Warning: This article contains spoilers for Joker: Folie à DeuxOne key scene in JOTurn: Folie à DeuxThe controversial ending was broken by director Todd Phillips, confirming whether it played in the twisted imagination of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix). In the final moments of the DC sequel, after the courtroom explosion interrupts his trial, Arthur Fleet, reuniting with Lady Gaga’s Harley on the now-iconic steps outside his old apartment building.
spoke to EWPhillips broke down key aspects of Joker: Folie à Deux’s Finally, Crucial explains why Harley Quinn turns her back on Arthur when they meet. He also confirms that, despite rampant theories about which parts of the movie are actually real, the sequence is set in reality. Here’s the important excerpt from the piece at the end:
“[She’s] I realize I’m on a whole different journey, man, you can’t be what I wanted you to be,” he explains. Phillips also confirms that, while boasting a dreamlike quality, the final exchange between Lee and Arthur is “Actually. , really happening” and is not an imagined interaction like Arthur’s fake romance with Sophie (Zazie Beets) in the previous installment.
What Todd Phillips’ explanation of Joker: Folie in Deux’s final Harley Quinn scene means
Sometimes the most straightforward answer is the best
One interpretation of Joker: Folie à Deux’s The ending suggests that Arthur imagines the scene as part of his cathartic rejection of the Joker identity, realizing in Phillips’ own words that he needs “To burn it allPhillips explained to EW that Arthur had an epiphany about his own unnecessary effort:
“…He’s accepted the fact that he’s always been Arthur Fleck; he’s never been the thing that was put on him, the idea that Gotham people put on him, that he represents.”
This fits with the suggestion that Arthur may have imagined his final interaction with Harley, as she is his most direct link to his followers on Gotham’s streets. critical, Joker: Folie à Deux Drops visual hints about what scenes are imagined, typically showing Harley in full make-up. The staircase scene also shows her in make-up after she cuts her hair and adopts a new look, offering further questions about its status.
With Phillips’ clarification, the theory was immediately debunked. Instead, Arthur is left with the final confirmation that she, like all of his followers, was obsessed with the idea of Joker, and not Arthur. It also fits with the reading of Joker: Folie à Deux That says Phillips is consciously addressing the reception of the first movie.
Our take on Joker: Folie à Deux’s final scene between Harley and Arthur
Todd Phillips is right to clarify his intentions
Arthur Fleck’s story crosses both Joker Cinema is a tragedy, not of hope. While it was assumed that the first jokerThe end was a call to arms for disaffected people, social outcasts, and victims of oppressive, corrupt institutional systems, it was supposed to be bleak. Arthur’s story got lost as he became a bigger idea, which is exactly what Harley Quinn’s involvement in the sequel underlines.
It wouldn’t have been right for Arthur to make his own tragic realization about Harley for this reason. To reclaim his own narrative, he had to realize the extent of the tragedy, and Harley rejecting him for real for not living up to her delusional expectations of him was the perfect way to do that. In a world where directors often remain silent on scenes that may be open to interpretation, Phillips choosing to explain this particular one is important to Joker: Folie à Deux.
Source: EW
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