What are the odds of a people who bring out their innermost dark features which surfaces slowly in the time of adversity? or Are we taught to be nice and not exploit them even at worst times? Do we stand by moral and principles today or ride with those emotions at the whim of a spark?
One could manifest all their energies into a complete madhatter or the progressing Absolem while travelling down the rabbit hole of life. I noticed a stark similarity between the movies Parasite and The Joker exists, Rejection. We all have faced rejection by one way or another in our life, so what’s the big deal with these guys – Arthur and Kim to take another man’s life? Maybe it’s not a simple refusal after all, its social ostracism. The very existence of them is denied, Arthur’s laugh making anyone go inane, the smell of Kim that crawls inside the very skin of Parks and repels, even at their intimate moment.
I empathized with both Arthur and Kim from the opening scene, Arthur living on funds and Kims in a filthy basement when some random guy urinates into their windows regularly. The dark satire reaches its threshold of poverty when Kim’s basement is flooded and Kim’s daughter casually starts to smoke sitting on the toilet when it gushes of sewage water. The dark psychological thriller emancipates the dark abyss of inexplicable human behavior which experiences that first sweet taste of vengeance. Life unfolds in both movies in a mysterious ways of how Kim tells his son “The kind of plan which doesn’t fail is no plan and you can’t go wrong with no plans” after the basement and subway incidents.
The riches in both movies are shown as how far they cannot compassionate with a fellow human being and out of reality like the five-minute fame craving celebrities of lockdown. In pursuit of retaliation Kim couldn’t stop himself when he sees Mr.Park who couldn’t resist showing a disgusted face of the smell of basement and Arthur couldn’t stop himself when the Wall Street guys starts harassing him and calls him freak/clown. The spillage of blood everywhere in Quentin Tarantino movie is too different from Todd Philips/Bong Joon-Ho. When the former doesn’t even looks real, latter traumatize you. One being Phoenix/Kim bringing their feel-good hormones inside us who loves them for what they did and another like me asks a million questions of how a justice can be served in such a way, I slowly started to despise both. And there Phoenix and Kim scores by bringing the impact in distinct variants of viewers. Both films are worth an Oscar.
But what was the spectator’s response to the movie Joker? Ruchir Joshi in his column wrote the audience reaction– they literally sprang up from seats and applauded the bloody violence, which shows a distorted society we live in. The society which fizzes mephitic fumes of hatred around social media, call names each other and quickly raze one’s character because they are politically/ideologically/religiously different.
In all worldliness, I can assure anyone that people who are immoral are difficult to connect with. Other difference doesn’t even matter. You can absolutely love any person, without holding to any prejudices and not clouding the thoughts with judgments. After all everything in world is relative, it’s a kurukshetra war between our heart and mind daily. Easier way is to trick and manipulate our mind into waiting for the right moment or to let the time pass.
I despised myself when I felt a relief of judgment for the convicts of Nirbhaya was hanged, when I was happy at the ending of the movie ‘three billboards outside ebbing missourie” and appreciated the verdict in the movie ‘A Time to Kill’. All three have a connection with rape and violence committed on a budding adult, teenager and a kid respectively. For even the very wise cannot see all ends, who am I to wish for someone’s end?
And what are we becoming when we start typing that hate message we want to share with the world? Let go those vices, March Hare from Alice in Wonderland has a remedy to it “If you don’t think, then you shouldn’t talk!”
