What do you get when you cross a gritty arthouse noir with comic book mythology? You get Joker, a “wild card” of a film open to multiple interpretations; a serious movie snuck into a studio-run superhero world.
Joker may not be part of the DCEU – DC’s own shared cinematic universe – but it doesn’t need to be. The character is so well known the association alone is enough to give it extra layers of meaning.
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