While Avengers: Endgame took the world by storm this past spring in becoming the highest grossing film of all time, the pop culture community has not been able to stop talking about the film that is now the first R-rated film to gross 1 billion world wide at the box office. Joker has become nothing short of a phenomenon. As the film prepares to begin its push for Academy Award nomination, the films star Joaquin Phoenix has commented on the films incredible success at the box office. Phoenix stated,
It’s not the box office but the reception that’s been vindicating. It’s the fact that I get emails from people telling me that the movie made them look at their sister who suffers from schizophrenia in a different light. Ultimately, the movie is about the power of kindness and the lack of empathy in the world, and the audience seems to have picked up on that. It’s amazing that a movie that was supposed to inspire, as they put it, mass mayhem really has just inspired a bunch of people dancing down staircases. I think that speaks more to our times than anything.
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