Book Coach Corner: Joker: Folie à Deux
Background: What Is Book Coach Corner?
Book Coach Corner is a blog series that allows me (your neighborhood-friendly book coach) to look at books, TV shows, and movies and dissect them in terms of story structure. There will be spoilers and some may posts not make sense if you haven’t seen/read the work, so wanted to give that heads up.
Those are the details. This entry explores Joker 2, a film which has received widespread disdain, but I thought was brilliant.
Synopsis
Joker: Folie à Deux is the continuation of Arthur Fleck’s Joker origin story. After being arrested and institutionalized, he finds hope and inspiration when he falls in love with a fellow inmate, Lee Quinzel.
Quick Thoughts
Before seeing it, I read how much both critics and audiences hated this movie. Despite this, I was happy to check it out: I loved the original, think Lady Gaga is awesome, and was down to see how they merged a horror-like superhero movie with a bouncy classic musical.
As the film began, I did think the musical numbers were really annoying, but as they took on nuance, I loved what was going on.
The film became a story about stories, and as a story nerd, I am a little bit…
