Chapter 552 "The Joker" (Pure plot) (6k)
(This chapter is all about the plot of the movie. Everyone is booked when they are not interested. It is better to skip it directly.)
Gotham City, workers transporting garbage have been on strike for 18 days, and countless garbage piles are on the street.
The city is sick.
Many people cannot find jobs, and many shops are on the verge of bankruptcy.
Arthur is a clown actor who relies on company jobs to perform for people to make a living.
This time, his mission is to advertise a store that is about to go bankrupt and clear the stock.
No one paid attention to the crowd coming and going on the street.
Everyone has no money in his hands, no matter how cheap you are, it is useless.
Although the effect was not significant, Arthur still performed very carefully.
But Gotham City has always been simple and simple, and several gangsters stole the billboard from Arthur's hand.
Arthur chased after him, but was beaten and the billboard broke.
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In fact, Arthur is not an ordinary person. He was locked up in the hospital because of a mental illness.
Now he also receives regular psychological counseling and counseling provided by the government.
The psychologist advised him to write interesting memes or ideas he thought about in his daily life in a notebook to relieve his condition.
This suggestion is related to his dream.
He has always wanted to be a talk show actor.
The favorite thing I like in my life is the evening talk show "The Franklin Show" and the host Murray Franklin.
The interesting stories and memes in the notes are his accumulation.
For this reason, he often went to bars, observed professional talk show actors there, learned how they spoke, and recorded them.
The doctor looked at the records in his notebook and saw that it said, "I hope my death is more valuable than my life." He didn't care.
She didn't care about the dream Arthur mentioned, she just wanted to know if Arthur's condition had improved.
Arthur said that now that society has become like this, it would be better to lock him up.
Or prescribe some more effective medicine for him.
Finally, Arthur left with the medicine.
On the way back, a black child kept staring at him.
Arthur grimaced and wanted to make the child laugh, but was warned by the child's mother.
At this time Arthur burst into laughter.
This is the symptom of his illness: a laugh without warning, uncontrollable.
This will cause him to not even speak. "Is it funny?" the black mother asked.
As he laughed, Arthur shook his head silently and handed him a small card with a record:
"Please forgive me, I am sick. This disease often makes me laugh, but it does not mean my mood."
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When he went back tonight, Arthur and his mother watched "The Franklin Show".
My mother used to be an employee of Wayne Group, but she had been fired long ago.
She often wrote to Wayne and had not received any reply.
Arthur was puzzled and felt that such top-level people would not care about their life or death.
But my mother believed that the situation was so bad now that only rich people like Thomas Wayne could save them.
When watching "The Franklin Show", Arthur did not know whether he was recalling or fantasizing about Murray himself who he had met at the recording site of the show.
When Murray was selecting the audience, he clicked Arthur to listen to him tell the past.
"Since I have been carrying the heavy responsibility of my family, but I don't feel it is hard.
My mother always tells me that no matter how hard life is, I must show a smile.
My mission is to bring laughter to the world."
Murray then called Arthur to the stage and said something encouragement and appreciation to him.
Arthur was very happy at that time. He felt in a trance that if he had a father, he would have encouraged and praised him like this.
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In the fitting room, Arthur changed his work clothes, revealing his hunched and blue back.
Collegemate Lan Dao heard about Arthur being beaten and gave him a pistol.
"This way you can protect yourself," he said.
As a mentally ill, Arthur could not have a gun, so he wanted to refuse. "Don't worry, no one will know. As a big brother, I will protect you." Arthur accepted.
In the office, the boss mentioned the customer complaining about the billboard being broken.
He didn't care about the reason, nor did he care whether Arthur was bullied or not.
"Either return the brand or deduct money, you can choose it yourself."
Arthur could only vent his vent to the garbage dump on the way back.
On the way back, there was a long staircase coming home. Every time he walked this road, he felt very tired.
Today was particularly difficult.
As usual, I opened the mailbox and there was nothing inside, so my mother probably couldn't get a reply.
As a result of the bad situation these days, Arthur was not very happy.
Fortunately, while taking the elevator, he saw the female neighbor next door smile at him.
As still joked, he made a gun with his hand and pointed it on her own forehead.
"Bang~"
This made him smile from the bottom of his heart at a rare moment.
Because I couldn't afford to hire a nurse, Arthur had to bathe his mother himself, which was already a daily routine.
The two talked about the future.
Arthur felt that even though he knew there would be no result, he might as well stop writing.
"I will become an excellent comedian, perform in a bigger club, make a lot of money, and no longer worry about me."
The mother was surprised, "But why do you think so, happiness (the nickname given to Arthur by my mother)? Isn't it funny to be a comedian?"
Life is already so hard, why do you think you can make others happy?
Sentenced.
In the evening, Arthur took out the revolver given by Blue Road.
Holding it, a strange feeling seemed to surge in my heart.
He couldn't help dancing.
According to accidental in the middle, he pulled the trigger, but fortunately he was covered up with the sound of the TV.
In a panic, he liked this sense of power very much.
The next day, Arthur quietly followed the female neighbor.
I learned that her name is Sophie, she is a single mother who works in the bank.
At night, Sophie knocked on Arthur's door because she found the daytime stalking, but she didn't care too much.
"I know it's you, I thought you were going to rob the house."
Arthur said, "I have a gun, why don't I go tomorrow?"
Sophie couldn't help laughing, "You're so humorous, Arthur."
Arthur's heart was warm and he laughed.
He invites the other party to watch his performance when he has time.
Sophie nodded.
Life suddenly got better.
Another day, Arthur performed at the Children's Hospital, but an accident happened halfway through.
The gun fell out, frightening the children.
He didn't even have time to take off his makeup, so he quickly called the boss to explain.
Say this is just a performance prop.
But the boss said you should stop talking nonsense.
Lan Dao had already told Arthur about having a gun, and said that the gun was bought by Arthur from him.
The boss fired Arthur directly.
Life finally improved, but immediately fell to the bottom.
He didn't understand why Lan Dao betrayed him.
A huge feeling of deception surged in Arthur's heart, and he rushed into the phone booth glass with force.
It's not just the glass that breaks, but his heart.
On the subway home, three drunk men in suits were teasing a woman.
Arthur didn't want to intervene, but at this time he had an attack and couldn't help laughing.
The woman took the opportunity to leave.
I see good things being disturbed.
And a clown dared to laugh at them!
The three drunk men transferred the teasing object to Arthur.
Arthur wanted to take out the card to explain his illness, but the bag had been taken away and the clown hood on his head was also taken away.
Then he was fucked over and the three of them beat and kicked.
Arthur was almost powerless to resist, which was almost the same as the billboard was robbed.
The subway lights flashed, and Arthur was beaten while laughing.
Suddenly, he took out his gun and knocked down two people in succession.
The last one escaped from the carriage and was chased by Arthur to the stairs and beaten to death.
It's all clean.
After the murder, Arthur fled to the nearby bathroom.
Close the door, Arthur danced for the second time, looking very intoxicated.
In the mirror, the clown's makeup is very conspicuous, as if the clown is dancing.
Afterwards, Arthur's mentality changed.
He found Sophie and kissed her wildly, and Sophie was half-suppressed.
That night, Arthur grew up.
The incident of clown shooting hooligans spread in the newspaper.
Arthur returned to the unit to pack up his things and could hear his colleagues discussing it.
My colleagues didn't care about Arthur's fire.
Some people also mocked him whether he wanted to commit suicide by swallowing a gun in the hospital. Only his colleagues in the dwarf were concerned about his current situation.
When leaving the company, Arthur changed the slogan "Don't forget to smile" on the wall to "Don't smile".
It's too painful to work hard to get upward, how can you laugh?
The shooting of the subway clown is gradually getting worse.
The three people killed were employees of Wayne Group.
Thomas Wayne spoke to his employees on TV, "Although I have no personal relationship with them, I know that they are all good people."
But the people at the bottom are on the side of the clown.
Thomas Wayne: "Gotham City has fallen. I will run for mayor and make Gotham great again."
Reporter: "Eyewitnesses said the suspect was wearing a clown mask. What do you think about this?"
Thomas Wayne: "I think it's reasonable. Only cowards will hide behind the mask.
That's a clown who is jealous of others happier than him. We successful people who start from scratch look down on such a waste."
Arthur smoked a cigarette and watched Wayne's speech on TV, and couldn't help but smile disdainfully.
In the cramped room, Arthur received psychological counseling again.
The psychologist told him that the city had cut spending.
This kind of psychological counseling room with welfare nature will not be available again in the future. "People don't care about people like you, nor do they care about people like me," said the psychologist.
The only place where suffering can be told disappeared, Arthur accepted it calmly, as if he had become accustomed to it all.
More and more people in the city began to imitate clowns, and the reputation of murderous clowns became more and more famous.
The good news is that Arthur has been closer to his dream recently.
He received an invitation to try a talk show at the club.
Although I couldn't control my laughter in the middle, the performance went smoothly.
At night, Arthur couldn't help but be curious and opened the letter his mother wrote to Thomas Wayne.
In the letter, the mother mentioned Thomas Wayne and her underground relationship and mentioned their common son Arthur.
Arthur refused to believe such a thing, and he asked his mother excitedly whether it was true.
Mother admitted it.
The next day, he came to Wayne Manor.
In front of the iron gate of the manor, I met Thomas's youngest son Bruce Wayne.
A iron gate separates two people, as if they are separated by two societies.
Bruce, as a child of a wealthy family, doesn't look happy at all.
Arthur then helped him "smile" through the door.
We poor people are unhappy, how can you, as rich people, be unhappy?
The housekeeper rushed over and pulled Wayne away.
Arthur told the housekeeper that he was going to see Thomas Wayne, and the relationship between his mother and Thomas was revealed in his words.
But the housekeeper said sarcastically that Arthur's mother had paranoid disease and that nothing had happened between her and Thomas.
Another round of blows.
When I got home, I wanted to say something to my mother, but I learned that she had a stroke. The TV in the ward was playing "The Franklin Show".
However, on TV, Murray actually mocked Arthur's performance some time ago.
It seems to be regarded as a joke.
Arthur looked at this scene with a serious expression. The warmth of the past became a joke at this moment.
I lost my job and my mother was hospitalized, and now even my hobbies have become the target of making fun of others.
Arthur lay on the bed, holding the quilt, curling up like a baby.
He felt that he could not hold it back.
On TV, a "clown storm" is setting off in the entire Gotham City.
Since Thomas Wayne called the loser a clown, the city's hatred of wealth exploded instantly.
Everyone took to the streets and marched in protest with clown masks.
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Arthur looked at the scene on TV with a strange expression.
But no matter what, he was recognized.
The place of the parade is at Wayne Hall.
Arthur changed into the synagogue and finally met Thomas Wayne in the bathroom.
The housekeeper said nothing wrong, Thomas is indeed not Arthur's father.
Not only that, Arthur was not even his mother's biological son, but adopted him.
Arthur's mother was once detained in Arkham Mental Hospital due to mental problems, where there was proven information.
Arthur couldn't accept it, he felt everyone was lying.
He was just trying to seek a little warmth, or a father's hug.
So the other party was just insulting himself and his mother Penny.
Arthur laughed sadly again.
Yes, Arthur's laugh often occurs when there are negative emotions such as tension, sadness, loss, etc.
Thomas left like a psychopath.
After getting home, Arthur stuffed himself into the refrigerator, trying to calm down.
The phone rang, and it was called by the "Franklin Show".
It seems that it was because the clips of Murray complaining or ridicule in the last show received a good response, and they invited Arthur to the scene as a guest.
Appoint a time and set it next Thursday.
Arthur finally came to Arkham Mental Hospital.
He found the case of his mother Penny, which records that she did suffer from paranoia and narcissistic personality disorder.
There are newspaper clippings on the file, recording the news that Penny abandoned the child and allowed her boyfriend to abuse her adopted child.
This is the truth, this is how Arthur came from childhood.
Abuse, abused, and burned by domestic violence.
But his mother still told him to keep smiling and even gave him a name, "happy".
Standing in the stairwell, Arthur laughed heart-wrenchingly.
It started raining heavily at night and Arthur returned home.
He came to Sophie's doorstep, hoping to get the last bit of comfort.
Open the door of the female neighbor's house, he sat on the sofa, waiting for Sophie to come back.
However, Sophie's reaction seemed not very familiar with Arthur.
It turns out that everything that happened with Sophie before was his fantasy.
The next day, in the hospital, Arthur and Penny talked about their illness.
He always thinks that uncontrolled laughter is a disease.
But now it seems that that is the real self.
He has never been happy since he was born. "I used to think my life was a tragedy, but now I realize that it should be a funny comedy in the eyes of others."
As he said, he picked up the pillow, pressed it on Penny's face, and killed her.
Losing a job, losing a lover, losing a mother and a fantasy father, losing almost all the identities given to him by society.
Arthur decided to commit suicide on the Franklin Show to complete "that death with a higher value than life."
At home, he rehearsed the interview process and the finale.
He began to dress up as a clown, and he couldn't help dancing.
After knowing it, Arthur felt so relaxed for the first time.
At this time, the ringtone rang outside the door.
They came from former colleague Lan Dao and Gary Gary.
They came to comfort them when they learned that Arthur's mother had passed away.
But Lan Dao obviously didn't really care about Arthur's situation.
He was questioned several times recently by police, worried that Arthur would say that the gun was sent by himself. "We need to unify our views and make sure our statements are consistent." "Why, because I am your younger brother?" Arthur asked back.
Lan Daotian nodded shamelessly, "It makes sense, you know what I mean."
"Thank you really, Lan Dao, thank you."
A knife quickly stabbed Lan Dao in the neck.
A few clean and neat knifes were killed on the spot.
Arthur vented and leaned against the wall with blood on his face.
He had no intention of hurting his dwarf colleague and waved his hand to let him go.
This is the only person who cares about him and treats him well.
After everything was over, Arthur finished his makeup and walked out of the house in a red suit.
The clown is on the stage.
In the past, I always had to climb a high staircase with difficulty when I went home.
Now that I am walking out of my home and walking down the high place, I am extremely relaxed.
Accompanied by the bgm, the clown danced happily, kicked his legs freely and spread his arms openly.
There are many difficulties in working hard, but now we have abandoned everything and indulged in desires, and all we have is ease and freedom.
The clown has become a complete body in spirit.
Robert Downey Jr. also felt a little relaxed when he looked at the plot for some reason.
A good person in the social sense has become a sinful clown. "Chen's filming this episode is really good. He uses up and down the stairs to express Arthur's 'upward' and 'degenerate's ideas."
The little pepper beside him couldn't help but agree when he heard it, "Yes, one is dead and the other is dancing freely, with a clear intention."
Although the movie was screened here, the last scene was still missing.
But the two were almost certain that this movie must be a classic.
The clown initially has the temperament of a super villain.
The police had found him at this time and found Arthur to be a major suspect.
Faced with the police's pursuit, he easily triggered chaos around him and avoided the pursuit.
Come to "The Franklin Show".
The interview began, Murray asked him, "Since you are a comedy, why not tell a joke."
The clown took out Arthur's notebook and looked at the text on it, "I just hope that my death is more meaningful than my life."
"It's indeed a good opportunity to commit suicide." He thought to himself.
The clown took out Arthur's joke and read it as he read it, but was interrupted by Murray several times.
Morry once again laughed at his jokes as not funny, and even a talk show actor had to turn the notes on the jokes.
"This is really funny."
There was a laugh from the audience.
The clown then stopped trying to tell jokes, but instead talked about the subway shooting.
He directly admitted that he was the murderer.
"You killed those three young men?" Murray frowned.
"Yeah."
"Why should we believe you?"
"I have nothing to lose, nothing can hurt me."
He smiled, "My life is a comedy."
The answer was incorrect.
But the clown's relaxed and freehand temperament made Murray believe it a little.
He asked the other party whether he wanted to launch a movement or become a symbolic figure.
But the clown shook his head, "It's just because those people deserve to die."
Morry did not agree with this statement, and the audience also booed. In public opinion, the three people were pitiful good people.
The clown laughed.
"Any bad thing can force a person to death.
If it were me who fell on the street, not those three people, the audience would never sigh as pitifully as they are now.
Because I am insignificant, in the eyes of the public, only rich people like Thomas will be paid attention to.
They are human beings, and their deaths are worthy of attention. ”
Morry: “Do you have any objections to Thomas Wayne? ”
The clown: “Yes, that’s right. ”
Murray showed an incomprehensible expression.
"Do you know how bad the outside world is now? Have you ever gone out? Everyone is very irritable, everyone is indifferent, and they don't care about others, or think about others. It's already difficult for them to live."
"Do you think people like Thomas Wayne will think about people like me? They have never thought of anyone except themselves."
"They just feel that we will bear it silently, like obedient children, without resisting."
Morry: "Are you finished speaking? You only think about yourself, Arthur, this is just making excuses for killing."
"Not everyone is bad." "You're bad, Murray," the clown looked at him with a cold look. "Play my video and ask me to play on the show. You just want to laugh at me."
Morry sneered, feeling that the person in front of him was sick.
He didn't remember the laughter at Arthur at all.
Murray retorted.
But the clown has long been tired of hearing these words. "Do you want to hear another joke, Murray." The clown smiled.
"No, I think we have heard enough of it."
"When you get angry..." "Stop talking."
"A abandoned by society as garbage..." "Stop talking, it's boring."
"What will happen to a marginal person with mental problems?"
In the end, the clown turned into an angry and loud shout. "Call the police, Keane."
Morry still didn't care at all, it was the live broadcast.
"Let me tell you what will happen, you will suffer the consequences." "Call the police." "Bang", a gunshot.
The clown shot directly at Murray, and bright red blood sprayed on the wall behind him.
The audience exclaimed.
The clown sat on the sofa, shaking his legs complacently.
Then, he stood up, came to the camera, picked up the camera, and said to the audience in front of the TV, "Good night, don't forget, this is a clown!"
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End, the police arrested him and the police car drove to the police station.
At this time, there was a riot on the street.
Gotham was completely degenerated and began to become the familiar Gotham City with "simple folk customs".
People are smashing, smashing, and robbing everywhere.
Suddenly, an ambulance rushed out and knocked the police car down.
A group of people wearing clown masks rescued their spiritual leader.
The clown stood up amid the cheers of everyone.
He used the blood in his mouth as fuel to replenish his smile and makeup that had already disappeared.
Life should be full of smiles!
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And on the other side, because of the riot, Thomas Wayne took his wife and children to go home.
While passing by the alley, the rioters in the clown mask killed the couple and snatched their property.
Only the young Bruce Wayne was left standing there and watching the scene happen.
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Lastly, in the Arkham Mental Hospital, the Joker was counseled by another psychologist.
After a moment, he walked out of the room and left bright red footprints in the corridor.
(This chapter ends)