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My friend saw the Joker and said, “…Also, the message of ‘Be nice to people and they won’t shoot you’ is not my fav.” I am sorry but I disagree with this. The message of the movie is way more, way deeper than ‘just be nice to people’. It was more along the lines of getting these ill people the help they need, really listen to them, and legitimatizing their experiences, and you could lessen these situations. People weren’t nice to Arthur sure but he is dealing with a psychiatrist who isn’t listening to him, him wanting more meds, a ‘society’ that could care less about him, just complete hopelessness. Then on top of that, the government cuts funding for mental health.

Part of the reason I love the Murray Show scene so much is that it is basically Arthur and the psychiatrist all over again with higher stakes. Arthur in his monologue spells out it, how all these factors of mental health, being a loner, the society he is living outcasting him pushed him to become who he is. Murray isn’t listening, Murray is trying to talk down to him, twisting his answers, saying it was all a bunch of self-pity as Arthur is literally trying to explain himself. Once again he is being ignored and being told that his experiences and feelings don’t matter.

So I say again, the movie is way more than ‘just be nice to people’. To me, the message is about being lost in the world and finally being recognized and validated.