Now Here's Something I Would Not Normally Say: Please Go Watch the 2019 Joker Movie
The Joker movie is not an incel movie or an "angry straight white male" movie. It's a film about class consciousness and alienation under capitalism, especially late stage capitalism. The fact that it is receiving a lot of backlash from Forbes (and other elite publications like it), "alt"-rightists, and 'social justice warriors' (sjw's) alike makes it all the more intriguing. It most definitely is not the "Hollywoke"-kind of film that is, figuratively speaking, force-fed to the masses. Examples of "Hollywoke" films include those found in the Disney-owned Marvel Cinematic Universe, the post-Lucas Star Wars films (also Disney-owned, and sans George Lucas' input), and the 2016 Ghostbusters movie. It also most certainly is not an appeal to white nationalists and/or hardline reactionaries. And so here we have a refreshing cinematic piece of art. Watch Jason Unruhe's review of the film in the video above. (Warning: the re...