Jessica Kiang reports that after the Venice screening of Joker, director Todd Phillips “asserted his belief that while movies mirror society, they do not mold it”. But since in society the mentally ill are not the cause of violence, and are in fact more likely to be the victims of it, his movie is but a funhouse mirror distorting society, not merely reflecting it. If his movie reinforces that dangerously stigmatizing idea, it will in fact be helping to mold society, for the worse.
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