I did like Joker, but felt that mental illness was just a small side story in that movie. I saw it as making a much more political and socialogical statement. I felt the use of a mental illness in that story was more as an analogy. One that just so happened to work better than if the movie's hero had cancer. Perhaps if the mental illness in that movie was more familiar and accurately portrayed, it would have fail in its intended purpose. Obviously, for some it failed and others not.

I did not see the Joker as the bad character in that movie. The figurative "Wayne's" were the bad ones. People can just forget about the whole Joker portrayal in all the Batman comic books and mega money making movies. It is common for the oppressed to be portrayed as bad. Frig Batman! I sympathized with the Joker, in this case! Those who didn't, did not get the movie in the way I did. Many who didn't could be the same oppressed that vote for their oppressors. The question will be, when do those people realize their real oppressors and revolt?