Joker : Folie à Deux is a Disaster | Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Zazie Beetz | The Jaftaf Show 29

Joker : Folie à Deux is a Disaster | Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Zazie Beetz | The Jaftaf Show 29 Connect us on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thejaftafshow Watch our other Episodes Here https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5HfI2_3_pcH9VIVaS6eOA-okhylXGlmz&si=bn9DDQ2TwB4SqoIC Joker : Folie à Deux Plot - In an animated sequence, the Joker is impersonated by his shadow, who takes his place to perform his singing number for a TV show, and then abandons him on stage half-undressed, before three policemen arrive and beat him. In 1983, Arthur Fleck is in custody at Arkham State Hospital awaiting trial for the crimes he committed two years prior.[b] His lawyer, Maryanne Stewart, plans to argue that Arthur has dissociative identity disorder and that his "Joker" personality is responsible for the crimes. At a music therapy session, Arthur meets another patient, Harleen "Lee" Quinzel. Lee confides to Arthur that she grew up in the same neighborhood he did, had an abusive father who died in a car crash and was imprisoned after burning down her parents' apartment building. Lee also expresses her admiration for the Joker's crimes and personality. During a film screening, Lee starts a fire. She and Arthur are caught trying to escape, and Arthur is placed in solitary confinement. Lee seemingly visits him at night to say she is being released to avoid his influence but promises to attend his trial, and they have sex. During an interview with television personality Paddy Meyers, Arthur sings to Lee through the television screen, deepening her love for him. On the day of the trial, Assistant District Attorney Harvey Dent calls witnesses who dismiss Arthur's claims of insanity. During a break, Maryanne reveals that Lee was actually a psychiatry student who grew up in the Upper West Side, and her father, a doctor, is alive. Furthermore, she voluntarily committed herself at Arkham, checked herself out, and never burned down an apartment building. When Arthur confronts Lee, she confesses that her lies were an effort to get close to Arthur but also tells him that she is pregnant and has moved into his old apartment building to create a home for them. At the trial the next day, Arthur dismisses Maryanne and represents himself. After bringing Arthur's former co-worker Gary Puddles and neighbor Sophie Dumond to the stand, Dent rests his case. Arthur, visibly affected by Gary’s testimony, offers no defense, although, during his speech, he mentions the Arkham guards negatively. Returning to Arkham, he is taken to the showers room by head guard Jackie Sullivan and two guards, where he is brutally beaten before being brought to his cell partially naked. Ricky, an inmate and friend of Arthur, verbally confronts the guards, resulting in Jackie strangling him to death. Overhearing this, Arthur reminisces about the aftermath of his first kills as Joker. During his closing argument in court the following day, a devastated Arthur renounces his Joker persona, taking full responsibility for his actions. Enraged at this, Lee storms out, and the jury finds Arthur guilty of first-degree murder. As the foreman reads the verdict, a car bomb explodes outside the courthouse, killing and injuring numerous attendees and scarring half of Dent's face. In the chaos, two followers help Arthur escape. Arthur wanders through Gotham and encounters Lee outside his old apartment, but she rejects him for renouncing his Joker persona and admits that the pregnancy was another lie before leaving. The police apprehend Arthur and return him to Arkham. The next day, a young patient approaches Arthur and begins to tell him a joke before repeatedly stabbing Arthur in the abdomen. As Arthur bleeds to death, the patient carves a Glasgow smile into his own face while laughing.