Analyzing The Movie 'Joker'

Relevant Scene I decided to choose a combination of scenes from the movie to show the progression of the character and to fully make my point across. The first scene, was when Alfred started to tell Bruce about his time in Burma. He spoke about a thief who was stealing jewels and how they were looking for him, when one day, he [Alfred] saw a kid playing with a jewel, and learned that the thief was just throwing away the jewels he stole. Bruce asks why would the thief steal them in the first place, and Alfred explains that the thief, like the Joker is a man who he does not understand fully either, and tells him how some men are not looking for anything logical, that they cannot "be bought, bullied, or negotiated with, as they just want …show more content…
There are many parts that hold as precursor to other parts in the movie. For example, Alfred's Burma story is depicted in the movie by Joker's stunt to kill Lao. He places Lao on top of a tower of money, the same money he stole in the beginning of the movie, and then sets that money on fire. So it is seen that the Joker cannot be understood, that there is no logical reason for what he does, completely opposite of how the Batman operates. The Batman uses prior knowledge, clear thoughts, and control to fight the Joker. And through every meeting between the two, you see neither one is fully able to overcome the other and defeat each other, because they are one and the same, and to defeat the other would mean to lose a part of themselves. The Batman is the conscious self, the self that is shown to the society, the self that others in society want to be like. And the Joker is the inferior part of the person, the unconscious, the part that one chooses to ignore because of the fear it may cause to know. Bruce Wayne considers Batman indestructible, which is why he cuts Batman out of feeling any emotion and forces him to be a logical person. And the Joker forces him to break those rules and face his fear. The Joker has a clear insight into Batman, he knows what makes him tick, he knows his weaknesses, because the Batman and Joker are one. They are each other's opposites but each other's halves as well. What is interesting to note is that at the end of the movie when Batman, chooses to let the Joker live, the Joker is upside down, where the Batman is standing up correcting, the final depiction of how they are opposites, but also part of each other. Throughout the movie, the Joker stresses how the Batman completes him, and every time the Batman ignores the Joker's comments. The Joker is