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Arthur Fleck covers his face in makeup. He lathers his tongue in white paint. He encircles his eyes with a verdant, venomous green. He becomes a clown, a prankster, an anarchist.
Society made him that way, or so it would seem. The jovial stand-up comedian, who takes care of his ailing mother, slowly breaks down from bullying — from being the butt of the joke. Always the punchline.
In the trailer, his psychologist tells him it’ll be their last appointment. It’s the last time they’ll meet. He says she just doesn’t get it. He says she asks the same question. How’s your job? Are you having negative thoughts?
“All I have are negative thoughts,” he confesses to his psychologist.
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