{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Rainbow Dash Network","provider_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/","type":"link","title":"Matt (zeldatra)'s status on Monday, 07-Jun-21 21:43:10 UTC","author_name":"Matt (zeldatra)","author_url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/zeldatra","url":"http:\/\/rainbowdash.net\/notice\/5477159","html":"Yes, the violent, white, male protagonist is treated sympathetically in the film. He\u2019s treated like a victim. Not THE victim. *A* victim. There are a lot of victims in the movie. Arthur. Bruce. Martha. The guys that Arthur killed in the subway. Opposite Joaquin Phoenix is Robert De Niro, who plays Murray. Murray is, like Arthur, a white male. He\u2019s not violent. In fact, he\u2019s (rightly) disgusted by Arthur\u2019s acts of violence. But he\u2019s the antagonist. He\u2019s POWERFUL. And he plays a role in Arthur\u2019s descent into The Joker, as does Thomas Wayne, the film\u2019s secondary antagonist, who is even more powerful and, arguably, responsible for Gotham\u2019s downfall altogether. It\u2019s a film about how the subjugation of the disadvantaged by the rich and powerful can have grave consequences, and it\u2019s dumbfounding that people, living in Obama-Trump-Biden era America where that\u2019s the status quo, can\u2019t see that."}