The events in Odessa at 28 January 2020

The Joker phenomenon. Reflections on the film and the main character

28 January 2020, 18:30
category: lecture
from 200 to 250 UAH
place: Co-working center "Impact Hub Odessa" (1A Grecheskaya street)

How to make a deep art and box office movie out of a simple comic strip ?! What is needed in order for a tragic film to be liked and disliked by many ?!              Let's find a character that almost everyone knows. It really needs to be recognizable. But it is important to add depth and nagging tragedy to him. And he doesn’t just have to be evil. Not just an antihero. The joker must be evil, which causes sympathy. He must have his own story, in which the Joker is not at all to blame. This world did with the Joker what the Joker would then do with the world. This is what the world is doing with us, but we, by virtue of culture and morality, do not reciprocate. But really want to answer. And the Joker is responsible to the world for us. And we do not remain unrefined. We do not remain lost and alone.              So empathy is born. Although we condemn him.              The Joker laughs when not at all funny. And can’t stop. And many of us often have to smile when there is no strength, no desire for it. But it is important and necessary to do. Otherwise, we will be thrown out and forgotten. Chased out and fired. And so we always remain masked. In the mask of the Joker. The man who laughs.A comic is just a quote. A quote that exists by itself. It is neither part of the text, nor part of the film, nor even part of reality. It was invented, and the one who invented it immediately tried to forget about it, thereby emphasizing its meaninglessness. The comic book author cannot be found, and if found, then let's try to introduce a writer who is proud to have invented a comic book. What should it be ?! Who is he more like: Dostoevsky or the Joker ?!              A comic is a quote and it costs almost nothing. But if we expand the quotation to a work of art: think it over, rethink it, draw it up, we can get not only a metaphor for the Big Bang, but also a metaphor for the modern social structure where we exist. Where names and states are made of nothing. Where people get what they don't deserve. And those who deserve something are put into some kind of meaningless comic book.              And the Joker is an attempt to get out of the comic. And you can overcome the comic only by making an artwork out of it. But for this we need a brilliant actor. We need Joaquin Phoenix.              And what is needed in order to understand: were there any chances for the Joker to live another life ?! What is needed for reflection on what could have changed the judge of the protagonist? What had a significant impact on the personality of the Joker? How can it be diagnosed and is it necessary to do this ?!To answer these questions, it is important to watch a film and come to a lecture by two clinical psychologists and psychotherapists. To try to figure it all out, you need to think about what exactly in the Joker interests. And what catches.              And to understand the Joker is to take off the mask. And get out of the comic strip.              We will talk and analyze. At an interactive lecture.              In February.              Lecturers:              Poverennova Alla: Clinical Psychologist, President of the All-Russia State Pedagogical University, Leading Trainer of the MHI Program, Member of the European Gestalt Therapies Association (EAGT).              Zhilin Mikhail: Master of Clinical Psychology, Master of Philosophy, lecturer of the Department of Practical Psychology, Gestalt therapist, supervisor              Tickets: 200-250 UAH.       Buy online: https://zhilin.pro/event/joker/

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