the brand-new Joker trailer has come out starring Joaquin Phoenix and there's
been a massive reaction and I've had a ton of people ask me to make a video
about it because this movie is going to discuss mental illness but there are
some things going on surrounding this movie that I want to talk about when it
comes to mental illness what is up everybody this is Chris from the rewired
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that notification bell so I am stoked Joaquin Phoenix is an amazing actor it's
so cool that he's gonna be playing the Joker
I'm a huge comic book fan and I've loved Batman just since I was a kid I love it
I love it okay which movie comes out like if there's a movie coming out I'm
gonna see it I might not like it but I get excited about it nevertheless right
so anyways in this trailer that was released it's clear that Joaquin
Phoenix's character the Joker he is struggling with mental health issues
right like there is a scene shown where he's writing on a notepad writing out
some jokes and he talks about mental illness and then there are some shots of
like Arkham Asylum right one of the most you know iconic spots being the Batman
series where most of the bad guys go but anyways I came across this article from
salon.com and it's titled why it's a problem if Joker connects mental illness
to villainy alright and here's just a little quick excerpt from it in the
opening shot of the trailer Phoenix's character Arthur is asked by a
professional of some kind whether it helps to have someone to talk to a
question that he answers with a creepy slightly unhinged smile a few shots
later we see him jotting down in a notepad that the worst part about having
a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don't it also becomes
clear that Phoenix's Joker has a Freudian
perhaps downlight oedipal relationship with his mother and that the bullying he
receives at the hands of random outsiders is linked to his visible
displays of mental illness again this quote says the worst
stereotypes come out and such depictions mentally ill individuals as incompetent
dangerous slovenly undeserving the portrayals serve to distance them from
the rest of us Stephen Hinshaw a professor of psychology at the
University of California Berkeley told US News and World Report in 2015 and
okay so let's talk real quick I'm part of my channel like I advocate for mental
health okay like this is a huge deal there's a there's a massive stigma all
right and there's not enough awareness we don't talk about it enough it's one
of the reasons I have this channel so you have the conversation but you guys
you guys people people are giving way too many facts about this like this is
absolutely ridiculous like I I take such an issue like there's
so much going on in the world when it comes to mental illness mental health
and all of that where we're focusing on fictional movies fictional movies okay
like it seems like we get so upset and and it's part of outraged culture which
I am so so against okay and people get so upset that this is affecting them
like play this scenario out okay like I understand the argument I understand the
argument if a movie depicts mental illness in a certain way then it could
create this narrative about mental illness in the real world but like how
many times do you think it's ever really happened that somebody met somebody with
a mental illness like hmm I saw this comic book movie and I think people like
you are dangerous I cannot I cannot imagine that ever happening and if I'm
wrong please tell me down in the comments below but like I mentioned to
like in the Batman universe like Arkham Asylum is is a major part of that well
go wouldn't they get locked up and Arkham Asylum
is a Psychiatric Institute okay like this is what happens this part of it and
my comic books and comic book movies are meant to be fun and entertaining and
completely fictional and and I do not understand the logic behind getting so
upset about this this happened when split came out too because of
dissociative identity disorder and a lot of people getting upset about that as
well and you guys like here here's the thing right there are things that we
need to focus on and care about it but I do not think I do not think movies are
one of them like for example the mental health care
system in the United States sucks it sucks extremely bad a ton of people
can't get treatment can't get therapy even with insurance it's extremely
extremely expensive like for every ounce of energy that we waste whining and
complaining about a fictional movie that is energy that could be focused towards
the real issue like how many of us how many of us have at least one person in
our life that is struggling with a mental health issue whether it's it's
trauma or depression or anxiety or even something like grief you know because
they lost somebody right like there are so many people who are just willing to
tweet outrage or write articles about this but how much time are they spending
trying to help the people in their actual lives you know what I mean
because I don't think it's that much and that's one of the sad part about about
the Internet is that so many people just have this focused outrage and we're
completely neglecting the real-life issues that are actually happening so
what's the solution to this what is the solution to this like I love taking like
movies and TV and music and kind of breaking them down like especially when
it comes to addiction those of you who are just now meeting me hi I'm Chris I'm
a recovering addict and alcoholic with over 6 years clean like I like to look
at and say okay was this accurate or was this inaccurate right like there is a
way to have this conversation in a calm adult manner like in
oh my god so like once once the movie comes out make some articles about this
write something about it like there is nothing more ridiculous to me than
people freaking out over a trailer right we see this happen constantly it
happened with some Netflix shows and things like that
like wait until the film actually comes out but even still like wait until it
comes out and then look at it analyze it say what's accurate say what's
inaccurate I believe if we want to do our part and decrease the stigma like
let's talk about it but there was it makes I think it makes all of us look
ridiculous and it hurts our cause when a 2 minute trailer comes out and people
like oh they're mentally ill so I see this argument quite often where people
say that you know these these make others believe that mentally ill people
are more likely to commit violent crimes and all that and that's not the case I
think even in this article which I'll link down below it's it says something
like maybe they're not they don't have mental health issues they're just bad
people and this is why I'm trying to change the conversation around mental
health like anybody who commits these violent crimes has a mental health issue
they might not have a diagnosis but I think it's safe to say that there's
something up with their mental health whether it's emotional regulation
whether it's impulse control whether it's empathy these are all states of the
mind so I don't think it's too far off to say someone who commits violent
heinous acts has something going on with their mental health ok nobody who has
very good mental health is going to do something like that and that's something
that I wish would change in the conversation because yes like if you
look at anybody just in real life like any real life people who have committed
these kind of violent acts like if you look at their history and everything
like that you can look and say oh my god like this person had problems
like we should have done something ahead of time we should have intervened you
know what I mean now this doesn't mean that they had a certain mental illness
that would be diagnosed as per the DSM but but it's safe to say that they were
not in control when they were going through this whole thing at some times
it wasn't just like a brief instance of insanity it was a long ongoing thing if
you look at a lot of these people to who are creating these acts there's a lot
you know traumatic childhood maybe it was even like like what the Joker
trailer is depicting like being bullied and beat up and all those things none of
these things are justified but like all of these things can take their toll on
your mental health and that's the other thing that upsets me when we're talking
about this sorry I'm on a little bit of a rant right now but people are like
holding the term mental health in this precious little case and it's one of the
reasons why we don't talk about it enough
we need to recognize how these things are impacting realized people and put
our efforts where efforts need to be placed all right
but anyways anyways if you got upset with the Joker trailer calm down it's a
fictional movie and I don't think too many people are gonna be affected by it
alright chill out go watch the flick have a good time it's gonna be okay
let's focus our efforts where they should be focused alright so anyways
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