Chapter 774: Joker (Part 2) PS: There are many plots in this chapter

The highly anticipated *Joker* held its premiere in New York City, the prototype of Gotham City.

However, Miss Luo Quan, as the director and protagonist, did not attend; it was too troublesome to go back and forth, and she also wanted to spend more time with her family.

So this premiere was hosted entirely by the assistant director, plus other minor characters.

But because they weren't particularly famous, compared to other premieres full of stars, *Joker* seemed much more shabby.

But this didn't affect the enthusiasm of DC fans gathering outside the cinema waiting to see the Joker.

They had known about the filming plan from Miss Luo Quan last year, and it was only released now; it could be said to be the movie with the longest time span.

Whether they liked DC or Miss Luo Quan, film fans had long been waiting for it.

At 12:00 midnight, *Joker* was officially released, and film fans rushed into the cinema impatiently.

And in China, Miss Luo Quan's family had just finished lunch, and after coaxing Luo Xi to sleep, the three sat in front of the sofa.

Watching a movie without a big screen is still a bit lacking in atmosphere; fortunately, there is a home theater in the living room, and the projection screen starts to descend automatically after pressing the switch.

Miss Luo Quan connected it to her laptop, and then clicked to play the *Joker* movie sent to her by Warner Bros.

Speaking of which, it was her first time watching a movie she acted in with her family; this feeling was quite wonderful.

Fortunately, except for the darkness around the movie screen, the three of them sat on one sofa each, and they couldn't see each other very clearly, so Miss Luo Quan didn't have any psychological pressure.

After the Warner Bros. opening, the story officially began.

Anna, played by Miss Luo Quan, was sitting in front of the dressing table putting on makeup, and the TV next to her was playing the news.

Because of the large-scale strike of workers, Gotham had been stagnant for more than ten days, garbage was piled up like a mountain on the street because no one cleaned it, shops closed one after another, and violent incidents emerged one after another.

Anna, listening to the news, put on a clown makeup on her face, and then came to a street with people coming and going, raised the advertisement board and started today's work.

She took a job, which was to advertise for a nearby shop.

But because of the teasing of a few street punks, she lost the advertisement board and was beaten to the ground.

The lens gradually raised, and the English word "Joker" appeared on the screen.

The first half of the plot tells the story of Anna's experience.

She lived with her mother since she was a child, and as her mother grew older, her mental state became worse and worse, and she was in a muddled state all day.

And Anna herself also suffered from serious psychological problems and needed to see a psychologist frequently.

In addition, she often couldn't control her loud laughter.

Once she was sitting on the bus with clown makeup, seeing a little boy staring at her, she deliberately made a ghost face to tease him.

As a result, she suddenly fell ill, and laughter burst out of her mouth uncontrollably; the panting mixed in the laughter was like a wail before a person was about to suffocate.

This also made the little boy's mother look at Anna with vigilance, warning her not to harass her son.

Anna took out a card from her pocket, which told about her strange illness, which cleared up the misunderstanding.

This is Anna, an actor who performs everywhere with clown makeup.

She is poor and suffers from discrimination; she is at the bottom of Gotham's society, and anyone can bully her.

But she still has hope for life, and has a dream, which is to be able to board the Gotham TV station's most popular program—the Murray Talk Show, talk and laugh with the host Murray on it, tell the audience the jokes she carefully prepared, and then become famous overnight.

Of course, these are just dreams for now, but she has been working hard in this direction.

However, life is not so beautiful.

Clown Anna's colleague, Randall, heard about her being beaten by punks and gave her a gun for self-defense.

But then he mocked her and another dwarf employee.

Then the boss asked her to find the advertisement board, otherwise she would be fired.

Anna, full of anger, found the advertisement board, but kicked it to pieces in a frenzy.

Then Anna intertwined fantasy and reality, exacerbating her mental problems.

In fantasy, she chatted and chatted with the handsome neighbor boy, and was invited to perform on his talk show small theater.

And the reality is that Anna didn't talk to this neighbor boy, and even followed him all the way, becoming a stalker.

Anna yearned for a romance, but her low self-esteem kept her from speaking up; deep down, she felt she was unworthy of being loved.

As the plot built up to this point, the film reached its first minor climax.

Anna was taking the subway home after work; there were five people in the carriage: a female office worker, a clown wearing makeup, and three Wei En Enterprises employees.

Wei En Enterprises was the company of Gotham City's richest man, Damian Wei En, and Anna's mother had once been an employee there as well.

Those three Wei En Enterprises employees surrounded the female office worker and harassed her; witnessing this, Anna didn't intend to cause trouble, but a sudden onset of her condition made her unable to stop herself from laughing out loud.

This made the three employees feel mocked and angry, and they immediately demanded to know what Anna was laughing at.

But at this moment, Anna could no longer speak; she could only continue to laugh hysterically.

Then, the three employees began to punch and kick Anna.

But this time, Anna did not let herself be slaughtered like she did at the beginning of the film.

She pulled a pistol from her pocket and shot two of them dead on the spot.

The remaining one scrambled out of the carriage in a panic, but Anna caught up to him and fired several more shots, killing him.

After killing them, there was no terror on Anna's face; instead, it was filled with gratification, as if her stress and grievances had been released.

The uncontrollable laughter even stopped, her emotions gradually calmed down, and she even felt a hint of pleasure inside.

This sudden turn of events caused a massive change in Anna's life.

She began to grow confident, and her mental state improved as well.

Even the neighbor who usually didn't pay much attention to her took the initiative to come to her door, and the two seemed to fall in love.

Afterwards, she went on the talk show the boy had invited her to, and with the joke she had carefully prepared, she made everyone in the audience laugh.

Everything seemed to be moving in a good direction, and Anna, having achieved success in both career and love, was full of expectations for the future.

Until her terminally ill mother told her that her father was actually the boss of Wei En Enterprises, Damian Wei En.

This news shocked Anna beyond measure; the next day, she went to Wei En Manor, wanting to get to the bottom of the truth.

However, she didn't see Damian Wei En, but instead met his son, Bruce Wei En, who would later become the world-famous Batman.

Because she had forced the little Batman to laugh by sticking her hand in his mouth, Anna was stopped by the butler, Alfred.

After a conversation between the two, Anna explained her reason for coming, only to be scolded by the butler, who called Anna's mother a delusional lunatic.

Anna angrily grabbed the butler by the throat, but after glancing at Bruce Wei En, she finally let go and fled.

When she returned home, she discovered her mother had suffered a stroke and immediately called an ambulance to take her to the hospital.

During this time, she narrowly avoided police questioning, temporarily clearing herself of suspicion for the previous shooting of the three employees.

A few days later, Anna staked out Damian Wei En, who frequently visited the cinema.

Anna confronted him directly, asking why he had abandoned her and her mother.

But Damian's answer was the same as the butler's; he cursed Anna's mother as a lunatic and even punched Anna hard, warning her to stay away from his son.

Unwilling to give up, Anna went to Arkham Asylum, wanting to find her mother's medical records there.

Things didn't go particularly smoothly; the hospital orderly quickly dug up the old records but didn't intend to hand them all over to Anna.

However, Anna was quick-witted and snatched all the documents away.

After reading through all the materials and understanding the cause and effect, Anna was stunned.

It turned out her mother did indeed suffer from delusions, claiming to have had a relationship with Damian Wei En, when in fact she had been in the hospital the whole time and never had the chance to see that man.

And Anna's mother didn't love her as much as Anna had imagined.

Anna had been violently abused by her mother since childhood, and even her strange illness had been beaten into her by her mother.

In that instant, Anna broke down; she wailed while laughing loudly, and her once bright world plummeted rapidly, becoming dark and despairing.

Returning home, Anna instinctively wanted to seek comfort from her lover.

But the neighbor was full of wariness, as if he didn't know her at all.

Only then did Anna realize that all the previous love had been a fantasy of her own, and the two had never had any interaction at all.

The next day, Anna went to the hospital with a dead heart and smothered her mother to death with a pillow.

Back home, her two colleagues came knocking.

Randall, who had given her the gun, had guessed that she had shot the Wei En Enterprises employees; he questioned her about why she did it and insulted her.

But by now, Anna had no more inhibitions; she pulled out a knife and brutally murdered Randall.

However, even as she was, she still spared the dwarf colleague who had come with him.

Perhaps it was because they were both at the very bottom of society, sharing the same plight.

After the killing, Anna applied clown makeup in her room and walked out the door into the brilliant sunshine.

At this moment, it was as if she had been reborn.

Subsequently, the iconic scene that would go down in film history arrived.

Joker Anna, wearing a wine-red suit, danced on the stairs; her dance was frantic yet full of vitality, and the splashing water sounded like applause and cheers, making her even more excited.

But she hadn't been dancing for long before the two police officers who had been tailing her caught up; seeing this, Anna immediately took off running.

During the chase, just as Anna was about to be caught, a group of citizens wearing clown masks surrounded them and beat the police officers severely.

It turned out these were the impoverished class of Gotham City, whose miserable lives had stripped them of the motivation to work, leading them to take to the streets to protest the capitalists who exploited them.

These events had been presented throughout the film in the form of television news and newspapers.

And Anna, who had previously shot the three Wei En employees, was viewed as a spiritual totem by the commoners because she had been wearing clown makeup at the time.

Everyone was imitating her; Anna had become a hero.

She successfully escaped the pursuit, but it also resulted in the two police officers being severely beaten.

However, up to this point, besides the dwarf, no one knew she was the killer.

She was also invited to participate in her idol Murray's talk show.

That was her ultimate dream and the only meaning left in her life.

She intended to tell a joke on this talk show and then commit suicide by shooting herself, giving everyone a huge scare.

To this end, she rehearsed countless times in her room.

When that night arrived, Anna dressed up for the occasion, viewing this talk show as the most important event of her life.

On stage, Anna chatted happily with Murray as she had wished, and told the joke she had prepared for so long, making all the audience laugh.

This was the most successful performance of her life; the laughter that used to ruin things so often miraculously didn't appear, and everything went smoother than she could have imagined.

However, just as Anna was telling the last joke, she was rebuked by Murray for offending the two police officers who had been severely beaten.

The two got into an argument because of this.

Facing the camera, Anna used a tone of immense hatred to issue an indictment against this world full of oppression and discrimination.

She confessed to the truth of killing the Wei En Enterprises employees and causing the two police officers to be severely injured.

She denounced the capitalists who exploited the commoners and the rich who occupied most of society's resources.

The poor were struggling to survive with everything they had, while these rich people were wallowing in luxury.

Murray, on the other hand, believed that the world wasn't as bad as she imagined and that not everyone lacked compassion.

This remark enraged Anna, and she began to argue loudly with Murray.

Murray mocked Anna and shouted for security, wanting to kick her off the stage.

The background music began to intensify at this moment, the percussion sounding like a march growing louder and louder, as if a wild beast were charging from the depths of the shadows.

Finally unable to bear it any longer, Anna shouted loudly at Murray through angry tears:

"Let me tell you another joke, Murray."

"What happens when you cross a loner who is abandoned by society, treated like trash, and has a mental illness?"

"Let me tell you what happens, you'll die a miserable death!"

After saying this, Anna pulled out her gun and pulled the trigger on Murray.

The bullet exited the barrel and pierced Murray's head; blood splattered all over the plastic panel behind him, and the audience at the scene immediately screamed in panic and fled in all directions.

And Anna, having done all this, was clearly streaming with tears, yet she wore a look of utter satisfaction.

At this moment, Anna had completely transformed.

She became the Joker and was crowned the King of Gotham with the support of countless people.

At the end of the story, the Waynes were shot dead, and Anna received treatment in a mental hospital.

The film ended, and Luo Ni and Mia in the room both let out long sighs of relief.

Before watching the movie, they never dreamed it would be so heavy and dark.

After watching it, the ripples in their hearts didn't subside; instead, they intensified.

And on the foreign internet, the word-of-mouth for "Joker" had already exploded.