With “Joker: Folie à Deux” now in cinemas, the film’s ending can be discussed with the appropriate spoiler warnings. A description of said ending leaked online days ago and caused a huge ruckus, and now that people are actually seeing the film – the discussion has only gotten louder. MAJOR SPOILERS FOR “JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX” AHEAD In the film, Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) has reckoned with his identity and cones to the conclusion the Joker persona was just a fantasy and he was the one who murdered those people.
After escaping court following a bomb blast, he tries to reunite with Lee (Lady Gaga) who rejects him as what they had was a ‘fantasy’. The rejected Arthur hands himself in. In the closing moments, a young inmate (Connor Storrie) approaches Arthur, tells a joke, and says: “You get what you f—ing deserve” before repeatedly stabbing him.
As Arthur dies, said inmate laughs as he carves a Glasgow smile across his face in what appears to be a nod to the version Heath Ledger’s Joker donned in “The Dark Knight”. The end essentially implies this young man will become the real ‘The Joker’ after Arthur’s actions inspired him and many similar other ‘damaged’ young men. Director Todd Phillips spoke with about the ending and says it was always intended that Arthur was never the real The Joker: “The first film is called Joker.
It’s not called The Joker, it’s called Joker. And the first film under the script always said ‘An origin stor.
