'Joker 2' Director Confirms Twist Ending, Explains Meaning Behind That Major Reveal
The director of the new movie Joker: Folie a Deux is confirming details about that major twist ending.
Joker 2 has unfortunately been a miss with both critics and audiences, getting negative reviews from both and flopping at the box office. If you want to know what happens in the end, we have some details!
This post clearly will contain spoilers from the film’s ending, so beware of reading further if you don’t want to know what happens.
Keep reading to find out more…
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Joaquin Phoenix‘s Arthur Fleck is found guilty of murder and in his final testimony while defending himself in the trial, he confesses that the Joker doesn’t exist. He was Arthur all along.
Lady Gaga‘s Lee leaves Arthur when she discovers that the Joker doesn’t exist.
The final scene of the movie sees Arthur back in Arkham and clearly depressed after Lee broke up with him. He’s told that he has a visitor and as he makes his way down the hall, he’s followed by the “Young Inmate,” played by newcomer Connor Storrie.
The Inmate asks Arthur if he could tell him a joke. Arthur tells him to make it quick and the Inmate tells a story about a clown and a psychopath in a bar. The joke ends with the punchline, “I’ll get you what you f–king deserve.” As the Inmate says that line, he stabs Arthur in the abdomen over and over again.
While Arthur is bleeding out on the ground, the Young Inmate is manically laughing in the background and uses his knife to carve a smile into his face.
The real Joker all along was the Young Inmate and Arthur was just his inspiration.
So, why does Arthur confess?
Director Todd Phillips told Entertainment Weekly, “He realized that everything is so corrupt, it’s never going to change, and the only way to fix it is to burn it all down. When those guards kill that kid in the [hospital] he realizes that dressing up in makeup, putting on this thing, it’s not changing anything. In some ways, he’s accepted the fact that he’s always been Arthur Fleck; he’s never been this thing that’s been put upon him, this idea that Gotham people put on him, that he represents. He’s an unwitting icon. This thing was placed on him, and he doesn’t want to live as a fake anymore — he wants to be who he is.”
“The sad thing is, he’s Arthur, and nobody cares about Arthur,” he added.
Todd went into further detail behind the different Joker in another interview.