Five years ago, DC‘s Joker became the new Fight Club for a generation of movie fans, connecting with so many different audience quadrants that it blew impressively past the billion dollar box office milestone. In 2024, in the immediate wake of Joker: Folie a Deux‘s release, it’s impossible not to be shocked at the apathy or outright rage at the sequel. This should have been a slam dunk, building on Joker‘s shocking ending, and instead early signs point to a flop of epic proportions that has kicked off a tsunami of outrage. At the heart of that is one question: who exactly was this movie for?
