Joker, Woke Culture, and America

Rick Kitagawa (he/him)
6 min readOct 12, 2019

Why, despite wanting to like the film, I don’t recommend watching it.

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I’m not the biggest Batman fan in the world, but of the DC pantheon, he’s probably one of my favorites, and so I’ve been looking towards the dark, gritty Joaquin Phoenix-powered Joker film since the trailer first dropped.

That said, I skipped on reading reviews prior, and tried to go in to viewing it last night…

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Rick Kitagawa (he/him)

Amzn best-selling author talking trust, leadership, #NFTs, creativity, and horror fiction — Co-Founder, https://spotlighttrust.com. https://rickkitagawa.com