Speaker 1: Joker is already the most successful October movie release of
Speaker 1: all time. How many Joker movies are we going to
Speaker 1: have to have here? Anyway? Not everybody's happy about the
Speaker 1: successive Joker film critics. Rebecca Ritzl says that she has
Speaker 1: no intention of seeing it. She says the movie has
Speaker 1: crushed the souls of many women who write about film.
Speaker 1: Almost all female film critics have panned the movie. Miss
Speaker 1: Ritzell says female critics are upset that so many Americans
Speaker 1: are going to see Joker. One calls it the most
Speaker 1: depressing film she's ever seen. She says it's humorless, it
Speaker 1: lacks empathy. Another says the movie is marketed to the
Speaker 1: sort of misunderstood adolescents who could potentially become mass shooters.
Speaker 1: Yet the movie is getting great reviews overall. That's because
Speaker 1: male movie critics, who outnumber female film critics by a
Speaker 1: two to one ratio, like it for the most part. Now,
Speaker 1: these guy critics, they don't think the movie is sympathetic
Speaker 1: to the bad guy, and they don't leave it promotes
Speaker 1: violence or anything of the sort. To them, Joker is
Speaker 1: a comic book villain. Their souls are not crushed after
Speaker 1: seeing the movie, and they're not upset that so many
Speaker 1: Americans are going to see it. The moral of the
Speaker 1: story is that in many ways, men and women are different.
Speaker 1: They might even be born that way. And how many
Speaker 1: of you are fed up with comic books being turned
Speaker 1: into movies for crying it? Can we grow up