"Is it just me, or is the world crazy about me?"
"the Joker"
Surprisingly, he laughs hysterically, then enters into a panic attack that sweats them, then screams in the face of everyone who meets him and hangs on himself and life, then by surprise he does not care about all of that, and every action separated by lightning periods from the other act! Some of you may associate these troubled behaviors with the character of Arthur Flick, the hero of the Joker film, which broke into cinemas last week, stealing the spotlight from all orphaned movies, which were screened in that period until it became the talk of the hour and minute as well! But in fact these strange acts were not only issued by the character of the Joker, but by the young Russian Raskolnikov, the hero of the novel "Crime and Punishment" by the great human writer Fyodor Dostoevsky. The novel takes place in one of the slums of St. Petersburg, where the young university student Rodwin Raskolnikov completed his studies in law, and lived a bitter life difficult, and intensified by want to be forced to one day to mortgage some of his property at Iliona Ivanovna or known as the old usury, and in a moment of outrage Raskolnikov decided to take revenge on her and kill her for a great idea «as alleged» acquired On his mind, he went To her apartment and killed in cold blood evil killers, and then killed her sister, which was not guilty, but found in that place at the time of committing his heinous crime! Then we find Raskolnikov enters into a vortex of psychological torment Dostoevsky describes us with ingenious precision! Until he ended up turning himself in to the police station and confessing to the crime he committed. For those who did not read «crime and punishment», the real novel begins after the murder, and its essence and beauty lies in the dive into the corridors of the criminal mind with its extreme and deep darkness.
In the Joker film, we find a case similar to the novel. The director Todd Phillips and the hero of the story Arthur Flick (Joker), in highlighting the psychology of this mysterious character is wonderful, where the events take us on a journey that may be described as tragic inside the mind of the Joker to show how the patient is treated My mind with this reality and the world, a clever step of the director to arouse sympathy for this category of human beings, which is on the brink of the abyss always and prone to ridicule and humiliation, because of its excessive sensitivity to people and things, and I will not find who expresses this situation better than the Joker itself, saying “The worst part of being mentally ill, And that people expect you to act like you do not well ».
Raskolnikov and the Joker turned out to be a criminal in the end, after the society and tasted them from the torment, and note that in the two stories there was a decisive moment that changed the course of events completely, and this moment was an idea that was born and completely tyrannized to dominate the course of their next life Fraskolnikov, I believe sincerely, may even believe that he is a superman like Napoleon and has the right to commit the crimes he wants to achieve his purpose, and then justifies it by saying: «I did not kill a human being, but killed principle», and the Joker, who almost killed himself during a television interview Vivid if not read it to the idea may do Neha in his personal diary «I will leave you the trouble to search for», and this idea made him not to kill himself to kill the presenter of the program instead to begin the bloody Joker march!
One idea has changed everything, either for the worse or for the better .. Only one idea!
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