What parts of the movie do you feel were in his head?
Which parts were real, and which were imagined?
shareThe big riot at the end/Waynes’ death. The escape from the cop car seems too much like a typical action movie/fantasy and we never see how he was recaptured. I think after he was arrested on the set of Murray’s show, he was taken straight to jail.
The murder of Thomas and Martha happened during the riot. When it cuts to Arthur in the hospital, he pictures Bruce standing over his parents’ bodies and that’s when he said he was thinking if a joke. He was imagining it.
Over time since I've seen the film (a month), I've started to think that the riot at the end could have actually just been people fleeing from the subway and/or buildings because of the giant rats in Gotham mentioned on the news. Arthur imagined them as all protesters, that is him being taken in but the rest pure imagination. One of the reasons I'd love to see a Ratcatcher movie set in the exact same time-frame as Joker, would love to see it all from another perspective, like I said elsewhere could even see Joker in the distance like in the phone booth as the giant rat runs by.
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