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The Symbolic World

65 - How The Joker Smashes Our Political Narratives

The Symbolic World

Jonathan Pageau

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.8824 Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Support this channel: thesymbolicworld.com/support/ patreon: www.patreon.com/pageauvideos subscribestar: www.subscribestar.com/jonathan-pageau paypal: www.paypal.me/JonathanPageau The Joker movie has been causing outrage in mainstream media channels, and it is not clear why at first glance, and so I break down some of the narrative structures to show how the movie smashes the Overton window by constantly breaking the expected political narrative. Original Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H74BbcTs6xs My links: website: www.thesymbolicworld.com facebook: www.facebook.com/TheSymbolicWorld/ twitter: twitter.com/pageaujonathan The podcast was edited by Justin Ward.

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0:00.0

So the Joker movie just came out. And to be honest, I wasn't going to see this movie because I'm not

0:07.0

watching that many movies these days, but because of the insane press that it was getting, because

0:12.5

of the fact that everybody was afraid of the movie, that everybody was speaking ill, especially

0:17.6

in the mainstream media about this movie, I thought, okay, there's something else going on here

0:23.1

and I have to see it to understand why this particular movie is making people freak out.

0:30.7

And so that's mostly what the movie is going to be about. I'm going to go through the Joker movie

0:34.5

and I'm going to show you why the reason people are so afraid of the Joker movie and I'm going to show you why the reason people are so

0:39.6

afraid of the Joker movie has much less to do with the story in terms of the

0:45.8

violence or the way that the Joker acts but it has more to do that in the

0:51.3

very structure of the storytelling it breaks apart the political narratives that have been

0:58.0

prevalent in America, and it smashes the Over. Welcome to the symbolic world. So if you haven't seen this movie, please don't watch this video because it's going to be so full of spoilers, you can't believe. I'm not going to spare you at all.

1:41.2

I'm going to go through all the elements of the movie and I'm going to show you how the decisions made by the screenwriter and the director are there to break down

1:51.4

the prevalent narratives that we find in our culture. And that is why the movie is so dangerous

1:58.6

to the mainstream, to the establishment, to all of this. And it has

2:04.5

much less to do with the violence. Although it is a very violent movie and it is horrifying. But,

2:11.6

you know, the movie, It just came out two weeks ago. And so why is it that a movie about a killer clown that kills children

2:20.3

does not bother people, but somehow this movie about a man who becomes crazy and starts to

2:29.4

kill people, why is it that this movie is bothersome? And it has to do with a manner in which it breaks down

2:37.1

the current narrative so I'm going to go through the movie and I'm going to uh this is not the usual

2:42.1

way I do things but because the movie just came out uh no time for editing no time for uh fancy

2:49.0

splicing in the scenes I'm just going to go through the elements of the movie and break it down to help you see why it is doing what it is doing.

2:59.3

So if you've seen the movie, you will know everything about it.

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