Batman: The Killing Joke

2016 • 76 minutes

About this movie

What does it take for a person to snap? How much despair for a mind to fracture? These are the twisted questions that The Joker has set out to answer, to show Gotham that even an ordinary man like Commissioner Gordon is only one bad day away from sheer insanity. Based on the acclaimed DC Comics graphic novel, witness a journey into the dark psyche of the Clown Prince of Crime. Follow his humble beginnings as a struggling comic to his fateful encounter with the Dark Knight that changed everything. Fueled by the return of Kevin Conroy as Batman and Mark Hamill as The Joker, witness the birth of a super villain, the fortitude of a hero and the punch line that will leave you speechless.

Ratings and reviews

This was unsettling and not mad enough ... If you are going to take it to the next level go all out. Its a telling of a one shot story by Alan Moore that was weaved into the main story line and doesnt fit. Its praised do to its overly mature content that doesn't fit batman at all. In short this should have been treated as a one shot graphic novel and thats all. Furthermore the relations with batman and batgirl is board line sickening and reflects how bad if that portion was kept in the main batman story line would have damaged the batman image.

Forgiving the first 1/3 to 1/2 of this interpretation, and I mean not allowing it to weigh in at all, this is garbage when compared to the source material. They had more to work with. And I mean, about 50% more in terms of what the SM had in implications. The hand buzzer at the end was wrong. The final scene, and I mean the last 2 seconds, left out the biggest reason this story is so loved/hated and Debated. But whatever, I'm gonna go read it again, so I can laugh at this joke.

电影的前30分钟主要讲述芭芭拉作为Batgirl最后一次惩恶扬善，为之后joker致残芭芭拉以达到逼疯戈登局长做了一点铺垫，之后就主要是joker为了他的one bad day理论而对戈登局长所做一系列精神折磨，joker回忆自己如何走向今天这个面目以及和蝙蝠侠的斗智斗勇。结尾处joker的隐喻很值得玩味。