Stephen Galloway at HollywoodReporter.com offers praise for the near-pornographic violence in the new film, ‘Joker’ with Joaquin Phoenix. Like Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 ‘A Clockwork Orange’, which garnered an X rating, and a public outcry, the visceral impact of Joker sickens, yet packs a moral punch unlike anything in recent memory.
Marginalized, rejected, shushed, and demeaned by social justice warriors in Progressive society, young men enter the world of video games where they can live like real men. Brave, bold, ambitious, and rough around the edges, gamers develop characters who move at speed, act with courage, triumph against overwhelming odds, and revel in the reward, to become who they were meant to be.