Richard Brody reviews “The People’s Joker”—a John Waters-esque take on superhero movies—directed and co-written by Vera Drew, who also stars in the film.
Drew, who also stars in “The People’s Joker ” and wrote it with Bri LeRose, plays the Joker and tells the character’s origin story in flashbacks, as a first-person coming-of-age drama. From the start, Drew borrows from the same crucial source that Phillips’s overblown, absurdly earnest mega-version does: Martin Scorsese. This latest Joker declares, up front, “As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a Joker ”—in effect, a “Goodfellas”-ization of “The King of Comedy .
J , who’s also trans, is one of Batman’s former Robins, and Bruce Wayne turns out to be a closeted gay man, a predatory abuser, and a popular reality-TV star. The Gotham City dystopia is an overtly right-wing one, under the reign of President Lex Luthor, with Queebso TV spewing anti-gay rants and promoting Smylex to keep women cheerful for their husbands. The movie maintains a hectic tone to match its slashingly antic material.
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