Joker: folie a deux ending explained Anyone can be the Joker!

In 2019, Joaquin Phoenix's Joker 1 was an Academy Award-winning masterpiece that blurred the lines between delusion and reality. Five years later, Arthur Fleck's Joker: folie a deux is back, and he's off to La La Land with Harley Quinn. Here's our interpretation and review of Joker: folie a deux ending, which differs from the acclaimed Heath Ledger Joker reimagining. 

Joker: Folie a deux 2024 

• Directed by Todd Phillips
• Written by Scott Silver, Todd Phillips
• Based on Characters by DC Comics
• Produced by Todd Phillips, Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Joseph Garner
• Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener
• Music by Hildur Guðnadóttir
• Production companies Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios, Joint Effort
• Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
• Release dates September 4, 2024 (Venice), October 4, 2024 (United States)
• Running time 138 minutes
• Country United States
• Language English
• age rating R 
• Budget $190-200 million
• trailer Joker: Folie À Deux Official Trailer

Joker: folie a deux Review

Joker: folie a deux Review 

Unlike the first installment, which moved between delusion and reality, the second installment moves between musical and reality. Director Todd Phillips turned the Joker's love affair with madness into a song-and-dance musical, and it's hard not to fall in love with the movie because the two people who communicate through song and dance are the Joker himself. 

The main character, Arthur Fleck, is torn between Mary Stewart and Lee Quinzel (Harley Quinn), who is looking at the Joker, and eventually enters Harley Quinn's delusions. As Arthur becomes more intoxicated by the pleasure of being with Harley Quinn, he begins to believe that he can do anything with her.

If in the first movie, the moment of delusion was violence and madness, in the second movie, Arthur Fleck's moment of delusion turns musical. If you don't know this, you might wonder why there's suddenly a lot of singing, but the Joker in his delusion is singing about his love with Harley Quinn, while the real Arthur Fleck is just a criminal with a broken mind. 

Why do the Joker and Harlequin communicate through song and dance?

If you ask me if it had to be a musical, I didn't like it either, but I think song and dance was the best way to express Arthur Fleck's fantasy world. People who liked it said they liked the stark contrast between the miserable reality and the colorful musical world. 

Joker folie a deux Rotten tomatoes

• Rotten tomatoes 60%

If part one was about what is the Joker, part two is about who is the Joker.If you think of Joker 2 as a La La Land, you may be disappointed. If you're thinking of Joker Part 1, I think you're going to be disappointed.

Joker: folie a deux cast

Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck…/Joker

Lady Gaga as Lee Quinzel…/ Harley Quinn

Zazie Beetz as Sophie Dumond

Catherine Keener as Maryanne Stewart

Brendan Gleeson as Jackie Sullivan 

Harry Lawtey as Harvey Dent

Steve Coogan as Paddy Meyers

Joker: folie a deux Plot

Joker: folie a deux Plot

Two years later, Arthur, the third-rate comedian who became the Joker after killing Murray on live television, faces the trial of the century. Having become the greatest killer in history, Arthur struggles in prison, harassed by the guards. 

Arthur Fleck's lawyer, Marianne, doesn't understand the Joker and only sees him as mentally ill. Meanwhile, Lee Quinzel (Harley Quinn) sees the Joker in Arthur Fleck in her visions. Harley Quinn reawakens Arthur as the Joker, who wants love and pleasure.

(Here, Arthur and Lee make love musically, as if in a dream).

'You can do anything you want'  

The guard Jackie takes Arthur to another section of the prison, where the guards, enraged by his behavior, eventually humiliate him by stripping him of all his clothes and beating him in the bathroom. After briefly reverting to Arthur Fleck in shock, he denies the existence of the Joker in court and confesses to killing six people, including his mother. 

Disappointed by this behavior, Harley Quinn leaves Arthur...

Joker: folie a deux ending

Joker: folie a deux ending

Gotham City District Attorney Harvey Dent puts Arthur on trial for the murders of five people. Arthur eventually fires his lawyer, Mary Ann, and begins to defend himself. As Arthur Fleck's trial is broadcast live, people become even more infatuated with the Joker.

Arthur Fleck is thrown into turmoil when his former colleague Gary and neighbor Sophie are called as witnesses. Meanwhile, Harley Quinn visits Arthur in his cell and in court custody, and they make passionate love. While making love, Harley Quinn decides she wants the Joker and dresses up as him. 

On the day of the jury's verdict, a car bombing occurs next to the courthouse. The car in front of the courthouse explodes, leaving the courthouse in chaos. In the chaos, Arthur escapes the courthouse in a car driven by followers dressed as the Joker, and is reunited with Harley Quinn on the steps of Joker 1. 

(Think of it as an homage to Joker 1).

Arthur asks Harley Quinn to leave with him, but she abandons him, disappointed that Arthur Fleck denies the Joker's existence. Eventually arrested by the police, our protagonist is locked up in a mental institution again. Jackie comes for a visit, and on the way to see her, an inmate suddenly shouts at Arthur. 

'You get what you fucking deserve...'   

(an homage to the line he said when he killed Murray in Joker Part 1).

He then stabs him with a hidden knife, and a severely wounded Arthur collapses, singing an ode to Harlequin. After killing the Joker, the prisoner rips his own mouth out with a knife and laughs maniacally. As Frank Sinatra's “That's Life” plays, Arthur dies a lonely death. 

“I hope my death makes more cents than my life. 

Joker: folie a deux ending explained

The story ends with Arthur Fleck choosing death as Arthur over life as the Joker. With the death of Arthur Fleck, the Joker is now a symbol of madness and destruction that anyone can become by donning a clown costume and mask. The series ends with the message that Arthur Fleck finds self in death, but the public, unaware that Arthur was once the Joker, is now infatuated with the masked Joker. 

The Joker series is a masterpiece not only for its visuals, but also for the message it carries, and I personally felt that the message of the second installment was much stronger than the first. Although Arthur Fleck started it, he left the Joker character, a symbol of madness, to the public. 

The Second Joker is Born

The movie can be interpreted in two ways, but the basic idea is that everything in Joker 2, like the first movie, is a fantasy created by Arthur Fleck's delusions. Like Sophie in the first movie, Arthur Fleck escapes his hellish reality by fantasizing about meeting the Harlequin and making the love of his dreams. 

After suffering violence and scorn in prison, Arthur once again sees the Joker as his escape. The Joker is hailed by the public, loved by Harlequin, and defends himself in court. In the real world, Arthur Fleck is mocked by his bodyguards, just as he was in the first movie. 

In the delusion, the Joker is cheered by the public and loved by Harlequin, just like in the first movie. When Arthur awakens from his delusion, he is just a seriously ill patient who can't even tell if he is the Joker or Arthur. He spends more and more time as the delusional Joker, slowly losing his sense of self as Arthur Fleck.  

Realizing that this is all a delusion, Arthur Fleck denies the Joker's existence. When he denies the Joker, his delusional lover Harlequin leaves him, just as Sophie did in the first film. The Joker's existence is a public fantasy, his followers can't accept it, and Arthur's existence is eventually forgotten. 

The Joker started by Heath Ledger is completed by Joaquin Phoenix's prequel Joker series, which hints at the birth of a new Joker, whose mouth is ripped open with a knife at the end. Arthur Fleck's death ended with the implication that the Joker is a monster created by the dark shadows of society and could be anyone. 

People raved about Arthur Fleck's Joker as an outlet for their anger, but even Harley Quinn wanted the Joker to be someone she could make love to, and yet Arthur Fleck cares about no one. In the end, he is erased by the Joker he created. 

Now, no one has forgotten that Arthur Fleck was the Joker, and they are on the side of Joker 2 Poliarz, who has become an icon of the era, symbolizing violence and madness. Director Todd Phillips apparently chose Joker Poliard to bridge the gap between Joaquin Phoenix and Heath Ledger. 

Is the Joker dead?

“There is no Arthur Fleck's Joker, but the Joker is alive.

The bottom line is that the Joker is not dead, but Arthur Fleck is. You might ask if they're the same person, but the point of the Joker prequel series is that anyone can put on a clown costume and be the Joker. It looks like the Joker dies, but if you look closely, it ends with Arthur Fleck dying and a new Joker being born. 

The Joker has become a symbol of the rage inside of people that can be unleashed whenever they put on a costume or mask, so the weak Arthur Fleck has to go, and people can put on the Joker mask and commit crimes. 

With no plans for a Joker season 3, Joaquin Phoenix's departure seems to speak to the violence and insanity that comes with anonymity. Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck may be gone, but the violence left behind by the Joker still threatens this society. 

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