you ARE a joker, a victim who successfully repressed your childhood memories.
But you are an unsuccessful joker, you failed to recover the medical records, you even failed to act your pain out.
This is why The Joker angers you somewhere on the subconscious background.