Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Durham, Rory
• Wilkinson, Paul

Titel

Joker: how ‘entertaining’ films may affect public attitudes towards mental illness – psychiatry in movies

Ist Teil von

• British journal of psychiatry, 2020-06, Vol.216 (6), p.307-307

Ort / Verlag

London: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

Quelle

Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Arthur's struggle with mental illness is a key theme in Joker, and its portrayal could have a powerful effect on public attitudes towards real people with mental illness. In the final scene, Arthur is seen in a psychiatric hospital, leaving the viewer with the conclusion that his mental illness was the cause of his crimes, for which he was admitted to hospital rather than imprisoned. [...]although Joaquin Phoenix's performance is indeed powerful, in a climate where the US President has made remarks such as ‘mental illness pulls the trigger, not the gun’, there is the danger that the film has increased the stigma towards a group who need support, not fear (or worse) from their community.