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• Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe for the first half, but their character development diverges at the end. Travis Bickle attempted to do something good, however misplaced, but the joker just wanted to watch the world burn.

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  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The way I see it, Travis thinks he’s doing something good, and succeeds in becoming a ‘hero’ purely by accident.

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    • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s the beauty of the movie. He steps past the breaking point but his focus was on getting the girl out so all the violence is justified. But he’s not perfect, otherwise his true intentions would have been completed and he’d be recognized as the monster he really is. It’s all perspectives.

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• SchizoDenji@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And how is that bad?

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  • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not saying it is bad. Personally I see Taxi Driver as a better telling of that story, but Joker is also good in its own way.

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