I have a feeling this will; run and run. It sure is in my head. Matt Fudge has written the post i wanted to. The Joker is right:
this character fascinated me. Not just because the character was played so well, but because he was right.
You read that right: In this film, the Joker is the only character who isn’t crazy.
The joker is a character who poses at first simply as a really crazy villain. Then we start to see that he seems to engage in evil just for it’s own sake. And then we see that the Joker has a very profound and deliberate point to make. About two thirds of the way into the movie, adding a nurse’s uniform and curly red wig to his already grotesque appearance, the Joker makes this assertion:
“The only sensible way to live in this world is without rules.”
(ht: Bish)
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