{"id":108510,"date":"2019-09-02T15:57:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/02\/incel-violence-is-horrific-but-joker-is-complex-and-doesnt-take-sides\/"},"modified":"2019-09-02T15:57:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T13:57:23","slug":"incel-violence-is-horrific-but-joker-is-complex-and-doesnt-take-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=108510","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Incel&#039; violence is horrific, but Joker is complex, and doesn&#039;t take sides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alarmist reactions to the \u2018rightwing\u2019 film \u2013 starring Joaquin Phoenix as a needy, dangerous wannabe star comic \u2013 overlook its subtler pointsTodd Phillips\u2019s Joker had its world premiere at the Venice film festival only on Saturday, so it\u2019s impressive that nearly everyone on the internet has an opinion on it. Reviews from critics here have been largely positive, though have also already sparked discontented rumblings from that nebulous collection of industry folks and movie fans known as \u201cfilm twitter\u201d. One of the central points of contention around Phillips\u2019s comic-book villain origin story is that it in some way panders to incel culture, or \u201cinvoluntary celibates\u201d \u2013 men who see themselves as losers and \u201cbeta males\u201d who women don\u2019t want to sleep with. Angry, misogynistic and feeling entitled to sex and attention, incels have been prone to real-world violence, as with the Isla Vista murders in 2014, when a killer targeted a sorority \u2013 shooting 11 people and killing six before killing himself. Related: Joker review \u2013 Joaquin Phoenix\u2019s villain has last laugh in twisted tale Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/sep\/02\/incel-violence-joker-rightwing-film-joaquin-phoenix\" target=\"_blank\">&#039;Incel&#039; violence is horrific, but Joker is complex, and doesn&#039;t take sides<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alarmist reactions to the \u2018rightwing\u2019 film \u2013 starring Joaquin Phoenix as a needy, dangerous wannabe star comic \u2013 overlook its subtler pointsTodd Phillips\u2019s Joker had its world premiere at the Venice film festival only on Saturday, so it\u2019s impressive that nearly everyone on the internet has an opinion on it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}