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SPOILERS FOR JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX AHEAD
If you needed any further proof that the collapse of media literacy is real and at a crisis point, Folie a Deux is currently being panned as the worst film of the year because "the musical numbers don't make sense" when it's abundantly clear from the first instance this is a musical where the songs are entirely and strictly non-diegetic; they exist only in Arthur and Lee's heads and act as a metaphor and shorthand for their codependence and competing derangements - for insanity in general, you could say
This is made evident by THE FIRST MUSICAL NUMBER IN THE FILM, where Arthur goes from watching TV to wheeling around the common room singing For Once In My Life, only for it to hard cut back to before he started singing; this reveals that everything we just saw was entirely in his head, and sets the tone for the rest of the film
(It's not a perfect film, by a long way, but need I remind you that this year has already seen the release of Madame Web, a film that has been described as "a fever dream", "an opium-induced hallucination" and "the worst comic book movie ever made", and Megalopolis, the single greatest argument for a mandatory retirement age for directors there's ever been, so let's put the "worst movie of the year" award back on the shelf for a start)
What gets me is that this is really not high art stuff at all - this is basic, BASIC media literacy and the fact that millions of people are seemingly unable to realise it is genuinely shocking
Fotos del Estreno de 'Megalopolis' en el Festival de Cine de Cannes: Francis Ford Coppola, Adam Driver, Shia LaBeouf, Aubrey Plaza y más...
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