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At the moment he kicked open the door of the office building, the light outside shines pure white in the screen. The shot of Arthur in a vehicle taken from outside is also repeated three times in the same composition. I have found three important motifs that repeatedly appear in 'Joker'. We already have loads of articles and information about this movie available. the office door. Repeated motif In classical music, the smallest unit of a melody is called a motif. But you would be left with no impression because it is just blank there. When he was fired from the job, he gained freedom at the cost of despair. When he suffocates her with a pillow to death, the sunlight comes in from the window behind his shoulders. Shots that deliver meanings more powerfully than languages In photographs and movies, composition and light are important elements that determine the nature of the scene. Bus window in the daytime Subway window at night Police car running through the riot JOKER Warner Bros. Just a cartoon. It was difficult for me to think that they can deliver meanings more powerfully than languages can do. The following are some of them; Taxi Driver.{/INSERTKEYS}{/PARAGRAPH} What symbolized by the three motifs What is making these motifs noteworthy is that they indicate substantial meanings despite that the motifs themselves are not the building blocks of the story. Even I didn't know if I really existed. However, 'Joker' has proven that elements of an image can be a motif that has a more profound meaning than language can do, when it is structured carefully and precisely. From alienation, despair, and to the dazzling dream. And until a little while ago it was like nobody ever saw me. They represent his fate that he could not get away from. The pure white in a frame is so bright that your eyes would be caught with it. For one good hour, I could not find any words. The moment the movie started, it had me. And at the moment the dazzle seen from the window grows to burst, the screen that was isolating him from the world is shattered. We consider what photographic images can express is just an indefinite impression. The pure white on the screen symbolizes the freedom that he gains at the cost of despair. I was completely wrong. The movie made me realize that light and compositions can project meanings more explicitly than language can do. As if I were among the mob. The feeling of being left out from his own life. A group of motifs will make the main melody called a theme. {PARAGRAPH}{INSERTKEYS}I am Joker. It completely knocked me down. Police car window through which he looks at the dazzles in the rioting town where a dazzling dream is about to begin, JOKER Warner Bros. And Arthur looking out from the vehicle window indicates that he is left out from his own life and the world. It was so overwhelming. Let me touch upon the references and homages in this movie, although many articles have already pointed them out. He has swallowed another despair and gained freedom. A few guys of the mob pull out Arthur in a faint from the broken window or the shattered screen. Subway window at night symbolizing his deep despair that does not find any way out. We can find a few such significant shots in this movie, which can be called motifs in music. Some important motifs may appear repeatedly in different forms throughout a composition. But still, I was compelled to write something about it, because I was so deeply surprised and impressed as a photographer. The scenery seen from the windows changes: from the TV screen that he was only looking at blankly to his unavoidable destiny. The halation of this light is also in pure white. This flash light is related to the next motif, too. That is what the shots of his looking gloomily out from the window represent. Moreover, the contrast throughout the movie is controlled low so as to induce the atmosphere in early 80s. Words of Arthur, from the final script of "Joker" 1. When creating works with a theme of personal, earnest matter, we would be faced with an issue of abstraction, because an image would project the scene that I have experienced, but never capture the deep emotion that I have felt. Until I watched this movie, Joker. Finally, he awakens and rises to the stage of the world, to his real life, as Joker, The King of Comedy. When he kicks it open, the pure white light emerges. Each of them is repeated three times. JOKER Warner Bros. Let me say for now that these motifs characterize the evolvements in the internal world of Arthur, the main character. We can find homages to a few specific movies of the era. Therefore, it tends to be avoided to allocate a large area to the pure white. Accordingly, the brightness of highlight in this movie is also controlled lower than in average movies.