I took a Media course in college for an easy A but it actually required a ton of work that nobody wanted to do…so when it came time to make “films,” we’d just put the darkest, most depressing stuff we could think of and spin it as “deep” and “emotional” (because that was easier than actually putting in the work to come up with an original story).
That’s how these Joker movies come off to me. Like a senior in Media Production doing the bare minimum to make himself seem smart.