Antisocial Personality Disorder In Batman

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When someone is very angry they either go for a walk, isolate themselves from others, or vent to someone about their problems. They would not go terrorizing the public harming innocent people. Someone having a problem is called antisocial personality disorder which sometimes can be describe as sociopathy. According to Landfield, “Antisocial personality disorder is a condition that describes a constellation of interpersonal, emotional, and behavioral functioning marked by deceit, lack of guilt and empathy, and callous disregard for the welfare of others” (par 3). The Joker from the film Batman is a psychotic anarchist who brings chaos to the people to find Batman, and this is an example of antisocial personality disorder; the director of the …show more content…
One film device used in this scene is up lighting. This scene used an up-lightning device which produces a hard-upward shadow with low lights and it’s used in this film to show the cop thought that the Joker was dead. It shows that the Joker is psychotic to play dead and then wake up excited to kill everyone around him. Another film device used in this scene is sound effects. As he made it seem he was dead, the sound effects that were going on was making the audience feel something bad was going to happen. The aggression shown in the seen from the sound effects portrays that the Joker is being very playful yet …show more content…
Close-up shot in filmmaking which tightly frames a person or an object of the standard shots used regularly with medium shots or long shots. It’s used in this film as the camera gets close to the police office as he stood up then went to the Joker to the bombs that he has in his jacket. This film device portrays to impulsivity to show the Joker has no remorse or common sense that bystanders are around him and could harm his self just as well. Another film device used in this scene is lightning. Lights is lit to look natural and usually involves having lights placed high and low all around the set to cut or drop shadows. In this scene, it’s used to prove how everyone looked and reacted to the Joker when he flashed the bomb out of his jacket and surprised everyone. This device also shows how his impulsivity was shown on not caring whose around on harming people because things are not going his

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