While I wasn't a fan of the film as you can tell, I don't think it's necessarily the responsibility of a filmmaker/artist to purely please an audience. It's okay to challenge the audience, in fact I think it's important but it's a matter of how well you challenge the audience.
Yeah, that's why I LOVE the movie "Funny Games" (which did the same thing) and actually went out of its way to subvert audience expectations and make the audience complicit and into the movie's true villain. But I feel in Funny Games it really worked and in Joker Deux it really didn't.
We ARE the joke(r) to the filmmakers!
While I wasn't a fan of the film as you can tell, I don't think it's necessarily the responsibility of a filmmaker/artist to purely please an audience. It's okay to challenge the audience, in fact I think it's important but it's a matter of how well you challenge the audience.
Yeah, that's why I LOVE the movie "Funny Games" (which did the same thing) and actually went out of its way to subvert audience expectations and make the audience complicit and into the movie's true villain. But I feel in Funny Games it really worked and in Joker Deux it really didn't.
Yeah, I know what you mean I think Phillips failed to involve the audience like he did in the first film which made his commentary run flat