At least three things happen at the end ofJoker: Folie a Deuxwere still in shock about.
So lets do that.
Lets take these in order.
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He doesnt want to be Joker anymore.
He doesnt want to try and get away with murder anymore.
He just wants to be found guilty and die.
Worst of all, it doesnt feel particularly motivated.
Its a betrayal, both on-screen and off, of everything that the story has been working toward.
AndJoker: Folie a Deuxis just getting started with its odd last-act choices.
Next up is the sentencing.
As Arthur is slowly being found guilty on all murder charges, Phillips literally blows up his movie.
Which he then does.
It never even really amounts to anything because we dont learn about the deaths or any fallout.
Which then adds its own set of questions.
What was her endgame in the first place?
Did she just want to be famous?
Did she actually love Arthur or just Joker?
Was she even pregnant, as she said earlier in the film?
We dont know and the film tells us we shouldnt care.
Finally, theres the very end.
Arthur is back in prison, awaiting his death sentence, when he gets a visitor.
That was my reaction as it was happening.
This isnt a world with any supernatural elements.
Now, could another filmmaker pick up the story with that other character as Joker?
Finally, theres the question of Arthurs visitor.
Could the visitor have been Lee?
Sophie (Zazie Beetz)?
Harvey Dent, who gets an almost Two-Face origin in the explosion?
Or maybe a young Bruce Wayne, who we saw in the last movie?
The answer is, maybe.
Any of those seem hypothetically possible.
But Phillips has no intention of answering that question.
Thats our take on the insanity that is the ending ofJoker: Folie a Deuxwhats yours?
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