A thread, for me, a woman of Nicaraguan origin who has far too much empathy and compassion for others (often for the wrong people) since that is what I've been taught. So I watched 'Joker' last night and found myself feeling nauseous in the first few moments. Oh boy. 1/

I found myself feeling for this character's unfortunate origin story and had to quickly pull back and realize, oh wait, this is a story about a psychopathic killer clown. LITERALLY. 2/

*spoilers* The fact they make the audience empathize because he is poor and his "enemies" are rich. Now, I am one who will always side with the poor...but I don't see any of my peers who grew up poor acting out this type of violence on wall street bros. 3/

In the end, I came out of it feeling duped. Am I supposed to feel bad for Joker? There's so many sad white men out there killing others, out of revenge or other twisted reasons and the answer to that is NO I don't feel the least bit sorry for any of them. Abusive past or not. 4/

It was still a good film only because Joaquin Phoenix is such an amazing actor and I'm glad I can think about it critically myself...but wonder how other people have interpreted it, especially women who are taught to feel sorry for these types of men. End thread. 5/