Whereas there’s each likelihood that Harley may effectively be a good-hearted physician attempting to get by way of to Arthur and failing, different proof may counsel that she is totally a fabrication made up by Fleck as a little bit of escapism from the scenario he is discovered himself in. It will clarify why there are shifts between the actual world and the massive song-and-dance numbers that the movie is teasing. Like Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) was to the Narrator (Edward Norton) in “Combat Membership” (aka the movie we’re not supposed to speak about), Harley could possibly be Arthur’s internal ideas breaking out and sending him into this new chapter because the Clown Prince of Crime.
It will mark an fascinating shift from the earlier movie, which saved Arthur combating by way of the ugly world Phillips had created till he bought his final snigger, however there’s additionally the prospect that there could possibly be a much more correct and simply as unsettling origin to his new love. Harley could possibly be one other fan following within the literal footsteps of Arthur, idolizing this anarchist who hides behind face paint and a crimson and yellow swimsuit, even going so far as visiting him in jail, resulting in the lipstick scene within the trailer that has everybody dropping it. We’ll see for ourselves when “Joker: Folie à Deux” arrives in theaters on October 4.