JOKER SPECTATORSHIP

What sequence is best to exemplify the oscillation between active and passive spectatorship?

Subway sequence

P or A at the start?

Passive

Through what shots are we aligned with arthur and what kind of editing?

POV shots, physically suturing us as well as the eye line match cuts

What does the woman do which makes the spectator shift to passive and question Arthur’s cowardice?

Extra diegetic gaze

What kind of suturing is this?

Moral suturing

Phillips aims to do what kind of suturing when Arthur tries to explain his laughter?

Emotional suturing

What does Phillips do which gains the spectator subjective access?

Flashing lighting and pleonastic sound, it is a sensory overload and heightens the tension, we feel what Arthur is feeling

What quote does Phillips say about our feelings towards Arthur?

We are ‘challenged with what to feel for Arhtur’

We are then positioned how when Arthur is being assaulted and why?

Positioned to passively sympathise with A, the Wall Street Three have no redeeming qualities

What kind of editing is used which shifts us back to active as Arthur shoots?

Frenetic editing and rapid cuts

What do we question as Arthur shoots the WST?

We question his responsibility and if it was necessary

How do we know that Arthur’s intentions were not just out of self defense?

A he chases the third man and shoots him till he runs out of bullets, clear motive of vengeance

What kind of shot helps to emotionally distance us from Arthur?

Extreme long shot

Phillip initially intends to do what to the audience (a passive technique) but why can we never stay passive?

Align us with arthur, we can not be fully aligned with arthur, morally suturing requires an active responce