Arthur's head injury in childhood is assumed after the description of ongoing childhood abuse. The audience sees Arthur mugged and beat up by a group of young men at the beginning of the movie, which might have further impacted his existing TBI.
Arthur was brought up by a foster mother and did not have a father figure. The foster mother herself describes him growing up as a fun and kind boy, but later he was abused and beaten by his adoptive parents and even had a severe head injury.
Crucially, however, the film reveals that as a child, Arthur was the target of constant physical abuse by his mother's boyfriend, leading to a traumatic brain injury that likely contributed to his mental condition (1:14:00 - 1:15:30).
Joker, also known as Arthur Fleck, suffers from many symptoms commonly associated with brain injury. In the film, it is noted that he was beaten over the head by his mother's boyfriend, a likely cause of TBI.
He suffers from fits of laughter that occur at socially inappropriate times. He also suffers from psychotic symptoms with visual delusions. We learn through the film that he was a beaten child, psychologically and physically abused with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Arthur, now known as the criminal Joker, ends up incarcerated at Arkham State Hospital after being tied to multiple murders over the past few weeks, which led to riots breaking out in Gotham City against the rich.
In the move, Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck, who has Pseudobulbar affect, which isn't a mental illness, but a neurological impairment resulting from a brain injury. It causes people laugh or cry in exaggerated or inappropriate ways, so it can look like a mood disorder.
Joaquin Phoenix is a favorite to win an Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Joker. To get into the character of Arthur Fleck, Phoenix lost 52 pounds for the role by eating a restrictive diet that was supervised by a doctor.
The most common story involves him falling into a tank of chemical waste that bleaches his skin white and turns his hair green and lips bright red; the resulting disfigurement drives him insane.
The Titan Disease is an extremely potent and deadly blood disease that originated from Dr. Penelope Young's research into the super-steroid, Venom and its powerful successor, the Titan Formula. This disease would ultimately claim the life of the Joker.
Joker was not autistic, because he seemed to deeply desire social connection (most of his fantasies were surrounding connecting with others).
The character of Arthur Fleck is an authentic and well-researched depiction of a man with borderline personality disorder.
Much like her son, Penny suffered from an unspecified mental illness. She was responsible for letting her former boyfriend abuse Arthur in his childhood and was temporarily sent to the Arkham State Hospital for unsolicited claims.
The condition known as pseudobulbar affect (PBA) is characterized by brief uncontrollable outbursts of crying or laughter that are incongruent with the patient's feelings of sadness or joy.
Origins. When the Joker became obsessing over destroying the Bat-Family, he decided to arrange for his face to be surgically removed. According to the Joker, he did this to symbolize how even without his, "Mask" he was still the joker where-as Batman's Robins and Bat-Girls' identities were only mask-deep.
1) It's to show how escape has become hard for Arthur. He wants to shut himself away from the world completely, and the fridge provides a quick and easy way to do just that, but only temporarily. 2.) Metaphorically Gotham is presented to us as a cold place, in which whatever the character does he's punished for.
"It wasn't an apple a day," he said. "No, you've also got lettuce and steamed green beans." Such a vast reduction in his daily calorie intake meant that Phoenix was able to drop 52 pounds, all the while resisting temptation in the form of Joker director Todd Phillips.
Fleck has PBA, a condition with uncontrollable laughing and crying outbursts. His sickly thin body is the result of the medication he takes. "I don't believe that if you fall into a vat of acid your skin turns white and your hair turns green," Phillips said.
He had a compassionate mother/ son relationship with his mother Penny, until he found out the latter had lied to him and abused him as a child. In the beginning, Arthur appeared to be a kind yet troubled man with a forgotten dark past.
Following DC Comics 2011 relaunch of several of its comic series for The New 52, Detective Comics #1 (November 2011) sees the Joker captured by Batman and sent to Arkham Asylum; unbeknownst to Batman, this is part of the Joker's plan to meet with the villain Dollmaker, who surgically removes Joker's face at his request ...
Personality Disorder, specifically, Histrionic Personality Disorder plays a key part in Harley Quinn's life. People with Histrionic Personality Disorder are “pervasive and excessive emotionally and display attention-seeking behavior” (Bornstein 1998).
Best known as the former girlfriend of the Joker, Harley suffers from multiple personalities, homicidal tendencies, Stockholm syndrome and possibly “shared psychotic disorder.” A survivor of domestic violence (not surprising, given her former beau), she has murdered grown-ups and kids.
Jack Napier, also known as the Joker, is a fictional character introduced in the 1989 superhero film Batman, directed by Tim Burton. Primarily portrayed by Jack Nicholson, the character was based on the DC Comics supervillain the Joker.
Rather he actually wants to corrupt Batman by causing greater tragedies in his life so that he can get Batman to kill him or make Batman like him.
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