Just a quick little post to let you know that I have a reading coming up at Worm’s Emporium on April 1st, curated by Catch Breath and featuring yours truly, Juliet Gelfman-Randazzo, Mia Bloomfield, Jem Bonilla, and Jesse Prado. I might tell some jokes, I might do something weird, and I might read some portions of this wacky thing I’ve been working on about romance and the dark web. Please drop by if you’re in town.
Sharing the following because there is a joker on the flyer for the poetry comedy event: The other night I wanted to watch a movie and Adrian had started playing Taxi Driver as a goof but there was so much I hadn't remembered about the movie in the fifteen years since I had last seen it so we wound up watching the whole thing. The next night we watched Joker and a few nights later we watched The King of Comedy.
I didn't even know it was a movie, but after we watched Taxi Driver we we're looking at articles about Taxi Driver and Joker, because there were similarities between the two films that we noticed watching Joker for the second time. And one of the articles we read mentioned King of Comedy so we watched it and you can definitely see that it was a huge source of inspiration for Joker.
All three movies feature unreliable narrators as well as Robert de Niro. Joker was a thing of controversy when it was first released, and I think all the discourse around it turned me off so I waited about a year to watch it. I really enjoyed watching it for the second time with the interpretation that nearly all of the action seen in the film is in the main character's imagination, and I think watching the three movies as a sort of triple feature only added to my appreciation for them. It was cool to see how these films inform each other, particularly the subtle and not so subtle methods employed to show the audience what’s happening for the main character may only be in the main character’s head.
Fellow movie fans, have you watched these movies together as a trio? What did you think? I'm curious what other people have to say about these movies.