This is my Joker. Unironically.
This film came out seven years before Joker did and it's pretty much a triumph over it in almost all regards, built upon the same themes and playing on the same sense of tension, unease, and fractured reality. The way that Potrykus focuses the action on Joshua Burge as Trevor really helps to sell the character's mental state in a way that makes him pitiable while still antisocial and off-putting. There is a level of empathy granted to him that understands the struggles of the very same desires of Arthur Fleck in Joker but in a way that doesn't need to gussy itself up in the aesthetics and settings of other films. The more modern-day setting is fine enough as is to explore the alienation of life because that alienation of life exists in the modern and the modern is boring, dull, and unexciting, which Potrykus knows how to wield like a goddamn weapon
This is my Joker. Unironically.
This film came out seven years before Joker did and it's pretty much a triumph over it in almost all regards, built upon the same themes and playing on the same sense of tension, unease, and fractured reality. The way that Potrykus focuses the action on Joshua Burge as Trevor really helps to sell the character's mental state in a way that makes him pitiable while still antisocial and off-putting. There is a level of empathy granted to him that understands the struggles of the very same desires of Arthur Fleck in Joker but in a way that doesn't need to gussy itself up in the aesthetics and settings of other films. The more modern-day setting is fine enough as is to explore the alienation of life because that alienation of life exists in the modern and the modern is boring, dull, and unexciting, which Potrykus knows how to wield like a goddamn weapon
