(trailer review) - Joker: Folie à Deux

After watching the first movie, I felt that Warner Brothers did an amazing job. Joaquin Phoenix was great and the story of Joker was somewhat different to what a lot of people have known through reading the comics. I never read the comics and The Joker to me was basically the arch nemesis of The Batman. He wore purpler and Jack Nicholson played a great version of the Clown criminal back in the Batman movie with Michael Keaton as the titular hero. I really felt that this movie did not need a sequel. That perhaps, Todd Phillips or whomever took the job on (hopefully Todd) were to do another film based on another Batman villain, Mr Freeze, maybe. Imagine a film about a man named Viktor who is a scientist and he has a sick wife in whom he loves dearly, but is trying to cure her from her illness and ends up going down a dark and sinister path leading him to becoming the Mr Freeze we know from the comics...but they have decided to go with a sequel to Joker and they have also brought in Harley Quinn. So, will this be just as good as the first one, even though this is going to be a musical.

This trailer is great. The trailer does not show us any of the musical elements to the movie, but it does seem to continue the theme of the unreliable narrative from Arthur Fleck. What is real and what is all in his head. I had to rewind the trailer at the point where he was walking with the guards in the rain and he looks up towards the sky and you see the colourful umbrellas. My mind immediately thought, "I am sure I did not see colourful umbrellas is the shot before!?" And I was right. So It will be interesting to know and try to work out what is actually happening and what is not. I am hoping for a Shutter Island kind of movie where Harley Quinn is the person he is fantasizing over but she is the psychiatrist trying to help Arthur, but he goes off into these fantasies that play out differently to what is actually happening and maybe she does actually join him or maybe we are led to believe that. The chaos and anarchy. Hopefully this movie will be just as great as the first one and again, win awards. Also, this is just a teaser trailer, so there is more to come.