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Who’s Laughing Now? Joker, Violence and Sad White Men
Part origin story, part rock opera of ultraviolence, Joker been called an unflinching masterpiece by some critics and derided as a shallow handbook for incels by others. Eleanor Penny argues it's neither - but it does tell us something about a society which can simultaneously decry and forgive the violence of white men.