Twitter Might Light on Fire If 'Joker' Wins Best Picture

We here at Cosmopolitan are absolutely obsessed with movies, but we get that you’re a busy person, and it’s hard to see all the films that are going to be “important” in any given year. In this series, Lowkey Highbrow, we’re giving you the basic gist on every one of those pictures you probably should have seen, but never got around to. When your friend inevitably throws that Oscars watch party, we’re here to help you scam your way into sounding like the smartest person in the room.

The Joker movie is, if nothing else, a very polarizing film. It serves as the origin story for the Joker character, Arthur Fleck (played by Joaquin Phoenix), who eventually becomes the main villain in the Batman stories. Arthur works as a clown-for-hire in Gotham City, but he wants to be a comedian, and he becomes increasingly unhappy with the way he feels society has treated him. Eventually, he shoots and kills a few finance bros on a train after they beat him up, and a star villain is born. The film ends with Arthur inciting a full riot in Gotham City.

The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival this past summer, and it won the top prize there, but the reviews were… mixed. A lot of critics were afraid the film would inspire violence. We’ll get into that more later. The movie made a killing at the box office, though. Like, worldwide it’s sitting at more than $1 billion. For reference, Green Book, last year’s Best Picture winner, made $330 million worldwide.

I saw the movie the first weekend it came out, and considering all the talk of potential violence at showings, which the military issued a warning about, sitting in the theater was really nerve-wracking, which I wrote about at the time. It made it really hard to enjoy the actual movie because I was busy jumping every time someone opened the theater door. But, I hate to admit it, I thought the movie was pretty good.

Now, it’s up for Best Picture at the Oscars. This movie is problematic for a lot of reasons, so if it wins, there will be a certain portion of the internet that will probably be up in arms. Here’s what you need to know about both sides.

Why people would be pumped if it won:

Why people would be pissed if it won:

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