{"id":196036,"date":"2019-10-09T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2019-10-09T12:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196036"},"modified":"2019-10-12T05:56:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T05:56:37","slug":"michael-hoffman-the-joker-is-a-work-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=196036","title":{"rendered":"Michael Hoffman – The Joker is a Work of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michael Hoffman \u2013 henrymakow.com Oct 8, 2019<\/h1>\n

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The “Joker” movie of October 2019 is disenchanting and anti-occult.\u00a0If it “inspires” violence it would be no more culpable than Alfred Hitchcock for depicting a cross-dressing homicidal maniac in “Psycho.”<\/strong><\/h5>\n
“It is art and has validity on that basis alone, a cinematic document about one rejected and an oppressed person from our nation’s past, a kind of everyman who could be anyone of us if we were so unlucky, and it necessarily foreshadows our future, should America choose to continue on its grossly materialistic, fantastically cruel, mass abortionist, Christ-less path.”<\/h5>\n
(Warning: this essay reveals some aspects [spoilers] of the “Joker” movie that viewers who intend to see it may not wish to read)\u00a0<\/em><\/h5>\n

“Joker” Movie:\u00a0Mental illness and misfortune in 1970s America\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/h1>\n

By Michael Hoffman — <\/strong>(Abridged by henrymakow.com)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
“Perhaps the bleakest assertion of ‘Joker,’ is the one that’s hardest to disprove: that the ghastly world (the Joker) inhabits, and by extension ours, is the one we deserve.”<\/em>\u00a0— John Wenzel<\/h5>\n
The “Joker” movie of October 2019 <\/strong>is altogether different [from the joker portrayed by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.]<\/strong> It is disenchanting and anti-occult (with one possible exception noted below). If it “inspires” violence it would be no more culpable than Alfred Hitchcock for depicting a cross-dressing homicidal maniac in “Psycho.”<\/h5>\n
The protagonist in “Joker” is Arthur Fleck, played by Joaquin Phoenix, a mentally ill man whose every benevolent act is misunderstood. He attempts to overcome his affliction but the circumstances of his life and chosen occupation (clowning and standup comedy) conspire to obstruct his intentions.<\/h5>\n
There is no depiction of “random mass shooting” in this movie<\/strong><\/em>. The only time multiple people are shot is in one scene where Arthur is viciously assaulted by three drunken junior executives in suits on a subway train. The beating they administer is brutal enough to paralyze or kill him, had it continued. It does not continue because Arthur saves his own life by drawing his revolver and shooting all three of his attackers. Only because he is wearing clown makeup (as part of his employment),\u00a0does the media exploit the incident and sensationalize the shooter<\/em>\u00a0as a clown-killer who murdered innocent bystanders.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n

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In contrast to the rest of the corporate media, Michael Hoffman has high praise for the Joker, which he writes, may foreshadow America’s future if it carries on its present path <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196036"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196062,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196036\/revisions\/196062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}